Vogue Italia & Vogue Paris : What Happened?

[Drusilla_]

Bluntly - they had EICs who, for all their other faults, had a vision and could get it executed, and they weren't afraid to ruffle a few feathers if they had to. Those women left/died (RIP Franca), and their replacements just didn't have the same calibre of vision, now the people in charge have even less. I mean, can you imagine any edition of Vogue or even i-D (a magazine that positions itself as more cutting-edge) running that plastic surgery story now? Or the oil slick story?

The gutting of print by the internet is half the story, the CN response to it (Wintourising everything) is the other half.