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Vogue magazine to reduce print issues to 10 editions per year

The future of printed fashion magazines has once again come under scrutiny, as Vogue, arguably the world’s most recognisable style publication, is to shrink its schedule to 10 issues per year. The number of publications will be reduced from 11, a schedule Conde Nast has adhered to over the past three years, prior to being a monthly release. With...

Jan 16, 2023

Fashion

A Vogue cover with Ukraine’s First Lady Zelenska garners criticism

Vogue has long been a magazine to feature political first ladies and leaders. American Vogue covers, by example, have featured most of its first families, from Dr Jill Biden and Michelle Obama to the debut of its first photographed political spouse in 1929, Lou Henry Hoover, the wife of then president Henry Hoover. Controversially, Melania Trump...

Aug 1, 2022

Fashion

Condé Nast to cease publishing Vogue Russia and other local titles

Condé Nast is to cease publishing Vogue Russia and all its local portfolio titles after new censorship laws came into effect. In a memo last week CEO Roger Lynch also cited the “senseless war” in the Ukraine as the reason to shutter operations. Vogue Russia had been suspended since March, just like many international businesses which halted...

Apr 22, 2022

Fashion

Condé Nast to suspend Russian publications

Condé Nast, the international publisher of fashion publications including Vogue, GQ and Glamour, is to suspend its Russian publishing operations. The media giant joins a host of news outlets, magazines, online and video news stations that are forced to pause reporting under Russia’s new stringent propaganda laws. In a memo Condé Nast CEO Roger...

Mar 9, 2022

PeopleFeatured

André Leon Talley, the pioneering American fashion journalist, dies at 73

André Leon Talley, the pioneering American fashion journalist, has died at the age of 73. A giant in terms of persona, industry presence and height – he was 6 feet, 6 inches tall -Talley died after a heart attack, as was first reported by Air Mail, the digital publication founded by Graydon Carter. Talley spent decades at Vogue, where he was the...

Jan 19, 2022

Fashion

Condé Nast to launch Vogue Phillippines

Condé Nast has launched Vogue Philippines, the 29th edition of the global fashion magazine. The title will launch with English-language print, digital and social platforms in September 2022, and will be published under license agreement with MEGA Global Licensing. Inc. “We’re thrilled to launch our 29th edition of Vogue in the Philippines, a...

Jan 10, 2022

People

Former US Vogue editor-in-chief, Grace Mirabella, has died

Grace Mirabella, an American fashion journalist who helmed American Vogue from 1971 to 1988, has died at the age of 91. Mirabella, the predecessor to Anna Wintour, created a more modern magazine, reflective of the 70s, after she was promoted to editor-in-chief after the flamboyant years of Diana Vreeland. The seventies were a time of economic...

Dec 27, 2021

Report

Condé Nast names new chief business officer of style division

Elizabeth Webbe Lunny has been named Condé Nast’s new chief business officer of the company’s style division. She succeeds Susan Plagemann, the former publisher of Vogue, who recently exited the company after 11 years. In her new role, Lunny will oversee fashion and luxury advertising and lead the business strategy for Vogue, GQ, and Vanity Fair...

Nov 12, 2021

Fashion

Vogue Paris rebrands as Vogue France

A Vogue by any other name would still be as fashionable. Condé Nast has announced that Vogue Paris, as it was known since its inception in 1920, will now be Vogue France. Vogue France’s new head of editorial content, Eugénie Trochu, made the announcement via her Instagram page. She believes that this new title will be more reflective of the...

Oct 28, 2021

Schools

AMD graduate Kerstin Weng announced as new Head of Editorial Content at Vogue Germany

Congratulations Kerstin Weng! The AMD graduate, currently Editor-in-Chief of Burda Instyle, is moving to Condé Nast Verlag in the coming months and will succeed interim head Stephanie Neureuter. As Head of Editorial Content, her official title, Weng will be responsible for editorial content, strategy as well as vision of German Vogue. She will...

Oct 27, 2021

Fashion

At Condé Nast, only fully vaccinated models can grace its covers

Condé Nast, publisher of fashion stalwarts Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair and Tatler, has implemented a policy that only fully vaccinated models can be featured on its covers and in its magazines. This is in addition to regulations that all employees must be vaccinated, now including talent, freelancers, consultants and any service providers involved on...

Oct 20, 2021

People

Vanessa Kingori appointed chief business officer for style and Vogue European business adviser at Condé Nast

Condé Nast has promoted Vanessa Kingori to chief business officer for style and Vogue European business adviser after helping to achieve unprecedented revenue growth at the fashion title. Kingori was previously the publishing director of Vogue and prior to that at GQ, another Condé Nast publication. Kingori, who is from Kenyan and British...

Oct 1, 2021