The Business of Magazines

[Conbothsides]

Is this the aforementioned new Interview?

ebay.com/itm/Interview-Magazine-Spring-2018/253447363226?hash=item3b02a3da9a:g:NyoAAOSwc3RakJH7

 

[WeberFanatic]

Yes, that's it. Still $12 but actually worth it now lol. Talked to the shop owner saying it will still be 10 issues a year. And there isn't a February issue. Contents are Kaia by Lindbergh, Versace Special by Demarchelier, Iman by Slimane and lots more I can't think of since I didn't buy. Also a beauty and fashion story by Sims. Will be waiting for my subscription

 

[Benn98]

Who is on the cover?

 

[Rigida]

Who is on the cover?

I think it's Letitia Wright?

 

[RanThe]

Who is on the cover?

I think it’s Mayowa Nicholas.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Relaunch of Vogue Mexico in 3 days

Camila Cabello is on the cover, which is funny since just the other day i thought how good VM has been in supporting the models for their covers. So not the best start of the new redesign launch.

Vogue Arabia also seems to be doing a re-design for their annviersary March issue.

 

[Benn98]

Peter Brant hasn’t been sending rent checks for magazine’s office

By Oli Coleman and Emily Smith
February 21, 2018 | 9:57pm

Billionaire Peter M. Brant seems to be having a little trouble paying the rent this month.

We’re exclusively told that the staff at Brant Publications — his business that owns the legendary Interview magazine, as well as a set of art titles — were booted from their swank Soho offices this week because the landlords haven’t been getting their checks from Brant.

“Marshals showed up and just kicked everyone out,” we’re told.

But sources say that the magazines — including Antiques and Art in America, as well as Web site ArtNews and the famed Interview, which was founded by Andy Warhol in 1969 — aren’t forever doomed.

They’ll be back up and running as soon as the missing money is coughed up, we are assured.

In a statement, Brant’s daughter and president of Interview, Kelly Brant, told Page Six: “We have been working with the landlord on resolving differences regarding a new short-term lease agreement at 110 Greene St., which we hope will be completed soon. In the long term, Brant Publications will be moving to another space later this year.”

It’s unclear what’s causing the kerfuffle, but it seems unlikely that the paper-production heir is short on money.

Brant — whose colorful sons with model Stephanie Seymour, Harry and Peter Jr., have become notorious on the party scene — has a legendary art collection that includes what Artspace once called a “massive trove of Warhols” as well as works by Jeff Koons, *Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.

They’re housed at the Brant Foundation in Greenwich, Conn.

Interview mag tangled in multimillion-dollar lawsuit with former exec

By Oli Coleman
February 24, 2018 | 4:35pm

Legendary magazine Interview is in the midst of a crisis.

After we reported on Wednesday that the title — which was founded by Andy Warhol in 1969 — had been kicked out of its offices because of missing rent, now Page Six has learned it is locked in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit with a longtime senior executive.

Deborah Blasucci — who worked for the magazine for some 30 years — is suing the magazine’s owner, mogul and art collector Peter M. Brant and his daughter, Interview president Kelly Brant, claiming they fired her because she “made too much money.”

Blasucci, who,had at various times been president, executive VP and chief operating officer of BMP Media Holdings, which publishes Interview as well as Art In America and ARTnews among others, was fired in July 2016.

The suit, filed in November 2016, alleges that Kelly, as well as other Brant family members, “each told Ms. Blasucci in separate conversations that their father Peter M. Brant thought she made too much money.”

As well as what was — given her long tenure at the company — likely a hefty salary, the company also paid Blasucci’s rent and owed her a lump-sum severance package, plus a bonus, if she was fired “without cause.”

The suit alleges that Peter and Kelly instead pounced on a painful back operation that Blasucci underwent in February 2016 by claiming that she had “failed to ‘render services’ ” while she recovered — even though Blasucci claims she worked for them even while she was in severe pain. She alleges the Brants cruelly claimed they didn’t owe her the severance because her supposed absence meant they could fire her “with cause.”

Meanwhile all the Interview and Brant art-publication staffers are still waiting to hear if they can return to work and get back into their Soho offices seized by marshals last week over nonpayment of rent.

Kelly Brant claimed the offices had been closed because of “differences regarding a new short-term lease.”

Sources: PageSix.com

 

[Benn98]

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: British Vogue editor's 'tears' as Dame Anna Wintour meets the Queen without him

By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail
Published: 02:14 GMT, 22 February 2018 | Updated: 07:52 GMT, 22 February 2018


The unexpected attendance of the Queen at a London Fashion Week show this week was an impressive coup for U.S. Vogue editor, Dame Anna Wintour — one that reduced the most powerful man in British fashion to tears.

While jaws dropped at the sight of Her Majesty sitting on the front row at the Richard Quinn show on Tuesday, one conspicuous absentee was Edward Enninful, who succeeded Alexandra Shulman as editor of British Vogue last year.

I can reveal that the 46-year-old, who received an OBE from Princess Anne in 2016 for his contribution to the fashion industry, was deliberately kept in the dark by Wintour, who, in cahoots with Caroline Rush, the chief executive of the British Fashion Council, secretly arranged the attendance of the Queen.

‘Edward was in tears when he found out,’ reveals my fashion source. ‘He had no idea that it was happening.’

Enninful was not even in the country at the time because he had flown out to Italy for Milan Fashion Week, which started on Tuesday.

It is not clear when exactly he learned that he’d missed the Queen’s first — and possibly only — fashion show, which she attended to present the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design. But at the time it started at 4pm, he posted a photo on Instagram of him meeting the Duchess of Cambridge at Buckingham Palace on Monday.

Edward Ennifield with Anna Wintour. Enninful was not even in the country at the time because he had flown out to Italy for Milan Fashion Week

‘It was an honour to meet Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge at Buckingham Palace, for the Commonwealth Fashion Exchange,’ he captioned it.

Wintour, famously the ice queen of the fashion world, also failed to forewarn Vogue’s international editor Suzy Menkes OBE as well as Jonathan Newhouse, chairman and chief executive of Conde Nast International in London, the company that publishes Vogue.

‘None of them knew about it. They had all flown to Milan for Milan Fashion week so they weren’t even in London when it happened,’ adds my source. ‘To say they are incandescent is an understatement.’

It is not the first time that Dame Anna, 68, has pulled rank on her colleagues in London.

In 2011, she co-hosted a London Fashion Week Party at No 10 with the then PM’s wife Samantha Cameron. There were raised eyebrows that Mrs Cameron did not choose the editor of British Vogue at the time, Alexandra Shulman, to be her co-hostess, as London Fashion Week was on Shulman’s home turf.

Source: Dailymail.co.uk

 

[tigerrouge]

What way do you want it, Edward? First you make a big deal about there being no more posh girls working in the office, but now there's tears at not being within fifty feet of The Queen? Are you New Establishment or Anti-Establishment, or is it a case of whatever suits you in the moment?

Ego is everything in the world of fashion, and Wintour must be racking up the resentment at some rate. Is she following the business philosophy of "the more people hate me, the better I must be doing at my job"?

Although the people buying the magazine because Taylor Swift or an insta-model is on the cover don't really care who's meeting The Queen, and sales figures must still count for something, in the end.

 

[Benn98]

It was rather crafty of Anna to keep this under wraps. She made sure nobody would upstage this iconic moment. Really can't wait for her to just take over Si's position and leave Vogue because this is clearly what she's after. More power!

 

[Miss Dalloway]

^I expect this to happen this year, probably after her 30th aniversary issue. It really is a perfect position for Wintour, she obviously done everything she could at Vogue, and it really feels like its time to pass over the torch to someone else. (that she will personally pick, of course)

But i don't believe for a second Edward cried, that is just pathetic SS nonsense for Daily (Trash) Mail.

 

[8eight]

Rumours that the instyle uk website is to close...

 

[MissMagAddict]

But i don't believe for a second Edward cried, that is just pathetic SS nonsense for Daily (Trash) Mail.

There’s no crying in Vogue

 

[Miss Dalloway]

^

 

[Royal-Galliano]

Condé Nast Launches Vogue in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

The magazine's print and digital debut will mark Condé Nast International's second Vogue rollout in Eastern Europe this year.


PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Condé Nast International (CNI) is launching Vogue in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Published under a license agreement with V24 Media, the inaugural Czech print edition will debut in August this year with the September issue, alongside a digital platform.
The print magazine will be published in Czech (allowing for both Czech and Slovakian consumers to read the magazine) and the majority of revenues will supposedly come from print, but "events will also be a strong source of revenues," Karina Dobrotvorskaya, president and editorial director, brand development at CNI, told BoF. While V24 Media co-founders Michaela Seewald and Fabrice Biundo will spearhead the strategic vision for the magazine, key editorial appointments are yet to be confirmed.
The announcement closely follows the launch of Vogue Poland, which debuted earlier this month with its March issue. The Czech Republic and Slovakia edition will be the title's 24th.

businessoffashion.com

 

[Srdjan]

Countries like Poland and Czech Rep certainly do deserve their own editions of Vogue, but Conde Nast looks so sl*tty nowadays, giving the license to anyone who offers a little bit of money. Remember when Emirates couldn't get the license for years...?
That is my sentiment towards CN, but on the other side, I'm very glad new titles and editions are appearing in a time where print is problematic.

 

[Benn98]

Hold up, so Czech Republic and Slovakia gets a Vogue but nothing for Africa, and South America must make do with one? I mean, who's next, Austria? I frequently travel to Africa and I'd say they should at least consider one for South Africa or Nigeria. Maybe British Vogue can do a supplement or special edition for one of these two countries, just like Brazil does with that odd Miami supplement. It clearly seems the requirements shifted from 'are there a huge luxury market in the country' to 'do people actually buy magazines in the country.'

They're going about this willy-nilly. Let Poland serve the rest of the EE countries first, and build up a reputation. I'm sure Vogue Australia gets a chunk of their readers from the Kiwis and other neighbours. Same goes for Germany with Austria and Schweiz, the Netherlands with Belgium etc etc. They're stacking the odds up real high for Vogue Poland, and it's too soon.

 

[mikel]

Hold up, so Czech Republic and Slovakia gets a Vogue but nothing for Africa, and South America must make do with one? I mean, who's next, Austria? I frequently travel to Africa and I'd say they should at least consider one for South Africa or Nigeria. Maybe British Vogue can do a supplement or special edition for one of these two countries, just like Brazil does with that odd Miami supplement. It clearly seems the requirements shifted from 'are there a huge luxury market in the country' to 'do people actually buy magazines in the country.'

They're going about this willy-nilly. Let Poland serve the rest of the EE countries first, and build up a reputation. I'm sure Vogue Australia gets a chunk of their readers from the Kiwis and other neighbours. Same goes for Germany with Austria and Schweiz, the Netherlands with Belgium etc etc. They're stacking the odds up real high for Vogue Poland, and it's too soon.

It’s rather difficult for Vogue Poland to serve the rest of the region because of the language.

 

[8eight]

Glamour UK relaunches this week. Rumours that Zoella/a blogger is on the cover. Which makes sense if there are rebranding as digital only.

 

[Royal-Galliano]

Let Poland serve the rest of the EE countries first, and build up a reputation. I'm sure Vogue Australia gets a chunk of their readers from the Kiwis and other neighbours. Same goes for Germany with Austria and Schweiz, the Netherlands with Belgium etc etc. They're stacking the odds up real high for Vogue Poland, and it's too soon.

But this is virtually impossible. Despite a popular impression, Eastern Europe is a very heterogenic environment: language, culture and taste-wise. So the idea of Poland being a sort of leader of "the group" is ridiculous.

In my opinion, Vogue will serve as a platform for various advertising projects and hopefully as a playground for local creatives. Question is, is Vogue as brand to maintain its iconic status, when made locally by people previously associated with other titles? And is there really a base of people interested in actually buying the magazine?