Word: nast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second wives to older, distinguished husbands. More important, Editors Tina Brown of Vanity Fair and Anna Wintour of House & Garden are journalistic prodigies boldly imposing their visions on two venerable American magazines in the same publishing empire. Recruited by Newspaper Scion S.I. Newhouse, proprietor of the eleven Conde Nast magazines, Brown and Wintour are rising stars who may one day equal such Conde Nast legends as Diana Vreeland, formerly of Vogue, and Ruth Whitney of Glamour...
That Vanity Fair, one of the most celebrated avant-garde magazines of the 1920s, would once again be a trendsetter was exactly what Newhouse and Conde Nast Editorial Director Alexander Liberman hoped when they revived the long- defunct magazine in 1983. But after one of the most heralded debuts in recent publishing history, the new magazine collapsed under the weight of its own pretension. Eleven months and two editors later, Newhouse and Liberman hired Brown, an Oxford graduate whose spunky editing had turned around the British satirical monthly Tatler...
...named creative director of American Vogue in 1983 and editor of the British edition in 1986. In London her brusque approach to redesigning the already successful British Vogue earned her the sobriquets "nuclear Wintour" and "Wintour of our discontent." The shy editor clearly relishes power. "I'm the Conde Nast hit man," she told a friend. "I love coming in and changing magazines...
Whatever outsiders may say, both Brown and Wintour are securely established within the Conde Nast firmament. Each reportedly receives more than $200,000 a year, plus a $25,000 clothing allowance and plenty of pampering. During her stint in London, Wintour's husband David Shaffer, a prominent child psychiatrist, remained in New York City; the company paid for regular Concorde flights so they could visit each other. And some say Newhouse launched Traveler, Conde Nast's newest magazine, so that Brown's husband Editor Harold Evans would have something to do in New York...
Editors Tina Brown and Anna Wintour are rising stars in the Conde Nast firmament. -- Columbia gets a new journalism school dean...