Fashion Editors ... The New Black?!

How refreshing to see the shift within the industry, especially when the puppet masters of fashion are put in the spotlight for their choice of style. According to Tim Blanks [Style.com], a group of Japanese paparazzi have started a new trend within their publication market. During visits to Europe, Japan or Italy these distinguish group of photographers with a keen eye for style are going after FASHION EDITORS or STYLE ICONS, not models!

The wardrobe selections of Vogue Nippon editor Anna Dello Russo, Anne Christensen of The New York Times Magazine and Vogue editor Virginia Smith are the "IT" girls for fashion publications like Madame Figaro Japon, Cutie and Spur ... check it out, I heart the energy and time Japanese put into their work, makes me want to work just as hard.

The 1st Lady Serves Up Style in VOGUE

“It’s a wonderful achievement for Vogue,” said editor at large André Leon Talley, who interviewed Obama for an hour at the Hay-Adams Hotel a few weeks before the inauguration. Vogue has photographed the new first ladies since 1929, when the first was President Herbert Hoover’s wife, Lou Henry Hoover.

Obama’s cover portrait, said Talley, “absolutely reflects who she is without any questions. There’s such a warmth that she emanates. It’s the warmest cover you’ve seen in a long time on Vogue. Models pose, actresses pose. This is a real woman.”

For the shoot, the First Lady Michelle Obama chose her own looks for the shoot, including a black Narciso Rodriguez dress and a J. Crew cardigan, top and skirt ensemble from the fall collection.

Read sneak peak of article here.

The Publication Dip Continues

With the holidays vastly approaching these times are lacking it's "Most Wondeful Time of the Year" feeling, especially when the EcoSlump continues down hill. As the trends amongst the magazine industry dip, if noticed, the publications to receive it's final page turning point are niche magazine spinoffs from its sister publications such as: Suede, Vibe Vixen, CosmoGirl and now Men's Vogue and Portfolio ... it begins to make you place bets on who's up next.

While riding the netwaves, I came across an interesting article on WWD, which reported the various changes within the publishing industry and the number of employees suffering due to the likes, quite interesting to know that the publishing gurus of Conde Nast Publications Inc. share a level of sameness when it comes to their readers. Check out the article below.

Reported by WWD, (On Thursday) Condé Nast Publications Inc., which has so far been relatively insulated by its private ownership and stable of affluent-aimed titles (and which also owns WWD), said it would absorb Men’s Vogue into parent magazine Vogue, retaining only editor in chief Jay Fielden (and reportedly his assistant) to edit a biannual supplement. Also, Portfolio, the ambitious business magazine the company launched in 2006, laid off nearly all of its Web staff as well as several magazine editors and writers, and reduced the magazine’s frequency to 10 times a year. Managing editor Jacob Lewis was said to be going from office to office at the title on Thursday to inform those editors and writers who were being let go, with at least nine being laid off as of Thursday afternoon.