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Conde Nast Big Wigs Serve Fashion’s Favorite Food At Holiday Party
For the first time in three years, editors and executives at everyone’s favorite luxury magazine publisher Conde Nast felt confident enough in their bottom lines that they all went to the Four Seasons for a holiday party! And they served industry gossip and corporate intrigue right alongside fashion’s favorite food, chicken pot pie.
Condé Nast Is Finally Coming To A Theater (And/Or TV) Near You!
Condé Nast is all about diversifying as of late. The magazine giant has dipped its toe into the restaurant world, but its banking on its new entertainment division to bring in the big bucks.
Fashion Face Off: Vogue Editors Threaten To Skip Milan Fashion Week
The organizers of New York Fashion Week are about to cause an international crisis, y’all. A scheduling conflict of massive proportions could very well disrupt the already tenuous balance that holds shows in New York, London, Milan and Paris together — and one fashion magazine big wig isn’t helping make the situation any better.
Condé Nast Expands Its Restaurant (Yes, Restaurant) Empire
Condé Nast needs to chill it with the brand dilution extension. Last year the publishing giant opened up a Vogue Cafe, GQ Bar, and Tatler Club in Moscow, and now they’re expanding further.
10 Important Things We Learned Last Week: August 7-13
This was the week Justin Bieber wore an offensive t-shirt, Missoni for Target images were released, and Anna Wintour had dinner with Barack Obama. There was also craziness surrounding the Conde Nast elevator Twitter account and the last days of the Alexander McQueen exhibit.
@CondeElevator, Conde Nast’s Most Successful Tweeter, Shuts Down
After less than a week online and only 35 tweets, the account @CondeElevator announced Thursday morning that it will stop tweeting out the hilarious and slightly out-of-touch things overheard in the elevators of the Conde Nast building.
The Hunt For The Genius Behind @CondeElevator Has Begun
Just four days after a very brave soul started tweeting out snippets of conversations overheard in the Conde Nast elevator, a dogged search for the social media maverick behind the @CondeElevator account has begun. They started with a tweet about food, yesterday they quoted Anna Wintour, and today they have more than 36,000 followers. No wonder people are, well, wondering.
Oleg Cassini’s Widow Sues Vanity Fair & Condé Nast For $10 Million
Marianne Nestor-Cassini isn’t related to Veruca Salt Cecilia Cassini, but she is the widow of Jackie Kennedy fave Oleg Cassini. And she is one litigious lady.
Conde Nast Paid This Guy $8 Million For One Email
There are payroll mistakes and then there are payroll mistakes, and Conde Nast, which creates of some of the most important magazines in the fashion industry, made one doozy of a payroll mistake late last year. With just one email, a Texan man duped the Vogue publisher into diverting $8 million in payments that should have gone to its printing press directly to his bank account.
Style.com To Launch Glossy Print Edition This Fall
We’re used to print magazines adopting digital platforms, but websites getting print editions? That’s pretty much of unheard of in today’s media climate. The people over at Condé Nast‘s Fairchild Fashion Group surely don’t think print is dead though, and they’re launching a print spinoff of Style.com to prove it.
Who’s Going To Lead The Conde Nast Fashion School?
Conde Nast produces some of the best fashion magazines in the world, so why can’t it produce some of the best fashion in the world, too? That seems to be the goal of the newly announced Conde Nast International School of Fashion and Design.
Thanks To Hearst, Mags Now Realize Overspending Is Bad
Hearst, which will be the country’s second largest magazine publisher by the time it completes its deal to buy Elle and other titles from Lagardere, managed to make it through economic horror by continuously keeping both its budgets and its staffs leaner than most androgynous male models — and keeping its nose out of the air. And now, it’s doing what Time Inc. and Conde Nast can’t even think about doing: spending over a billion dollars on new acquisitions.
W Picks Up Vanity Fair‘s Trashed Rooney Mara Cover
We always wondered how magazines within the same publishing houses avoided putting the same celeb on the same cover in the same month. And we found out this morning that at Conde Nast, it’s Graydon Carter‘s way or the highway.
Food-Focused Corporate Changes At Conde Nast
Conde Nast‘s food group is experiencing a little bit of a human resources extravaganza. In a really interesting dance between the fashion and food publishing worlds, Carol Smith (who left Elle to direct the group in April), has been let go. Meanwhile GQ style editor Adam Rappaport will replace Barbara Fairchild as editor-in-chief of Bon Appetit.
The Digital Sales Shake-Up At Conde Nast
Conde Nast’s print publications now have a little more control over their corresponding websites. WWD reports that the bulk of the sales and marketing efforts for sites like GQ.com and Allure.com has transferred from Conde Nast Digital to individual magazine publishers.
Style.com Splits From Conde Nast, Joins Fairchild Group
If any of you were still worried that there was going to be some kind of all-out street fight between the editors at Style.com and the people who manage the newly minted Vogue.com, you can now rest easy. Style.com is making a move from Conde Nast Digital to the Fairchild Fashion Group.
CONFIRMED: Style.com Reality Show Coming To TV
Style.com is indeed getting its own reality show. It’s already filming in the office of Dirk Standen (left). But they still have to cast a female love interest for writer Darrell Hartman, and they’re not sure which network is going to air the show. Still, it should be tons of fun to watch.
RUMOR MILL: Is Style.com Working On A Reality Show?
Word has it that Style.com, the erstwhile online home of Vogue and W, is working on a reality show. But instead of the scripted fakeness introduced by Teen Vogue on The Hills and perfected by Elle on The City, it’s said that the Style.com show will feature people who actually work at the magazine.
WATCH: Tim Gunn Compares Conde Nast To ‘Monkey House’
Tim Gunn just gets better and better, braver and braver, every media stop he makes. Last night, he joined Jon Stewart on The Daily Show to discuss his book and, naturally, the first thing Stewart asked about was that Anna Wintour-being-carried-down-the-stairs-by-five-bodyguards story. But this time Gunn widened the scope of his scrutiny and took the entire Conde Nast tower at 4 Times Square to task.
French Vogue Turns 90 In Spectacular Style
We love birthdays here at Styleite, especially landmark birthdays that get celebrated with fabulous parties that have all of our favorite people in attendance. So it follows that next to our own birthday, French Vogue‘s 90th birthday — which Carine Roitfeld and company will celebrate with the October issue — would be our favorite birthday of the year.




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