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Breaking news! Former Elle fashion director Nina Garcia is (purportedly) unemployed no more. Apparently we'll be hearing any minute now that she's taken a "major position" at Marie Claire. Marie Claire, you might remember, is also rumored to be taken over the sponsorship spot once held by Elle for the sixth season of Project Runway, when it begins airing on Lifetime. Which would mean that Nina could keep her judging spot on The Greatest Show on Earth, too. So again we ask: What does it all mean? Eh, fuck if we know. Congrats, Nina. [NYMag via Fashion Week Daily]
OMG: Fired Elle fashion director Nina Garcia was just seen exiting the Hearst building. What does it all mean????? [Fashionista]
Elle magazine seems to have found itself the victim of a pretty cruel prank. Ginormous "RETRACTION" stickers have been placed over the May story "The Believers", which turns a very critical eye on radical eco-activists and their practices. (These activists are most likely the perps behind the sticker crimes themsleves.) And while no one from Elle has yet to confirm anything with the Nina Garcia story, a spokesperson was able to verify that, indeed, the magazine is investigating the situation. [Folio]
Has everyone at Shape overdosed on endorphins? Folio points out that the October and November covers of the magazine are basically identical. (Seriously, the only difference is that Sheryl Crow's head is attached to the body on one and Heather Graham's face on the other.) Shape says it's just "a coincidence." We say they need some new ideas. [Folio]
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'Justine' Magazine: Just Because We Haven't Heard Of It Doesn't Mean It Can't Rot Tween Souls
Just because we've never heard of teen magazine Justine before doesn't mean that we didn't want to learn all sorts of things about it from the good peeps at MediaPost's 'Magazine Rack'. After all, we were once teenage girls. And while our parents made YM forbidden — they said it was demeaning to women — we did pore over many a Seventeen. Which we think we stopped reading by the time we were, oh, 13? [What about 'Sassy'? -Ed.] Anyway, the times haven't changed much. In fact, if anything, the current crop of teen mags is even worse than the ones from the mid-80s, as everything one needs to know about Justine can be wrapped up in one terse statement:[C]rap transcends generational differencesMore »
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The Numbers Are In And 'Elle' Is In The Lead
Even pre-redesign (more on that Monday!), Elle magazine sure must be doing something right: Elle fared best amongst the magazines in its field for newsstand sales for the first part of 2007. Elle's figures went up by 9.1%, while Vogue saw only a 4.6% increase, Harper's Bazaar only increased its sales by 2.0%, and W suffered a 23.1% loss. More »
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Lindsay Lohan On Cover Of September 'Elle': Way More Than 'Adequite'
The folks over at Women's Wear Daily are worried about Elle. The paper's media-gossip column 'Memo Pad' is concerned about what Lindsay Lohan's latest DUI arrest means for the Hachette fashion magazine, which is featuring the actress on the cover of its advertiser-heavy, September fashion extravaganza for the 2nd year in a row (last year's cover, above left).Elle readers seeking pages of fashion and style advice might be turned off by another Lohan arrest and pending court date, which will take place just days after the magazine hits newsstands... sources said Elle's interview and photo shoot took place prior to Lohan's stint in rehab, so it's likely the story doesn't include any discussion of her most recent run-in with the law.Uh, doesn't that make the upcoming issue even more tantalizing? Also, does no one remember Lohan's appearance on the cover of InStyle's November 2006 issue, which came out just as she was doing AA for the first time and telling director Robert Altman's widow to "be adequite" and all that shit? As far as we've heard, InStyle's issue sold pretty well. More »
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'Elle' Magazine's Fashion News Department: Now With Fewer People Than Olives
Elle's "fashion news" department has lost yet another member of its staff. Ordinarily we would not care, but Elle's fashion news department is helmed by one inimitable Anne Slowey, she of the occasional three-olive-a-day diet. Anne is blonde and, we hear, very spiritual, so we know she is handling the loss of senior fashion news editor Jenny Feldman — departing for the decidedly more hipster-heavy pastures of Nylon — with total Zenlike calm, like that time the Buddha sat so long meditating the bird shits accumulated in thick piles on his head, except that we would, uh, not want to be the bird who takes a dump on Anne Slowey's head. More »
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Between The Covers: Anne Slowey's Kinda Nasty-Ass "Elle" Office
The May, "Green" issue of Elle has just hit newsstands and last night, we found a delightful and revealing little article by Elle editorial assistant Lindsay Talbot, who toils for the magazine's Fashion News Direcdtor (and notorious under-eater) Anne Slowey. More »
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Between The Covers With: Kate White, Intern Jenna, Nina Garcia and Mom-Mags
- Did the failure of Bonnie Fuller's 23-word-title self-help tome scare off the publisher for her replacement at Cosmopolitan, Kate White? White has apparently changed the title of the paperback edition of her latest non-fiction book, cutting it down from 17 words (18 if you're not counting hyphenated phrases!) to 15. With Fuller's book selling only 338 copies in paperback since its release in early January, we don't blame her! [Radar]
