By Nitasha Tiku 2/29/12 3:23pm

Fashion Week Observed

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Fashion Week Etiquette Breach: Photogs Bemoan Bloggers With iPhones

As sartorialists make their biannual pilgrimage from New York to London to Milan to Paris, some veteran tent-dwellers still have a pebble stuck in their Louboutins from Lincoln Center.

The glossy editor’s anxiety over being edged out of the front row, it seems, has migrated over to the media riser and down to the pit. What was once the province of professional photogs, to hear them tell it, has been overrun by iPhone and iPad wielding bloggers who wouldn’t know a bounce flash from a zoom lens. And they’re hogging up the press passes for backstage beauty shots!

Shortly after they turned off the stage lights and sopped up the champagne, a handful of disgruntled photographers reached out to The Observer to kvetch. Slights ranged from being turned away from shows, to an errant iPhone interrupting their runway image, to discovering that the insolent photo-bloggers never learned the etiquette about getting your shot and moving on. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 9/15/11 1:14pm

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W Magazine Launches Daily iPad Edition

W magazine launched an iPad app called The Daily W today, according to a press release from the magazine.

Although it launched in conjunction with the October issue, the app is unrelated to W print editions. It is “a daily offering of exquisite ‘must sees’ and ‘must haves’ carefully curated by the editors of W,“ including exclusive Read More

By Aaron Gell 8/23/11 7:58pm

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9/11 Memorial App to Be iPad-Exclusive [Pics]

The 9/11 Memorial: Past, Present and Future is an absorbing look at the World Trade Center site—including the original development of the Twin Towers,  the devastating attacks that brought them down and the elaborate process behind the construction of the memorial and the accompanying museum.

It contains some 400 still photographs and hours of video clips. It will be free to the public between September 1 and September 12 (mark your calendar) and can be purchased for $9.95 thereafter.

And it will be available exclusively on the Apple iPad. Read More

By Nitasha Tiku 7/19/11 8:22pm

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Condé Nast Is Experiencing Technical Difficulties

Not long after Scott Dadich was appointed executive editor of digital magazine development for all of Condé Nast, “the tops of the mastheads,” as the senior editorial staffs are called, filed into the company’s fourth-floor lecture hall for a series of meetings. Condé’s new iPad king was holding court.

This wasn’t the first time the tastemakers of 4 Times Square had met Mr. Dadich. He’d been shopping “that Wired thing” around the company since it debuted in iTunes’ App Store in May 2010 to considerable fanfare and a flurry of downloads.

But this time, Mr. Dadich faced a few more sets of crossed arms. Read More