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    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
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    Vogue International Hommes editor to be axed



    Good fucking riddance!!! Can we also axe whoever in charge of Arena Homme +? It's even worse. From fashionwiredaily.com



    Vogue Hommes International's Bruno Danto About to be Guillotined




    Godfrey Deeny

    September 12th, 2006 @ 1:38 PM - New York

    Looks
    as if Bruno Danto's days as editor-in-chief of Vogue Hommes
    International are numbered; make that he is soon to be guillotined.



    Danto, who is in New York and due to throw a dinner party to
    celebrate his latest issue, will be replaced by Carine Roitfeld,
    editor-in-chief of French Vogue, who will add the famed men's fashion
    title to her fiefdom.



    "Nothing is official and nothing has been signed. But it's going to
    happen," Roitfeld told FWD at the front row of the Marc Jacobs catwalk
    show in New York Monday night.



    Her latest appointment further enhances her reputation as Europe's
    most important fashion editor, whose latest issue of French Vogue
    contains several pages of men's coverage. Roitfeld, noted for attending
    major men's collections and championing emerging names, frequently
    included fashion forward men's clothes in her editorial pages, in
    particular from Dior Homme and Cloak.



    Danto replaced Richard Buckley, Tom Ford's significant other, early
    last year and has so far overseen three issues of the style bible,
    featuring Vincent Cassel, Lennie Kravitz and Kate Moss as covers.



    His appointment was somewhat of a surprise given that he was neither a fashion writer, nor critic nor stylist.



    His brief reign was characterized by what many regarded as an
    overambitious agenda of cozying up to famous names – his attempt to
    hire Graydon Carter as a contributor did provoke a certain glee.
    Moreover, under his tenure Vogue Hommes International did not have a
    distinctive fashion opinion, unlike its glory days in the early
    Nineties when Jacqueline Degioanni made it the best European men's
    fashion magazine.



    Another source of amusement was Danto's representation as creative
    director by one New York agent, whose website prominently featured a
    shoot by none other than Bruce Weber doing Weber in a surfer shoot in
    Montauk, i.e. a story commissioned for Danto's magazine.



    Danto was also editor-in-chief of Sport&Style, an occasional
    title created in a joint venture with the French sports daily and Conde
    Nast, which he went around terming, "zee Vanity Fair of sport."



    Asked what her plans were for the magazine, Roitfeld replied: "I
    honestly haven't had a chance to think too much about it. What I do
    know is that it is going to be a lot more work."



    She declined to confirm whether Fabien Baron, creative director of
    French Vogue, would take a similar role at Vogue Hommes International.
    Baron has men's magazine chops, once making several great editions of
    Arena Homme Plus, to most industry observers that title's best period.



    Five minutes before Roitfeld sat down, FWD also asked Baron about Danto's departure.



    "Oh…I know nothing. People talk, what can I say," said Baron
    rolling his shoulders and puckering his lips dramatically. A great art
    director is our Fabian, but when its comes to acting he makes Erik
    Estrada look like an Oscar winner.



    The only question now remains what will become of Danto's Manhattan
    dinner, scheduled for the private home of 60 Thompson hotel owner Jason
    Pomeranc?


    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

    StyleZeitgeist Magazine
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