Mark Guiducci
Lauren Sherman
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November 24, 2025
Armani Succession Murmurs & A Vanity Fair Scandalette
News and notes on potential succession plans at Armani, Guiducci's controversial Olivia Nuzzi hire, and a round of mass layoffs at Hearst.
Lauren Sherman
& Sarah Shapiro
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November 11, 2025
Guiducci Staffs Up & Santo Domingo’s ShopMy Play
News and notes on Mark Guiducci’s new hires at Vanity Fair, Lauren Santo Domingo’s investment in ShopMy, and department stores’ fall foot traffic patterns.
Lauren Sherman
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October 15, 2025
Guiducci’s VF Debut & Yumi Shin’s Next Move
News and notes on retail veteran Yumi Shin’s jump to Nordstrom, Mark Guiducci’s first official Vanity Fair issue, and the waning era of the working model.
Lauren Sherman
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September 15, 2025
Stefano Cantino’s Gucci Ouster & Mark Guiducci’s Debut ‘VF’ Cover
News and notes on Stefano Cantino’s exit as Gucci C.E.O., Mark Guiducci’s first Hollywood cover for Vanity Fair, and the latest on Ssense’s bankruptcy case.
Lauren Sherman, Sarah Shapiro & Dylan Byers
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August 27, 2025
Kirsty Godso’s Vuori Payday & Mark Guiducci’s Talent Fishing
A roundup of fashion industry intel: Vuori’s apparent seven-figure ambassador deal with Kirsty Godso, the retailers scrambling to avoid tariff-related revenue hits, and Mark Guiducci’s public hunt for name-brand Vanity Fair hires.
Lauren Sherman & Sarah Shapiro
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August 12, 2025
Vanity Fair’s Guiducci Facelift & Target’s Stock Slump
News and notes on Mark Guiducci’s Vanity Fair shake-up and Target’s spiraling market value.
Lauren Sherman
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August 11, 2025
Susan Plagemann’s WME Exit & More Vogue Succession Theories
Inside the latest fashion industry convulsions: Susan Plagemann’s departure from WME Fashion and the group’s next moves, the latest names to emerge in the U.S. Vogue succession race, and a close look at Mark Guiducci’s first month at Vanity Fair.
Lauren Sherman & Sarah Shapiro
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June 11, 2025
Vanity Fair’s Mark Guiducci Era & Apple’s WWDC Guest List
A primer on the latest fashion world rumblings: What media insiders are saying about Mark Guiducci’s appointment to lead Vanity Fair’s post-Radhika era; a close reading of the guest list for Apple’s annual developers conference; and a feel-good retail story from the wilds of San Francisco.
The Vanity Fair Diaries
The scroll of contenders for the VF job is becoming endless—a bizarre, if unsurprising, phenomenon for a career-defining-ish role that the right people want to ignore and the wrong people covet, and that will be handed out by an inscrutable duo who won’t be in their chairs forever.