Tom Florio Leaving Conde Nast: Vogue Publisher Latest To Jump Ship

Vogue publisher Tom Florio is leaving Conde Nast after a 25-year career with the magazine company.

Florio told the Wall Street Journal that he wants to be a CEO.

"I want to be CEO of my own company," he said. "We already have a really good CEO."

In addition to Vogue, Florio oversaw a group of magazines including Bon Appetit and Conde Nast Traveler.

The company said he will not be replaced, and the publishers of the various magazines under him will now report to CEO Chuck Townsend.

Florio's departure is the latest in a string of high-profile departures from the fashion publication.

One of Vogue's top editors, Sally Singer, left the magazine last week to become Editor-in-Chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. And Patrick O'Connell, Vogue's director of communications, also jumped ship last week after 12 years at Vogue.

Comments

[Nepotism]

11:30 PM on 06/21/2010

Another one bites the dust!

[ConjureMan]

10:01 AM on 06/21/2010

Well at first glance I thought it was a pix of Lady GaGa, turned out to be Lady GagGag.

[bluguy8]

06:12 PM on 06/18/2010

Vogues time has gone. time to make it relevant to someone in 2010. She still thinks its 1950 . Time to move on .

[poo-tee-weet]

04:24 PM on 06/18/2010

Hold on to the masthead; the ship is sinking.

[unscum]

04:16 PM on 06/18/2010

Stupid, Stupid Stupid, drugs and alcohol? Why do people do it?

[logic-a-go-go]

03:40 PM on 06/18/2010

Why does this woman's ugly mug constantly assault us readers at HuffPo?

[marignymitch]

03:32 PM on 06/18/2010

Who could resist working with a self-important, abusive hag? Stumps me.

[Puller58]

03:16 PM on 06/18/2010

I can state that this is the most vapid article I've seen yet in HuffPo Media. Well done.

[TN]

03:08 PM on 06/18/2010

Can you imagine having all of your concern to be your looks. Just look at that woman, she must look perfect and it must consume her to look like that.

I was like that in my teens, but I grew up.

[sulalives]

01:20 PM on 06/18/2010

OH MY SO LONELY AT THE TOP!!! PLEASE!!! I have no problem with anyone who wants to hire more american and european and asian and euro asians Yo GO BOYEE TOM FLORIO --now let us move on

[Zebrawalk]

12:38 PM on 06/18/2010

Yawn. Someone wake me when something interesting is posted.

[JRsNana]

02:11 PM on 06/18/2010

You start.

[BonzaSheila]

11:58 AM on 06/18/2010

Anna Wintour, the Evil Fur Hag. She must not validated with my magazine buying dollars.
I haven't read Vogue since I was a teenager, and I don't know anyone who reads this garbage.

[jpeters100]

03:43 PM on 06/18/2010

You have been fanned.

[bluguy8]

06:13 PM on 06/18/2010

she reads it

[Dr Confuso]

11:41 AM on 06/18/2010

Goodness. She's so witty, charming, warm, chatty and loveable, how could anyone possibly consider leaving? I'll know there's trouble afoot when I read that the overstuffed, oversisized, over inflated, overdressed, overdone but never over himself, Andre' Leon Talley finally finds somebody else to tolerate his comically arrogant presence.

[standish]

04:07 PM on 06/18/2010

Interesting comments about Andre Leon Talley, but if you watched "The September Issue" documentary you can't help but feel sorry for him. What he is clearly attempting (and failing miserably in trying) is to be another Diana Vreeland (a woman he openly admires) with his over-the-top comments and inane nattering about the importance of silk underwear and "darling" this and "darling" that. It sounded eccentric and quotable coming from Vreeland when she prattled on about the Duchess of Windsor and Babe Paley and Baroness Rothschild. It's just pathetic being mimicked by Talley. There's something very sad about him; when "Vogue" switched its idolatry from supermodels and society dames to celebrities on its cover, Talley became an overnight anachronism: It's hard to croon and swoon about being chic when you have Donald Trump's wife on the cover. "Vogue" is just as much about money and status these days as it is clothes and glamour. There isn't that sense of privilege connected to it anymore, which is probably what Wintour intended: that any woman can now afford the clothes in the magazine, not just a select few with the bucks to wear original Paris couture and be photographed by Irving Penn. Old New York society is dead and buried and with it went Talley.

[Mrs Putrid Festring]

12:50 PM on 06/19/2010

Interesting post. ...saw The September Issue and was amazed by Grace Coddington. However you feel about fashion or the publishing business you have to give it up for her. However, I could not figure out exactly what Andre Leon Talley does. A rather large lap dog if you ask me. Tennis anyone?

[youngrasc]

01:47 AM on 06/21/2010

I love you!

[PresidentRobertBooth]

11:26 AM on 06/18/2010

Anna Wintour doesn't care about departing plebs.

There are always 10 more waiting to replace them

[Chauncey1186]

10:49 AM on 06/18/2010

Are these people even relevant anymore?