Word: nast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harper's Bazaar has no explicit policy about whether its employees may receive free clothes. Conda Nast, which publishes Vogue, Mademoiselle, GQ and other glossy mags, prohibits its employees from accepting "expensive" gifts, but no dollar amount is specified. Such vague guidelines are easily gotten around by junior staff members with no clothing allowance. "You can always borrow as much as you want," explains a magazine insider. Meaning: the designer still gets to receive the editor's imprimatur, while the editor still gets to look terrific on a shoestring budget...
...Conda Nast, only contributors may accept outside assignments. Andra Leon Talley, who was creative director at Vogue, did styling for Versace and John Galliano. He says he was never paid for this work. Brana Wolf, a contributor at Vogue, has worked for Calvin Klein. Though she is not on staff, she exerts an influence: her name appeared on at least one major fashion story in 11 of the past 12 issues. At Harper's Bazaar, fashion director Tonne Goodman, who has worked for Calvin Klein, still does occasional styling for her old boss...
...tape recorder with a desultory toe. Already this week he's been to Idaho and Colorado to attend a conference on freedom of speech and the American novel. He's enjoyed a "very nice evening" with Salman Rushdie and turned in a 132-page manuscript to Conde Nast Traveler on his recent trip to eastern Nepal, from which he brought back photographs of prints that may support the existence of the yeti, or Abominable Snowman. He has two books just off the presses -- on Siberia and Africa. In between all these activities, he is working on the second part...
Comics aren't just for the funny papers anymore. Although profound and absurdist cartoons are as old as Thomas Nast's Tamnammy Hall caricatures and the 1920's "Krazy Kat," the cartoonist's art exploded into a vast panopoly of styles in the 1980s. The New Comics Anthology, edited by Bob Callahan, provides the neophyte comics reader with a diverse representation of the most skilled cartoonists of the post-modern...
...publications, Vogue (U.S. circ. more than 1.2 million) is the most powerful. The magazine maintains its hold on the market, says Grace Coddington, fashion director of the U.S. edition (there are nine Vogues around the world), in part because its top photographers do not work for competitors of Conde Nast, Vogue's parent company...