Shoe designer Patrick Cox has recently opened a cake shop in London’s Soho. The Missoni family have a hotel in Edinburgh. Ralph Lauren has a restaurant in Paris. Designers everywhere are extending their brands – and why not? They sell a lifestyle after all. Publishers Conde Nast are about to roll out a chain of
Yes, I know this is not magazine related, but Puffin Books are 70 this year, and they have commissioned six artists/designers to choose a favourite book from their childhood, and illustrate the cover. Probably not one for the kids this, as they retail at £100 a shot, but if you fancy getting your hands on
Nice idea from fashion retailer LK Bennett to get involved in a supplement produced by InStyle magazine. My old Scotland on Sunday colleague and editor of InStyle Eilidh MackAskill, says the 24 page large format supplement, labelled Get Smart, will be a “huge hit” with InStyle readers. Good business sense for LK Bennett too. Distributed
San Francisco Zine Fest kicks off on 4th September 2010. It’s a free two-day event that has been going since 2002.
With Tesco about to enter the consumer magazine market, I’m thinking Waitrose may not be far behind. Take these offerings in print from a recent visit to the upmarket supermarket chain. Waitrose Kitchen, now up to issue two, doing what I thought Waitrose Food Illustrated was supposed to do. Then a tabloid newspaper called Waitrose
And I thought Loaded had closed! IPC Media, who own the title have managed to sell it to Vitality, who produce Attitude. Let’s see what they do with it. In the meantime, check out this set of classic Loaded covers from over the years. This story reminded me of a 1996 Loaded spin-off – Eat