French Magazine: FORNASETTI FOR SALE: A CASE OF CREATIVE MARKETING
For half a century, the Italian designer Piero Fornasetti turned household objects into high fashion, decorating them with surreal landscapes, imaginary architecture and haunting faces. ...Today, a decade after his death but long before the stream of Fornasetti products dries up, Christie's Los Angeles will test the power of his name at auction. Someone may ride off on Fornasetti's faux malachite bike (estimated at $3,000-$4,000).In this design event of the spring,...
Emap buys French magazine publisher,
Takeover
EMAP, the magazines, radio and exhibitions group, yesterday strengthened its position in the French magazine market with the acquisition of Groupe Taitbout, publisher of France's third-largest monthly magazine.Groupe Taitbout's flagship title is Pleine Vie, which targets the over-50s market, mainly women, and had an average monthly circulation in 1998 of 825,000.The deal also brings Emap a travel business called Taitbout Voyages, and ETC, a custom publishing...
French Magazine: Why Kerem Is Leaving the Country
KEREM WAS A 17-year-old in Istanbul when he first read about San Francisco in a French magazine. He gazed at pictures of parents marching in the Gay Freedom Day parade with signs that said, "My son's gay and that's OK." He couldn't let his friends see the article that caught his interest, but he made up his mind that he would find a way to come to San Francisco. "I had learned there is a place in the world where you can go...
French Magazine: PIONEER OF FRENCH PRESS DIES AT AGE 76
R. THEROND A FORCE IN PHOTOJOURNALISM
Roger Therond, who turned French magazine Paris Match into one of the world's best outlets for photojournalism, died June 16 at home in Paris, the magazine said. He was 76.Mr. Therond joined Paris Match in 1949, moving up the ranks until he became director and editor in chief in 1976. During his more than 50-year career, he was known for having an eye for picking breathtaking photos."We have lost one of the most original and captivating figures of the...
French Magazine: JORDANIANS ACCUSE ISRAEL OF PEACE PLOY
Jordanian officials said Sunday that an Israeli invitation for direct peace talks was a ploy and there was little chance King Hussein would accept.Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy, seizing on comments by the king published in a French magazine and interpreting it as a possible diplomatic overture to hold direct negotiations, Sunday invited the monarch to Jerusalem and open peace talks. ``I will have to see the text (of the king's statements), but I can tell you that what is...