Vogue Australia Editor Replaced by Editor of Harper's Bazaar Australia

Justin Fenner — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:51:52 PDT

Kirstie Clements, who had been editor in chief of Vogue Australia for 10 years, was let go and replaced by Harper's Bazaar Australia editor Edwina McCann on Wednesday.

News reports called the staff change sudden and attributed it to an overall shift in the culture at Rupert Murdoch-owned NewsLifeMedia, which publishes Vogue and other magazines in Australia. Clements was one of three senior executives at the company let go recently. The firings came in the wake of Kim Williams's appointment as CEO of Australian media conglomerate News Limited, which runs NewsLifeMedia, last December.

McCann had been editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar Australia for three years but had worked at Vogue Australia previously. She starts her new job in July.

"I am very excited about returning to work for the world's most powerful fashion media brand," she said. "The opportunities for this formidable brand online and in a social media landscape are endless and our future is very bright indeed."

Nicole Kidman and her daughter Faith on the June 2012 cover of Harper's Bazaar Australia. Photo by Will Davidson.

British Vogue's Alexandra Shulman Stirs Up Size Zero Debate

fashionologie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:31:47 PDT

>> Over the weekend, a "strongly worded letter" from Vogue UK's Alexandra Shulman "sent to scores of designers in Europe and America" - including Prada, Versace, Yves Saint Laurent, and Chanel - was leaked to the Times UK in what some are calling a publicity stunt.

In the letter, Shulman exhumed the size zero fight, accusing designers of an "increasingly disturbing" practice of sending fashion magazines "minuscule" clothes for photo shoots. "I am finding that the feedback from my readers and the general feeling in the UK is that people don't really want to see such thin girls."

She noted that the samples sent were becoming "substantially smaller": "Nowadays, I often ask the photographers to retouch to make the models appear larger." Furthermore, she wrote: "We have now reached a point where many of the sample sizes don't comfortably fit even the established star models. Instead, we are having to use girls with jutting bones and no breasts or hips, to fit them."

So who's with her? »