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Fashion Network
20-05-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Bedford Media Announces Michael Quinn as Global Image Director of i-D
Bedford Media has announced the appointment of Michael Quinn as global image director of i-D, a new role. The company said he'll 'lead all image and visual aspects across print and digital, which also includes commissioning and talent negotiations; working closely with i-D global editor-in-chief and chief brand officer Thom Bettridge to continue to define i-D across all touch points, including its emerging commercial channels'. Hailing from Liverpool, Quinn began his career in New York as an agent representing creative talents 'where he played an integral role in launching the Paris-based creative agency ArtList'. He moved into media 10 years ago and has held positions at Interview Magazine, Document Journal, Essence & Sundial Media Group, SSENSE, and Highsnobiety. He's not new to i-D having worked with the new team recently as image consultant for i-D 374 'The Unknown Issue'. His first full-time edition in his new post will be the i-D 375 issue launching in September.
Fashion Network
20-05-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Bedford Media Announces Michael Quinn as Global Image Director of i-D
Bedford Media has announced the appointment of Michael Quinn as global image director of i-D, a new role. The company said he'll 'lead all image and visual aspects across print and digital, which also includes commissioning and talent negotiations; working closely with i-D global editor-in-chief and chief brand officer Thom Bettridge to continue to define i-D across all touch points, including its emerging commercial channels'. Hailing from Liverpool, Quinn began his career in New York as an agent representing creative talents 'where he played an integral role in launching the Paris-based creative agency ArtList'. He moved into media 10 years ago and has held positions at Interview Magazine, Document Journal, Essence & Sundial Media Group, SSENSE, and Highsnobiety. He's not new to i-D having worked with the new team recently as image consultant for i-D 374 'The Unknown Issue'. His first full-time edition in his new post will be the i-D 375 issue launching in September.
The Guardian
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘Tangible & collectible': i-D back on shelves as gen Z revives fashion magazines
Like point and shoot cameras, vinyl records and brick phones, fashion magazines are having a revival primarily because of nostalgia-driven demand from gen Z. On Tuesday, i-D magazine makes its long-awaited return to UK newsstands. The publication has been absent since its parent company, Vice, declared bankruptcy in 2023. Since then, it has been acquired by the model turned entrepreneur Karlie Kloss through her Bedford Media conglomerate. At a party to celebrate i-D's relaunch, Kloss described it as 'an extraordinary piece of fashion history', explaining that she bought it as she 'didn't want it to die'. 'There has been a significant growth in interest in both making and acquiring print magazines,' says Jeremy Leslie, an art director and founder of MagCulture, an online platform and shop that specialises in independent magazines. 'Young people are really interested in print. They use the internet but print is where the excitement lies. They want something that is tangible and collectible.' While mass market magazines are suffering – the watchdog the Audit Bureau of Circulations said nearly half of the magazines it examined saw their print circulation decline by 10% or more in 2024 – luxury and indie titles are flourishing. A spokesperson for the National Portrait Gallery in London, which is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the Face, the trailblazing magazine that championed youth culture throughout the 80s and 90s, said that in its opening month it received more than 28,000 visitors, 14% of whom were aged under 25. Fifty years after Central Saint Martins launched its degree in fashion communication, demand for places is at an all-time high. The course helped spawn the careers of people including the former Esquire editor Jeremy Langmead and Ib Kamara, the current editor-in-chief of Dazed. Meanwhile, 20 years after Grazia, Britain's first ever weekly glossy magazine, was launched, its circulation is up 46% year on year with high demand fuelling the launch of standalone biannual issues dedicated to beauty and interiors. Thom Bettridge, the new editor-in-chief of i-D, agrees the narrative around the decline of print is nonsense. 'Print has been dying since the second I started working in print,' he says. 'I'm 10 years deep and it's still here.' Bettridge has taken inspiration from Terry Jones, who founded the magazine in 1980. Delving into its vast archives, Bettridge homed in on Jones's DIY approach: 'It was a lot like people make stuff on the internet today. I see it as a precursor to that. Even though it was the deepest in the archive, it felt the most relevant for today.' Bettridge's launch issue, entitled 'The Unknown Issue', features Enza Khoury, an 18-year-old from Ohio who was found through an open callout overseen by the Euphoria casting director Jennifer Venditti. Two additional covers feature Naomi Campbell and the singer FKA twigs – who previously appeared in 1986 and 2012 respectively, before they became household names. Bettridge has kept the title's signature wink logo and his aim is that each magazine is collected by readers. He and Kloss still have the issues they previously bought themselves. Leslie, who stocks more than 800 magazines at his shop in Clerkenwell, London, says he is seeing more of a focus on the design of the magazine's spine: 'Customers are keeping them and stacking them on their bookshelves.' The median price for an independent magazine hovers around the £15 mark. On eBay, old editions of Dazed fetch up to 10 times their original price (£7) while 90s editions of the Face command triple figures. i-D, which will be printed twice a year, costs £20. Bettridge describes it as incredibly dense: 'Even though it sounds like a lot, if you look at our peer group, some are 700 pages long, weigh 3kg and cost £50. We have tried to make it as accessible as possible.' As for who is going to be consuming it, Bettridge doesn't have a typical reader in mind. Instead he describes them as 'a citizen of the internet'. Features include an op-ed entitled 'Don't be cool' and 'Four anti-trend solutions for modern life'. Bettridge says: 'Everyone knows about trends, you know, and no one wants to be trendy. Everyone wants to be unique.'
New York Times
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
i-D Magazine Gets a New Life Just as Cool as Its Old Life
On Monday evening in Paris, Karlie Kloss and the fashion designer Rick Owens were reminiscing about their first meeting. It was, Ms. Kloss said, 17 years ago when she was so fresh to modeling that her mom accompanied her to the fitting. What a difference a decade and a half makes. Today Ms. Kloss sits on the Mount Rushmore of models who are household names. With her husband, Joshua Kushner, she also runs Bedford Media, a burgeoning media conglomerate, and it's in that capacity that she reunited with Mr. Owens on a still night at the trailing end of Paris Fashion Week. Mr. Owens and his wife, Michèle Lamy, had offered Ms. Kloss their austere Left Bank maison for a dinner celebrating the relaunch of i-D magazine, which the model-turned-mogul bought in 2023 after its previous owner Vice filed for bankruptcy. 'It's an extraordinary piece of fashion history,' Ms. Kloss said over the clinking of Champagne glasses. 'I just didn't want it to die.' The mission of the magazine, Thom Bettridge, i-D's new editor in chief, said was to restore 'the spirit of what it was but for right now.' Image Karlie Kloss, center, sitting beside the cover star Enza Khoury and her father, Adam. Credit... Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
