Newsstand Sales For 2010 September Issues Drastically Declined For Elle, Vogue, Instyle & W Magazine

According to statistics from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, major fashion magazines sales took a dip compared to 2009 September issues. Here is the list:
W Magazine down 14 percent to 30,000 copies.

Elle down 10 percent to 390,000 copies.

 InStyle down 6 percent to 800,000 copies.

Vogue  down 5.5 percent to 540,000 copies.

Marie Claire up 1 percent to 338,273 copies.

Glamour up 1 percent to 624,000 copies.

Harper's Bazaar up 22 percent to 255,000 copies.

W Magazine Creative Director Jody Quon Quits Her Job After Six Months

Visual wizard/guru Jody Quon has resigned from W magazine after creatively leading just three issues (including November’s “Art Issue,” which digitally draped Kim Kardashian in the signature red-backed Futura bold italic phrases of artist Barbara Kruger).

“It was a mutual decision and her position won’t be filled,” a W spokesperson said, who also noted that the departure makes design director Joseph Logan the magazine’s top creative. 

In April, W editor-in-chief Stefano Tonchi 

stole Jody Quon from New York magazine, where she was photo director. I'm sure she won't be unemployed long! The cover to the right was directed by Quon for W's Sept issue.

Vogue Paris Ex Fashion Director Heading to W Magazine

Stylist Marie-Amelie Sauve, who was Vogue Paris fashion director until last year, is rumored to be joining the W Magazine. Sauve has a working relationship with newly-named W editor Stefano Tonchi, and with the confirmed departure of creative director Dennis Freedman and the likely departures of fashion director Alex White and senior contributing fashion editor Camilla Nickerson, the time couldn't be better.

W Magazine New Editor Stefano Tonchi DUI Charge Dropped Takes A Plea Deal

Stefano Tonchi will start as W editor on April 12, was scheduled to go on trial yesterday in Beverly Hills for a DUI, Gawker reports. Last January, Beverly Hills police stopped Tonchi for a "routine traffic violation"; when Tonchi refused a breathalyzer test at the scene, he was arrested when he failed a battery of field sobriety tests.

Police filed a single misdemeanor DUI charge against Tonchi last February, and he was arraigned last March, but trial was delayed for over a year while the defense filed several motions to suppress evidence. Tonchi's attorney confirmed to Gawker that a plea was worked out shortly before trial was to begin yesterday morning. The DUI charge was dropped and Tonchi was allowed to plead to only the initial traffic violation, failure to stop at a limit line. Tonchi himself did not appear in court.

W Magazine Creative Director Dennis Freeman Quits For A Job At Vogue

A week after Stefano Tonchi was confirmed as the new editor-in-chief of W, comes the announcement that, as expected, longtime creative director Dennis Freedman is leaving the magazine. Freedman, who has been at W Magazine for almost twenty years, confirmed the news toWWD: “I have had the most extraordinary experience working at W.

W Magazine New Editor Chief Stefano Tonchi West Village Home

For more photos of Stefano's home click here

W Magazine Layoffs

James Reginato has left W Magazine, reports The Daily. Reginato was revered for his exclusive in-depth profiles of society types and royals, often conducted in their elaborate homes that had never before appeared in publication. Despite repeated requests, neither Reginato nor a W representative could be reached for comment at this time. Further layoffs are expected at W next week. Next on the chopping blocking Emily Popp. The unemployment office is busy these days for real. -Dispatch