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pimg src="http://gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2008/12/79501181.jpg" alt="79501181.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" / The Waverly Inn was crawling with Condé Nast insiders earlier tonight, some of whom had been waiting as long as 20 years for the appetizer: The hot, delicious rumor that Si Newhouse was meeting in Paris with Carine Roitfeld to work out the final details of the emFrench Vogue/em editor's move to New York, where she is expected to take over flagship emVogue/em from Anna Wintour immediately after New Year's. It did not go unnoticed when Condé Nast overlord Newhouse departed early for his annual three-week December vacation in Vienna; it turns out he needed time for his meeting with a href="http://gawker.com/358252/french-vogue-editor-so-much-funner-than-stupid-anna-wintour"uptight Wintour's chic Parisian counterpart./a/p pCorporate colleagues also arched their eyebrows when Wintour told a reporter at the National Magazine Awards to "a href="http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/11/in_which_we_offend_anna_wintou.html"Just go away/a" after she asked about a href="http://gawker.com/5091731/is-anna-wintour-ready-to-retire"rumors/a of the editor-in-chief's impending retirement. The touchy reply added to their suspicion that Wintour, who just this past June celebrated two decades atop emVogue/em, was worried about being pushed out by Newhouse before she'd lined up a soft landing elsewhere. Her purported $2-million-per-year salary is seen as a hindrance, given the state of the economy, in lining up a follow-on fashion gig of the sort that seems natural, post emVogue/em: creative director at LVMH, that sort of thing./p pWhether the palace intrigue at the world's fashion bible unfolds according to the Waverly buzz or not, it is clear the emVogue/em masthead is not at equilibrium. Wintour in recent years positioned herself as a sort of mini-mogul over various baby emVogue/ems. a href="http://gawker.com/5072306/magazine-editors-fall-back-to-earth"But this fall, she's fallen back down to earth/a. The closure of emMen's Vogue/em was a a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/10312008/business/its_nasty_over_at_cond__136179.htm"major personal embarrassment/a. It followed a a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/10312008/business/its_nasty_over_at_cond__136179.htm"possibly fatal blow/a to the emVogue Living/em experiment and the a href="http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/10/conde_nast_cans_fashion_rocks.html"cancellation of emFashion Rocks/em/a. Worst of all, it came amid a href="http://gawker.com/5049748/the-price-of-passing-on-runway"slipping numbers at emVogue/em itself/a, as competitors leveraged reality television to undermine the title's dominance over the world of fashion./p pThe poor performance surely undermined Wintour within Condé Nast. But even if the legendary editor-from-hell still had Si Newhouse's full support, there's the issue of personal satisfaction: Wintour could hardly be expected to content herself with a downgrade from "editorial director" of a magazine collection to mere editor-in-chief of a single title, shrinking in ad pages and influence. Even if Wintour does not yet realize that, Newhouse surely does. Thus we see the unwelcome rumors of her retirement in the tabloids. And so it may be that a French revolution comes to emVogue/em in January 2009./p br style="clear: both;"/
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