Conde Nast to shutter Mademoiselle. The "deteriorating advertising environment" is blamed for the closing of the 66-year-old title, where Sylvia Plath first
cut her teeth on the journalistic life. While Mlle's recent content has devolved into
Cosmo-like treatises on how to please your man in bed and where to buy the clothing that will lure him in that general direction, it is more than a bit upsetting (particularly to someone who's trying to eke out a living as a writer) to see yet another Conde Nast-owned title (
Details and
Women's Sports & Fitness; Fairchild bought
Details out and launched a revamped version) fall victim to the great advertising contraction of the past 12 months.
posted by maura
on Oct 1, 2001 -
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