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	<title>Observer &#187; Reversal of Fortune: Vanity Fair Employees Brown Bag It</title>
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		<title>Reversal of Fortune: Vanity Fair Employees Brown Bag It</title>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:00:20 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Matt Haber</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/lunch021009.jpg?w=300&h=222" />By now, <a href="http://www.observer.com/2008/media/empty-nast-syndrome-conde-nast-cutting-5-percent-all-magazine-staffs-future-mens-vogue-do">Condé Nast's belt-tightening</a> is well known, but with the recent <a href="http://www.observer.com/2009/media/domino-falls-cond-nast-closes-shelter-book">shuttering of <em>Domino</em></a> and widespread concern of a so-called &quot;<a href="http://www.observer.com/2009/media/will-there-be-domino-effect-conde-nast">Domino effect</a>&quot; at the magazine company, just how bad are things over at 4 Times Square?</p>
<p>Pretty bad, apparently. According to a shocking report on <em>Vanity Fair</em>'s Web site by Jessica Flint and Elizabeth Hurlbut, <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/style/2009/02/the-brown-bag-diaries.html"><em>Vanity Fair</em> employees are being forced to brown bag it</a>. </p>
<p>Coming only a week after it was revealed that the magazine <a href="http://www.observer.com/2009/media/so-much-change-vanity-fair-uses-2007-obama-cover-march-2009-issue">reused its July 2007 cover of Barack Obama</a>, it seems like life at the magazine is growing bleaker by the week. Take a moment the think about this fact: <em>The staff of the world's glossiest magazine is bringing lunch to work</em>. </p>
<p>Then again, it might not be so bad over there: The bags used to transport the lunches—everything from &quot;Last night's home-cooked meal&quot; to (gasp!) &quot;Bread and a can of tuna&quot;—are from Louis Vuitton, Missoni, and Prada. One staffer is even wiping crumbs away from his or her face with a napkin from the St. Regis. </p>
<p>But the real question is: Did they have to lug these bags themselves (tuna cans are heavy!) or could they <a href="http://www.observer.com/2008/media/lost-world-remembering-cond-nast-when-it-sizzled">have them Fed-Exed to their desks</a>?</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/lunch021009.jpg?w=300&h=222" />By now, <a href="http://www.observer.com/2008/media/empty-nast-syndrome-conde-nast-cutting-5-percent-all-magazine-staffs-future-mens-vogue-do">Condé Nast's belt-tightening</a> is well known, but with the recent <a href="http://www.observer.com/2009/media/domino-falls-cond-nast-closes-shelter-book">shuttering of <em>Domino</em></a> and widespread concern of a so-called &quot;<a href="http://www.observer.com/2009/media/will-there-be-domino-effect-conde-nast">Domino effect</a>&quot; at the magazine company, just how bad are things over at 4 Times Square?</p>
<p>Pretty bad, apparently. According to a shocking report on <em>Vanity Fair</em>'s Web site by Jessica Flint and Elizabeth Hurlbut, <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/style/2009/02/the-brown-bag-diaries.html"><em>Vanity Fair</em> employees are being forced to brown bag it</a>. </p>
<p>Coming only a week after it was revealed that the magazine <a href="http://www.observer.com/2009/media/so-much-change-vanity-fair-uses-2007-obama-cover-march-2009-issue">reused its July 2007 cover of Barack Obama</a>, it seems like life at the magazine is growing bleaker by the week. Take a moment the think about this fact: <em>The staff of the world's glossiest magazine is bringing lunch to work</em>. </p>
<p>Then again, it might not be so bad over there: The bags used to transport the lunches—everything from &quot;Last night's home-cooked meal&quot; to (gasp!) &quot;Bread and a can of tuna&quot;—are from Louis Vuitton, Missoni, and Prada. One staffer is even wiping crumbs away from his or her face with a napkin from the St. Regis. </p>
<p>But the real question is: Did they have to lug these bags themselves (tuna cans are heavy!) or could they <a href="http://www.observer.com/2008/media/lost-world-remembering-cond-nast-when-it-sizzled">have them Fed-Exed to their desks</a>?</p>
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