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By Daniel D'Addario 8/15/12 8:58am

Fall In! We Devour 2,754 Pages of September Issues

For fashion editors, all roads lead to September: this month’s rag mags, engorged with advertisements, represent the triumph of the hypercapitalist ethos, the huge and the loud. Read More

By Matt Chaban 2/09/11 6:42pm

Manhattan Transfers

An InStyle-ish Apartment: Connie Anne Phillips Buys Gino’s Old Home

Two years ago, Connie Anne Phillips left Vogue, where she had been Tom Florio’s No. 2 for years, to helm rival glossy InStyle. Now, she has found a suitably stylish home to call all her own, as well.

Ms. Phillips paid $1.6 million for the one-bedroom, two-bathroom co-op near the top of 180 East Read More

By Zeke Turner 6/17/10 10:03pm

The Future

Squeals, Buzz and Barcodes as Magazine Types Gather for Technology Show and Tell

Adobe senior business development manager Gary Cossimini had 35 minutes yesterday to show off his company’s New York Times reader at the Magazine Publishers of America technology conference, “The Technology of Magazine Content: From Augmented Reality to Tablets.”

The room was peppered with representatives from magazines, media companies and ad agencies. Some Read More

By Zeke Turner 5/21/10 5:23pm

America's Next Top Magazine Ad Sales

With Carol Smith at Condé, Elle Can’t Compete

While Ariel Foxman’s InStyle races ahead of Vogue in ad pages and apps, Elle magazine is falling behind its competition. Robbie Myers’ magazine is in third place after the first half of the year.

Keith Kelly writes this morning that Elle was handicapped by the departure of chief brand officer Carol Read More

By Zeke Turner 5/20/10 1:37pm

Races

InStyle Outfoxes Vogue, Elle in Ad Sales; Foxman Leads the Charge to the iPad

Ariel Foxman’s InStyle beat Vogue and every other fashion title in ad pages in the first half of 2010, and now Mr. Foxman is planning to beat his competition to the iPad as well.

On Tuesday night Mr. Foxman announced that he plans to launch an InStyle iPad app before the end of Read More

By Molly Fischer 11/24/09 8:20pm

World Gets Smaller for Celebrity Journalists, Safer for Celebrity Matrimony

Time Inc. is folding InStyle Weddings, says Gawker. With it, presumably, goes the curse of the InStyle wedding, which ordained that unions featured on the magazine’s cover would meet bad ends.

By John Koblin 3/04/09 12:08am

Lipstick Wars at Fashion Mags! Fur Flies Under Florio

On Feb. 20, longtime Vogue associate publisher Connie Anne Phillips left 4 Times Square to become the publisher of Time Inc.’s InStyle–a Vogue competitor. Tom Florio, the brusque, old-school Condé Nast veteran and Vogue publisher, was losing a powerful deputy and longtime friend.

According to Condé Nast sources, Mr. Florio was not at all Read More

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Fall In! We Devour 2,754 Pages of September Issues

An InStyle-ish Apartment: Connie Anne Phillips Buys Gino’s Old Home

Squeals, Buzz and Barcodes as Magazine Types Gather for Technology Show and Tell

With Carol Smith at Condé, Elle Can’t Compete

InStyle Outfoxes Vogue, Elle in Ad Sales; Foxman Leads the Charge to the iPad

World Gets Smaller for Celebrity Journalists, Safer for Celebrity Matrimony

Lipstick Wars at Fashion Mags! Fur Flies Under Florio

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