Here’s a fun one to close the week out with: We recently discovered the unequivocal joy that is Vanity Fair‘s fashion market director, Michael Carl, on Twitter. He is, in a word, fantastic. This is also the most public insight into the inner-workings of Conde Nast since the world has been without Conde Elevator. Read More
On Thursday night, the newest editor-in-chief in the Conde Nast pantheon, Brides editor, Anne Fulenwider posed for a photograph with her new bosses, executives John Bellando and Jill Bright, and her husband Bryan Blatstein. As they arranged themselves, a drink slipped out of hand, shattering upon impact and splashing the celebrants with champagne. Read More
As the new Kindle Fire tablet is shipped out to Amazon customers this week, Condé Nast has made its titles available on the Fire’s top competitor, Barnes and Noble’s NOOK Tablet, and its predecessor, the NOOK Color.
Today president Bob Sauerberg announced that 17 Condé Nast titles will be available on NOOK Read More
Tired of the fluffy celebrity profiles clogging up your favorite magazines?
If the new Details is any indication, the celebrity obsession could finally be waning. So could the idea that there needs to be content inside the magazine that somehow justifies the cover choice. Read More
Dawn Ostroff, who recently stepped down as president of The CW, was appointed president of Condé Nast Entertainment, Condé Nast president Robert A. Sauerberg, Jr. announced today.
Her newly created position involves development, creation, production and distribution of multimedia content for the magazine publisher’s existing brands.
“There is an enormous, untapped opportunity at Condé Nast to Read More
If you go to 5 Baltschug Street in Moscow, Russia, you’ll see a 17th Century building with Maybachs and Bentleys lying idly nearby, all waiting for the men they drive around to return from a certain smoke-filled lounge. It’s a place where the rich men of that city can enjoy cocktails and bottles, all while Read More
Things are looking up, up, up at the World Trade Center—not even Hurricane Irene could slow down preparations for 9/11—but who ever imagined it could go from tragedy to punch line? That’s what Michael Gross, who has avoided the site for years, finds in his monthly Crain’s column. Read More
Does not reading Vogue mean the terrorists will have won? Read More
The fall of @condeelevator was less an implosion than an abdication: @condeelevator2 has gone on a follow-spree, hoping that its promise of more maybe-real overheards will bring some anonymous copy-editor or disconnected teen a glimmer of webfame. Here’s a field guide to all the Twitter accounts @condeelevator made happen.
Following: 66 (including the Read More
Lucky style editor John Jannuzzi is not the anonymous author of the now-defunct @CondeElevator twitter, as the Daily Beast reported yesterday.
“I can confirm that John is not the creator of the Twitter handle @CondeElevator,” Conde Spokesperson Beth Jacobson told The Observer.
After a couple of mildly irritated tweets, Mr. Jannuzzi published a good-humored denial on Lucky’s website.
“According to The Daily Beast, sources say disciplinary action is only hours away and I’m shaking in my Tretorns,” he wrote.
“On a personal note, according to another tipster, I’m ‘not particularly well known’–I’ll nurse my wounded ego later.” Read More
