Tatler Magazine

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 2:12pm on Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Tatler magazine is celebrating 300 years of publishing, WWD reported on October 6, 2009:

"Tatler is marking three centuries in publishing with a bumper anniversary issue due out this week that celebrates its British pedigree — complete with Queen Elizabeth II as cover girl. The November issue is also Catherine Ostler’s first major showcase since she took the helm of the Condé Nast International title earlier this year. The issue, with its triple gatefold cover, is Tatler’s biggest ever, with 408 pages, 224-and-a-half of which are ads from companies including Tiffany, Versace, Gucci, Paul Smith, Van Cleef & Arpels, Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik. Ostler said she wanted to spotlight Tatler’s role of recording “an alternative history” of England, and delivering the news “not of the battlefields, but of contemporary manners and style.”

“It was the very first edition of Tatler that got me — it was so exciting,” said Ostler, referring to the newspaper dated April 12, 1709. “There were no pictures — and it was filled with gossip, opinion and wit. [Jonathan] Swift was the first contributor! It was distributed in the coffee houses of St. James’s, and readers were addicted to it. This is how a title keeps going,” she said."

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 10:56am on Monday, June 22nd, 2009

In June 2009, Tatler magazine hired Annabel Rivkin as executive editor and Chris Whale as art director.