If New York Magazine’s online Intelligencer column doesn’t make “Five Months Later: What’s Happened to Everyone at Men’s Vogue” a broader, regular feature, then I pledge to take up the mantle of updating the whereabouts of laid-off staffers at formerly much-watched magazines. The piece is a fascinating, if limited study of who lands where when an operation is shuttered. Here’s the breakdown: Of the 28 Moguettes, 10 landed staff jobs (five from the art department alone) and four appear to have significant freelance gigs. So, about half seem to be gainfully employed, and four remain at Conde Nast, including Editorial Director Anna Wintour, natch, and EIC Jay Fielden who must be the luckiest man on the planet: For Mogue’s first outing as a back-of-book, twice-yearly supplement to Vogue, Fielden produced a whopping 20 pages of editorial. I hope he’s getting used to spending time with his family.
As for Domino, which, unlike Mogue, is often described as much-mourned, I can report so far that most of the moms — including two of three at the masthead’s top — are dutifully avoiding their children.