Tina Brown

I still can’t believe she thought SHE was the star.

Tiny Brain

Time or Newsweek should release an issue speculating what Tina Browns career would be like if it had survived

R3 She does a sad little podcast now.

She's married to Harold Evans so she's set for life.

Here you go.

Editor Andre Leon Talley, who worked for Brown's rival, Vogue editor Anna Wintour, apparently wrote Brown a note when she left Vanity Fair, saying, "You are tacky, tacky, tacky, dowdy, dowdy, dowdy, and I hope never to see you again in your borrowed designer dresses."

R7 what happened between them?

Brown and Wintour hate each other, R8, and Talley was leaving to work for Wintour at Vogue when he wrote that note to Brown.

(He did not write the note to Brown when she was leaving VF for The New Yorker -- that detail is wrong.)

R9 Oh. Why?

Brown and Wintour competed to be the pet of Conde Nast publisher S.I. Newhouse, R10. Wintour was brought over to the U.S. to edit House & Garden and then, shortly after, Vogue -- both Conde Nast publications -- while Brown was editor at Vanity Fair (another Conde Nast publication) and the it thing in New York media circles. She was very threatened by Wintour's arrival in New York.

Brown also claimed (and probably still does) that Wintour's father and Brown's father hated each other, for some reason.

Tina Brown had the most nauseatingly fabulous Sutton Place maisonette.

Tina and La Wintour together

"As a young girl, I grew up admiring your husband"

Bump

Ok, bump again. Tina used to be THE tastemaker in the 80s and 90s, the arbiter of all that was hot and not. So weird how irrelevant she's become. It's almost as if she wasn't into the scene anymore and stopped trying. Which I would sort of respect.

I remember spotting her on the street on the UES one morning, walking with her children and the nanny. She wore a crisp silvery trenchcoat and looked chic to me.

It offends me that these two hideous Brit gollums dictated taste and style for years. Thanks Jesus for Graydon C.

I stopped reading Vanity fair some time ago because they had 3 obsessions that they would not move on from : 1. Marilyn Monroe 2 Princess Diana 3. The Kennedy's . The worst were the constant crowing about "never before seen" candid photos. How many pictures do we need to see of druggie Marilyn with her finger in her mouth and an expression of faux innocence ? Or Diana doing the coy half smile? Or greedy Jackie grinning like a bug eyed maniac while surveying her new purchases? Though to be fair, this might have been under Graydon Carter's tenure. I can't remember.

[quote] Editor Andre Leon Talley, who worked for Brown's rival, Vogue editor Anna Wintour, apparently wrote Brown a note when she left Vanity Fair, saying, "You are tacky, tacky, tacky, dowdy, dowdy, dowdy, and I hope never to see you again in your borrowed designer dresses."

And she wrote back, "All of them sewn together still could not cover your morbidly obese immensity."

Interesting thread so far.

Keep it going.

When Princess Diana died, Brown wrote a piece about her death (almost every hack on Earth did at the time) she included the observation that dying in Paris, in August only added to the tragedy i.e. no one chic spends time in Paris in August (vacation season for Parisiennes)

well, something like that.

R21, Jesus!

Anyone has read her memoirs?? They were so faux modest...

I liked her Diana book and her VF memoirs, both dishy.

It’s actually depressing to remember how good Vanity Fair used to be, in the Tina / Graydon days.

Tina Brown’s hair and nose should have disqualified her from ever giving anyone tips on style and grace. She must have used the Rebecca Brooks method of moving up the ladder.

How these frumps make it so high up the ladder is mystifying.

The Tina Vanity Fair years had a certain sass and bite to them. The Graydon years were all about celebrity ass-kissing. I was always disgusted by how, after years of brilliantly skewering celebrities in Spy magazine, Graydon became the biggest starfucker of them all.

It’s like what happened to Howard Stern – he was good at trashing phony celebrities until he became one, and then it became clear that’s what he wanted all along.

R18 Tina was into Diana, Graydon was obsessed with Marilyn and the Kennedys. I don’t read Vanity Fair anymore, but from what I can see it looks woke and dreary. I used to love all the unapologetic glitz and glam.

Perhaps Andre Leon Talley fails to appreciate his unintended irony in sending such a tacky note to Brown.

“Or greedy Jackie grinning like a bug eyed maniac while surveying her new purchases?”

Oh, R18 this line gives me genuine pleasure, an authentic LOL

Does anyone remember Tina’s Talk magazine? I think that’s what kind of did her career in.

She's no one's favorite Tina.