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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 6:12pm on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 | Susan Plagemann has been named vice president and publisher of Vogue magazine. Charles H. Townsend, President and CEO of Condé Nast made the announcement on November 4, 2009.
Plagemann will report to Thomas A. Florio, senior vice president and publishing director for the Vogue properties, Bon Appétit, and Condé Nast Traveler. Her appointment is effective January 4, 2010.
“Susan has had a successful and distinguished career at Hearst,” Mr. Townsend said. “She is experienced, creative and extremely well connected. Tom and I are thrilled to welcome her back to Condé Nast.”
“Susan is a publisher who is well liked and well respected in the fashion community,” said Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue. “I am very much looking forward to working with her.”
Plagemann has been the vice president and publisher of Marie Claire magazine since 2004. Previously, she was the vice president & publisher of Lifetime, published jointly by Hearst and the Walt Disney Company, until it was closed. She was the publisher of Cosmopolitan from 1999 to 2002 and the associate publisher from 1997 to 1999. Ms. Plagemann joined Hearst in 1995 as the advertising manager of Esquire. She started her publishing career at Condé Nast, where she held a variety of advertising positions at Mademoiselle.
Plagemann lives in Manhattan with her husband and their three children.
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:10pm on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 | Vogue magazine will spend mucho dinero to send Anna Wintour and her minions on a European fashion vacation for the fall fashion shows, the New York Post reported on August 21, 2009:
"Condé's flagship Vogue, which is sticking to its tradition of putting its editors, including the imperial Anna Wintour, up at only the finest hotels.
According to sources, Wintour's European entourage, which is usually about 10 people including her creative director, fashion director, several top stylists, European market editor, beauty editor and Publisher Tom Florio, is estimated to cost the company close to $250,000 in travel expenses.
A source said Wintour stays at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, while underlings are sent to the Crillon and the George V.
"It's a little bit of a two-tier system over there," said one rival editor. "There's Vogue, and then there's everyone else, Glamour and Allure and the all the rest."
The full story:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08212009/business/vogues_suite_deal_185656.htm
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 12:08pm on Sunday, May 17th, 2009 | 60 Minutes will offer a look inside the world of Anna Wintour, Vogue's top editor, the New York Daily News reported on May 14, 2009:
"Welcome to Anna Wintour's world.
In a rare sitdown interview with "60 Minutes" correspondent Morley Safer, the Vogue editor and queen of haute couture dishes on everything from why she wears her signature dark sunglasses to Vogue's editorial adjustments during the recession.
Wintour – who has been at Vogue's helm for more than 20 years – told Safer the oversized shades have become her "armor" and are much more than a fashion accessory.
"They're seriously useful. I can sit at a show and if I'm bored out of my mind, nobody will notice and if I'm enjoying it nobody will notice," she says in a video clip posted on the CBSNews.com.
"I think at this point they've become really armor." Safer's team trailed Wintour, 59, for months through fashions shows in New York, Paris and Milan and sat in on editorial meetings at the magazine.
She's decisive, sometimes curt, and appears to have a hand in every part of the magazine’s production – just like the lead character she inspired for the popular novel "The Devil Wears Prada," brought to life on the big screen by actress Meryl Streep."
The airs on CBS on Sunday, May 17.
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:24pm on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 | Alexandra Kotur is the viscountess of Vogue, Irina Aleksander of the New York Observer wrote on April 28, 2009:
"If Vogue is the high temple of fashion—its foundation somewhat cracked by its cheesy portrayal in The Devil Wears Prada and a nasty takedown by The Times’ Cathy Horyn—Ms. Kotur, 39, is its chief abbess. At a moment of confusion for fashion, when the landscape is littered with cheap reality shows and stylists run amok, she offers a refreshing constancy; a sense of standards upheld. Every day she boards the elevator at 4 Times Square, in an impeccably ironed white blouse, dark slacks, flats and no makeup, a thoughtful little smile on her pale face, her coif parted precisely down the middle and neatly pulled back. She glides rather than walks (according to colleagues, she has a medical condition that affects her gait, though she declined to discuss this with The Observer), and she speaks in quiet yet declarative sentences.
Ms. Kotur has been at Vogue for 13 years, rising from assistant to associate editor to senior editor–special projects—“which basically just meant that I do a lot of things,” she said—to her present appointment, in 2006. In addition to editing the magazine’s front-of-the-book section—including the columns of editor at large André Leon Talley and society writer William Norwich as well as pages like It Girl and Overheard—she is responsible for overseeing much of the magazine’s portrait photography: conceptualizing how first ladies and socialites should look in the magazine."
The full story:
http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/viscountess-vogue
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:33pm on Monday, February 23rd, 2009 | February 23, 2009: Lottie Oakley and Tim O'Connor have been named Associate Publishers of Vogue, it was announced by Thomas A. Florio, Senior Vice President-Group Publisher of Vogue. The appointments are effective immediately.
Both Ms. Oakley and Mr. O'Connor are veterans of Vogue where they helped produce several of the largest issues in the magazine's history.
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