NUMBERS GAME: London’s Frieze Artwork honest rolled throughout the weekend, and the events didn’t cease. Amongst them was a dinner that Charles Finch, movie trade veteran and founding father of the cinema-focused title A Rabbit’s Foot hosted alongside Bettina Korek, chief government officer of Serpentine Galleries.
Visitors from the worlds of artwork and movie gathered at scorching boutique resort The Twenty Two in Grosvenor Sq. for a roast hen dinner (with chocolate brownies for dessert) in the course of the buzzy honest the place paintings was promoting shortly, virtually as quickly because the doorways opened.
Artists together with Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Marc Quinn and Yinka Ilori broke sourdough bread with movie of us together with director Baff Akoto and actors Daryl McCormack, Claire Forlani, Greta Bellamacina and Josie Ho.
Gallerists, collectors and artwork specialists on the desk included Ben Brown, Maja Hoffmann and Katy Hessel, whose e book “The Story of Artwork With out Males,” was an immediate bestseller final 12 months.
Jean Pigozzi
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Collector Jean Pigozzi, who’s been making waves within the artwork world, was additionally within the room. Pigozzi plans to donate his giant up to date African artwork assortment to a brand new museum in Cannes. Will probably be on the Saint-Roch chapel, and is about to open in 2026.
Finch stated he was eager to get the gang collectively as A Rabbit’s Foot “has at all times had movie and tradition at its coronary heart.” He stated the Serpentine, together with chairman Michael Bloomberg and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the galleries’ inventive director, have supported him perpetually, and are at all times involved in trying on the intersection of artwork and movie.
The dinner was considered one of many massive moments Finch has deliberate within the coming months for A Rabbit’s Foot and his varied different companies.
The subsequent subject of A Rabbit’s Foot will hit cabinets on Dec. 7, with the theme of “automobiles, bikes, motorbikes and the flicks,” he stated.
Tierney Gearon has photographed a selection on surfers and what they experience on dry land, whereas one other function is devoted and the late director William Friedkin, whose automotive chase scene in “The French Connection,” has change into a part of the cinematic canon.
Finch can also be reprising his Energy of Movie sequence of talks in London in 2024, and stated he’s hopeful the Hollywood actors’ strike will come to an finish quickly in order that his manufacturing firm can begin casting “Miss Julie,” considered one of a sequence of movies he has within the pipeline. “It’s able to go,” he stated. – Samantha Conti
PROFIT DENT: Restructuring prices, disposals and Russia’s struggle in Ukraine dented earnings at Condé Nast’s worldwide arm in fiscal 2022, in response to accounts filed at Firms Home within the U.Ok.
The division, Condé Nast Holdings Ltd., oversees print, digital and particular occasions. It posted a 41 % drop in earnings to fifteen.6 million kilos for the 12 months to Dec. 31. Turnover within the interval was down 4 % to 254.2 million kilos.
Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford onstage throughout Vogue World: London.
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The accounts check with Condé’s enterprise within the U.Ok., Germany, France, Italy and Spain, the place it publishes greater than 30 editions of titles together with Vogue, Vainness Honest, GQ, Architectural Digest, Wired and Condé Nast Traveller.
Condé Nast Holdings Ltd. is in the end owned by Advance Publications Inc., which is predicated in New York.
The corporate, which describes itself as “digital first,” noticed newsstand and subscription gross sales decline by 21 % to 42.4 million kilos within the 12-month interval, whereas advert revenues have been broadly flat at 211.8 million kilos.
Extraordinary losses within the interval totaled 3.1 million kilos in contrast with 13.1 million kilos within the earlier interval. They resulted from plenty of components together with restructuring prices, which Condé stated have been primarily because of employees severance pay because the writer reorganizes its editorial and business groups.
As reported, Condé has been consolidating editorial employees and sharing content material throughout territories as a part of a brand new construction.
The groups in the end report back to Anna Wintour, Condé Nast world chief content material officer and Vogue editor in chief, who has solidified her dominance over the corporate’s editorial operations over the previous couple of years.
Final month, Condé named Chioma Nnadi as British Vogue’s head of editorial content material, taking up tasks from Edward Enninful, who might be assuming a brand new position at Condé Nast.
Not like Enninful, Nnadi won’t maintain the title of editor in chief. Relatively, as head of editorial content material, she’s going to take care of the day-to-day working of the journal, mirroring the setup in any respect of Condé Nast’s titles.
In fiscal 2022 Condé additionally ceased publishing in Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, and wrote off 5.1 million kilos as end result. The corporate additionally divested its London-based training companies, incurring a lack of 1.3 million kilos.
The Condé Nast School of Trend and Design, which launched in 2013 and provided a variety of programs in addition to bachelor and grasp of arts levels, was offered to BrandEd, a world training firm. – S.C.
MEN’S STYLE: The Italian version of Esquire has discovered a brand new editor in chief in Giovanni Audiffredi, WWD has discovered.
The seasoned editor and Condé Nast veteran who has most lately devoted his profession to freelancing and consulting is to affix the Hearst-owned males’s publication in January, the media firm stated Monday.
He succeeds Massimo Russo, Hearst Italy’s chief content material officer, who had taken the helm of the journal on an interim foundation in 2021 following an inner reorganization on the writer of Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Males’s Well being, amongst different titles. Earlier than Russo took on the interim position, Alan Prada was Esquire’s editor in chief.
“Along with [Massimo] Russo we had been trying for a very long time for an expert with the precise know-how and background to additional develop one of the storied and related Hearst titles on this planet,” stated Giacomo Moletto, chief government officer of Hearst Italy. “Audiffredi is actually a high-profile alternative for Esquire, {a magazine} that is ready to describe the evolution of males’s model comprehensively,” he added.
Giovanni Audiffredi, the brand new editor in chief of Italy’s Esquire.
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Audifreddi presently contributes commonly to Italy’s progressive newspaper La Repubblica and particularly its fashion-leaning weekly complement D. He’s additionally editorial and content material director of Milan-based PR agency Attila & Co. Earlier than that, he had spent greater than 14 years of his profession at rival writer Condé Nast the place he contributed to guide AD and Vainness Honest earlier than taking up the position of Italy’s GQ editor in chief in 2019.
In his new position at Hearst Italy, Audifreddi can even lead the editorial course for the Males’s Well being and Runner’s World glossies, supporting these titles’ present editor in chief Rosario Palazzolo.
On Monday, Hearst additionally introduced that Nik Piras, presently trend director at DLui, the lads’s complement to La Repubblica, is becoming a member of Hearst as trend director throughout Esquire, Males’s Well being and Runner’s World.
Nik Piras, the brand new trend director at Italy’s Esquire, Males’s Well being and Runner’s World.
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Piras and Audiffredi have beforehand labored collectively at GQ, as the previous was the title’s trend director in the course of the latter’s tenure on the journal. Piras reduce his enamel at girls’s magazines together with Amica and Velvet.
In mild of those appointments, Hearst stated that the Italian version of Esquire can have eight printed points in 2024.- Martino Carrera
