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Harper’s 10 Years Under Glenda Bailey Gets the Coffee Book Treatment

Lester Brathwaite — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:00:20 +0000

Harper’s Bazaar is perhaps the most editorially-interesting fashion mag in the U.S. and that is thanks in large part to editor-in-chief, Glenda Bailey. Now Bailey has gone through her past decade at the helm to release the coffee table book, Harper’s Bazaar Greatest Hits.

Ever since taking over the tome in 2001, La Bailey’s pushed for fun, daring and unvonventional spreads, from Demi Moore ascending a floating staircase in a McQueen armadillo heel while feeding a giraffe to The Simpsons modeling in Paris with Linda Evangelista and Karl Lagerfeld.

Harper’s Bazaar Greatest Hits starts with Bailey’s first cover — Gwyneth Paltrow…it could be worse — and goes year by year, as edited by Bailey herself over last summer in the Hamptons. I foresee one of the book’s 20,000 copies landing on FashionIndie‘s already full coffee table in the coming months.

And though rumors persist that Bailey is always one stilettoed step away from being replaced at Harper’s, both she and Hearst president David Carey deny them.

Carey refers to a story WWD ran questioning Bailey’s future as “a bad piece of journalism” while Bailey just takes it in stride:

“Any editor at the top of their game has to deal with that. It would be naïve to believe everything you read about yourself in print. I just laugh it off.” [WWD]

Hearst Magazine Subscriptions Coming to an iPad Near You

Lester Brathwaite — Thu, 05 May 2011 09:55:50 +0000

Hearst has become the first big magazine publisher to strike a deal with the all-powerful, all-seeing, all-evil Apple to sell digital subscriptions to its magazines on the iPad.

Starting next month, you can purchase subscriptions to ~~the Bible~~ O: The Oprah Magazine, Esquire and something called Popular Mechanics for $19.99 a year, or $1.99 a month through iTunes.

Other publishers have been slow to get in bed with Apple because the computer giant is notoriously a selfish lover, demanding a 30 percent cut of any subscription sale completed in the iTunes store.

Hearst refused to discuss the terms of their deal, however, simply saying, “We came to an equitable and fair agreement to owning customers together.”

I doubt they’ll truly “own” anyone “together” since Oprah already owns and operates everyone and everything as it is, or are we forgetting the 2008 elections? [WWD]

Elizabeth Hurley & Glenda Bailey Honor Fabulous Women of Every Age

Amanda Gabriele — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:25:57 +0000

Harper’s Bazaar appreciates the beauty and grace present in women of all ages and knows amazing style is timeless. Last night, the fabulous publication hosted an event with Estée Lauder spokesmodel Elizabeth Hurley and Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey to toast the finalists and name the grand prize winner of their second “Fabulous at Every Age” contest. Lookbooks and FashionIndie editor-in-chief Samantha Lim and I ventured up to the event at the Hearst Tower to see all of these fantastic women in person.

“Women who are fabulous at every age show a genuine spirit for life and are passionate about their personal style,” said Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey. “These women know that fashion and style have everything to do with confidence and nothing to do with the number of birthdays they’ve celebrated.”

We here at FashionIndie could not agree more! There were five finalists, one each in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. They each receive a $5,000 cash prize and gifts from Estée Lauder, with the grand prize winner awarded an additional $5,000. And the grand prize went to….

Brandyn Barbara Artis! She is in her 60s, always effortlessly chic and fabulous. “Brandyn has been a wife, mother, grandmother, breast cancer survivor, lobbyist/cancer awareness advocate, playwright, actress, US air force veteran, all with grace and elegance,” says her friend who nominated her.

All of the contestants were gorgeous, and obviously Sam and I were drooling over how hot Elizabeth Hurley is in person.

You can read more about the finalists and contest at HarpersBazaar.com.

- New York, NY - 4/12/11 - Harper`s Bazaar and Estee Lauder Celebrate the Winners of the `Fabulous at Every Age` Contest. -PICTURED: Elizabeth Hurley and Brandyn Barbara Artis (67, Contest Winner) -PHOTO by: Amanda Schwab/Startraksphoto.com -AMR3569095 Startraks Photo New York, NY For licensing please call 212-414-9464 or email sales@startraksphoto.com

- New York, NY - 4/12/11 - Harper`s Bazaar and Estee Lauder Celebrate the Winners of the `Fabulous at Every Age` Contest. -PICTURED: Elizabeth Hurley, Glenda Bailey and the `Fabulous at Every Age` Contestants -PHOTO by: Amanda Schwab/Startraksphoto.com -AMR3569073 Startraks Photo New York, NY For licensing please call 212-414-9464 or email sales@startraksphoto.com

- New York, NY - 4/12/11 - Harper`s Bazaar and Estee Lauder Celebrate the Winners of the `Fabulous at Every Age` Contest. -PICTURED: Brandyn Barbara Artis (67, Contest Winner) -PHOTO by: Amanda Schwab/Startraksphoto.com -AMR3569054 Startraks Photo New York, NY For licensing please call 212-414-9464 or email sales@startraksphoto.com

Cosmo, Cosmo Everywhere

Rebecca Alexander — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:23:24 +0000

Reported by WWD, Hearst Communications filed a complaint against Cosmo Senior Borrower LLC, claiming that the owner and developer of the Los Vegas hotel was inspired by Cosmo Mag.

“The Hearst suit alleges the defendants are seeking to trade off of the publisher’s “famous, long-established family of marks…and [the defendant] has stated its intention to use those marks in connection with goods and services that are the same as or related to the goods and services to which the public associates the marks with [Hearst Communications Inc.”

I guess the world ‘cosmopolitan’ has become very popular, from a signature cocktail, to magazine, and now a hotel/resort.

Weigh in indies, is this too muc ‘cosmo’ ?