The current fashionistas are blaming the photoboy-arthead they all booked at staggered times [due to FN DEMAND] because they never learned the actual jobs they took over, aging out the real fashion heads with much fanfare.

All the techhead number-runners dispassionately gutting divisions they didn’t comprehend as they Consolidate getting to call themselves titles with Naan an idea what went into said title equals the road right to this.

& before anyone yells… CONDÉ NAST WAS ALWAYS A JUGGERNAUT. Lots of masthead (magazines) under one umbrella was usually the case. But we were all gangs keeping the shit running. Every mag had its thing and that thing drew its eyeballs.

It was a jungle in a biosphere of literal beauty.

& they’ve DOGE’d it, filled it with…folks who didn’t see this coming from the whole “barely an original idea in the collective bone marrow of the entire lot of’em” roots of them.