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10/14/09

ByeBye Men.Style.Com

Men.Style.com - the online home of Details & GQ - is gone. GQ.com and Details.com now masters their own domains. This move is the direct result of Conde Nast Digital's ongoing strategy: developing individual brands to put the emphasis back on a site's direct lineage to its print version. 


GQ.com has just been launched and what's left of Men.Style.com has been merged into the new GQ.com site. Hard to see the changes, the first phase of GQ.com seems to only be a soft rebranding of Men.Style. The new Details.com is coming out next week, let's see how it looks...


10/09/09

Dating 2.0


No doubt 2009 is being the year of the blog taking over the fashion world. More than ever fashion bloggers are in the limelight - Tavi Gevinson aka StyleRookie, 13 years old, graced the front cover of both POP and Love Magazine and recently posed next to American Vogue's Creative Director Grace Coddington at NYC Fashion Week. In the meantime bringing up to life a blog seems like a 'no choice' for labels (ie CHANEL), retailers (ie MatchesAsos) and magazines (ie Vogue). But what if a blog was just not enough to keep up with those fashion customers/readers?  

New era is coming now with the launch of TRULYMADLYDATING.COM - Conde Nast International's first dating site supported by GLAMOUR.COM and GQ.COM. It says the website is 'created to unite glamorous girls with fashion-conscious GQ-reading boys to create matches made in style heaven'. Mmmm what a program... Search my match, search my fans, see who recently viewed me, ... you get the whole idea. Conde Nast is obviously hoping to increase its 'fanbase' and find an alternative to advertising to get money in.  To celebrate the launch of TRULYMADLYDATING.COM Conde Nast offers a 7 day free trial. 

I have 7 days to find out if 'MojitoMan' is the one then. Not convinced. At all.