Legendary fashion photographer Irving Penn created some of fashion’s most iconic images over his six decade collaboration with Vogue magazine. He died last night at age 92. Goodbyes and eulogies started on Twitter late last night and continue through the morning.
Three weeks after McKinsey & Company slipped its foot into the door of the emerald tower, Condé Nast staffers continue to ask what fresh hell they find themselves in.
Recent Microsoft advertisements featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld were such a flop that the computing giant stripped the spots from the airwaves. But just how bad were the commercials?
It wasn’t so long ago ago that Tina Brown and Bonnie Fuller were busy transforming entire magazine genres. They lived on opposite ends of the taste spectrum–Brown edited Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, Fuller revamped Glamour, then re-invented the celebrity gossip concept at Us Weekly and later the Star–but the two had a similar [...]
Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudge Report and the Obama campaign.
Former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown has more than her much-ballyhooed bio of Bill and Hillary Clinton coming down the pipeline: Radar has learned that the erstwhile “Queen of Buzz” is partnering with InterActiveCorp (IACI) honcho Barry Diller to launch her own news aggregator Web site.
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