THE FASH PACK

As part of McKinsey's three-month examination of Conde Nast's financial operations (the evaluations end next week), a selection of magazines have been asked to cut budgets by about 25 percent, according to the New York Observer. Teen Vogue is believed to be in that group, the Observer's report continues, but it's unknown if Vogue or W are.

Although top executives have not come out with specifics on any cuts, sources say that money could be tightened by lessening expenses, eliminating freelance work, laying off employees or putting out less issues a year. Conde Nast CEO Chuck Townsend has said there are no plans to fold more magazines.

The masthead at Teen Vogue already seems to be changing, though. Senior fashion editor Aya Kanai has become West Coast contributing fashion editor, and Taylor Tomasi, formerly accessories director, has transtioned to Marie Claire as style and accessories director. Teen Vogue's Joanna Hillman, senior fashion market editor, has moved to Harper's Bazaar and was seen with the Bazaar crew all through New York Fashion Week, according to Fashionologie. Are anymore changes in the wind?

Magazines are in a really bad place at the moment; I mean really bad. WWD reports that this year's September issues will be a lot smaller than usual across the board. Let's just say that carrying our September issue will be a lot easier this year.

Publishers are said to have resorted to pushing closing dates back and dramatically dropping the page rates to encourage brands to spend on ad space. Although many were optimistic that things would improve despite the dramatic decline in ad pages over the past six months, recent figures prove otherwise.

According to reports, the September issues will have up to 30% less ads that previous years, with many publishers pleased that they have not lost more.

However, many luxury brands have dropped their campaigns for their pre-fall collections in the summer issues to focus their budgets on the fall, so hopefully the situation will improve soon.

The last (and only) time I went to Stonehenge, I took pictures of rocks and had a bizarre conversation about Vin Diesel lookalikes with my friend. It was windy, my fringe was blowing straight up, and unfortunately someone has evidence. Not the best look.

A Katie Shillingford-styled shoot for the April Dazed & Confused comes together much better. There's snow, sci-fi and strange eyeliner. What more could you want?

The rest of the shoot after the jump

Carb-haters unite! Cindy Crawford destroys an innocent loaf for this Michael Thompson shoot in the April issue of US Allure.

When she's not ripping baked goods, the 43-year-old model shows that, well, she's not ageing much. The shoot gets pretty racy, with one 'look' consisting of nothing more than skin creams.

Side note: my university grammar teacher (yes, grammar) went to high school with Crawford in Illinois. She described her old classmate as 'just another farm girl', or something like that. These pictures say otherwise.

See more images (semi-NSFW) after the jump

Your faithful Fash Pack would recognise a certain semi-mulleted 'former' rapper anywhere. And what I'm saying is that Kanye West took his new girl, Amber Rose, and an abbreviated posse to the Peter Jensen and Ann-Sofie Back show tonight. Seems he's serious about that fashion career because he picked one of the week's most buzzed-about shows to (nearly) upstage.


Although Rivkie, Naomi and I were just as pleased to see the short-haired blonde directly in front of us. Kate Lanphear (fashion director of US Elle) showed up to the Topshop venue, and it's seriously the jackpot of the fashion lottery to sit a foot away from the person who can even make High School Musical actors look badass.