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?