Kate Lanphear had been editor-in-chief of Maxim magazine for only a few weeks in the waning months of 2014, when the discussion finally, and inevitably, turned to sex. There had already been a long string of meetings addressing features, fashion, humor, grooming, celebrities, food, and anything else you might expect…
Maxim’s brief tenure as the kind of magazine that would run a sophisticated photo of Idris Elba on the cover has really, really ended: Page Six reports that current cover star Alessandra Ambrosio found it “odd” that owner Sardar Biglari lurked on set during her (totally nude) photo shoot.
A couple weeks after Maxim announced that its first woman editor-in-chief Kate Lanphear was leaving, WWD reports that Lanphear is being replaced by Glenn O’Brien, who is a man.
Kate Lanphear, the venerated fashion editor-turned-EIC of a kinder, gentler Maxim, is leaving the magazine after a little more than a year, reports The Cut. In her tenure there, she tipped the editorial direction towards a more equal playing field, removing the magazine’s lurid depiction of women and replacing them…
