Times Store. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options. By Andrea Chang Staff Writer. Andrea Chang. Follow Us twitter instagram email facebook. More From the Los Angeles Times. Business The best side hustles for musicians and music lovers. Business Strike at Kaiser Permanente averted two days before deadline. John B. Fairchild retired in at age 70, naming Patrick McCarthy to be his successor as chairman and editorial director of Fairchild Publications.
After a series of media mergers and acquisitions that gave Fairchild Publications various corporate parents in the s and s, the company was acquired in by Advance Publications Inc. WWD remains one of the most influential voices in the world of fashion. It is famous as a sort of prep school for fashion journalists. Agins, Teri. New York: Quill, Kelly, Katie. New York: Saturday Review Press, Fashion History Fashion and Clothing Industry Women's Wear Daily Its own motto is "the retailer's daily newspaper," but within the fashion industry, Women's Wear Daily is widely referred to as "the bible of the business.
Early Years Women's Wear first appeared as a supplement to the 21 May edition of the Daily Trade Record , a broad-sheet that tracked the burgeoning, if rather dry, textiles imports and apparel manufacturing businesses. Second Generation The second generation took over in when Louis E. Sharing American Design With the World Fairchild and WWD were instrumental in shifting the world's attention to the merits of American designers, giving their clothes and their personal style more attention than either had ever received.
Time Magazine September 14, When it came to modern women, Fairchild was particularly obsessed with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, sending photographers to wait outside restaurants like La Grenouille and Le Cote Basque where she regularly lunched.
Controversies WWD courted controversy, frequently needling designers-its review of Saint Laurent's first collection for Dior said the dresses looked like toothpaste tubes on top of a brioche-and occasionally banishing them from the pages. The Reagan Years A new round of conspicuous consumption in the s fit perfectly with the paper's exuberant coverage of the worlds of fashion and society. Capital Cities Broadcasting In , the family decided to sell Fairchild Publications which had grown to include trade papers dedicated to footwear, home furnishings, even electronics to Capital Cities Broadcasting, thus becoming part of a publicly owned media empire.
Bibliography Agins, Teri. Women's Clothing Magazines. Evolution of the Fashion Industry. Paco Rabanne. Issey Miyake. Fashion Magazines.
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The final newsprint edition of WWD was printed on April 24, as the paper switched to a digital daily format and a weekly print edition was launched on April 29, The journal was founded by Edmund Fairchild on July 13, as an outgrowth of the menswear journal Daily News Record.
Fairchild also played hardball to help his circulation. After two couturiers forbade press coverage until one month after buyers had seen their clothes, Fairchild published photos and sketches anyway. John Fairchild was publisher of the magazine from to In response, some designers forbade their representatives from speaking to WWD reporters or disinvited WWD reporters from their fashion shows.
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