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These are some of the trials experienced in recent months by Kate Betts, 35, the newly installed editor in chief at Harper's Bazaar. Since September, when she assumed stewardship of the country's oldest fashion glossy, Betts has been plotting its complete redesign, transforming everything from the magazine's layout to its logo--replacing the elegant typeface with bold lettering that she hopes reflects a more youthful orientation. Formerly the fashion news director at Vogue, she succeeds Liz Tilberis, a beloved editor who died from ovarian cancer last April. Betts inherited a magazine that, despite earning praise...
...created enough buzz to spike ad pages 70% compared with the same time last year. But rather than dwell on her innovations, the media have tended to focus on the more irresistible and dramatically convenient story line that pits Betts against her former boss Anna Wintour, Vogue's formidable editor in chief...
...with the exception of a newspaper article in which Betts, who gave birth to her first child only days after accepting the Bazaar post, expressed disappointment that Wintour had not sent her a baby gift, both women have behaved with determined gentility. Wintour praised Betts in a recent editor's letter (making no mention of the handful of Vogue staff members Betts took with her), and Betts acknowledged Wintour in her first editor's note as well. It seems the two share more than good manners. "Kate is more effusive and engaged than Anna in general," says a writer...
Norman Pearlstine, Editor-in-Chief...
Walter Isaacson, Managing Editor...