Condé Nast history

In 1911, Nast bought interests in two other magazines, House & Garden, and Travel.

The article “Class Publication” by Condé Montrose Nast was published in ‘The Merchants and Manufacturer’s Journal’ in June 1913.The article “Class Publication” by Condé Montrose Nast was published in ‘The Merchants and Manufacturer’s Journal’ in June 1913.

In 1914, Condé Nast introduced Vanity Fair, a magazine that quickly set publishing standards in arts, politics, sports, and society.

In 1916, Condé Nast ventured something no one else tried before.

In 1921, Crowninshield moved into Nast's Park Avenue apartment.

1922: Condé Nast Publications (CNP) is incorporated.

Founded in 1928 as a fashion booklet distributed in men's clothing stores, that magazine grew into a preeminent source for probing magazine journalism, fiction, essays, and eclectic coverage of subjects from food to financial planning for the 25-to-39-year-old male audience.

On October 29, 1929, the stock value of Condé Nast Publications plummeted from $93 per share to $4.50.

In 1930, Clare Boothe Brokaw (later Luce) went to work for Condé Nast Publications.

Already in 1932, Vogue placed a color photo on its cover, which was revolutionary.

By 1933, she was the managing editor of Vanity Fair.

In 1934, Bergdorf Goodman spent over $16,000 for about 16 pages of advertising; the magazine gave the store over 60 pages of editorial space.

1936: Vogue and Vanity Fair are merged.

In 1941, Nast developed health problems.

Glamour was the last publication Nast personally developed for the CNP collection; three years later, in 1942, Condé Nast died.

A new era was marked for the company as it began a period of expansion in 1959, with the launch of its first licensed edition – Vogue Australia.

The German arm of Condé Nast International is founded in Munich in 1978.

Father to Sons and Rampant Growth: 1979-89

Seebohm, Caroline, The Man Who Was Vogue: The Life and Times of Condé Nast, The Viking Press, 1982.

In 1983, after a 46-year break, Vanity Fair issues resumed, under editorial management of British journalist Tina Brown.

Around the same time, CNP finalized its purchase of Wired magazine (rumored to be $75 million) and made plans to bring Newhouse's famed New Yorker magazine (bought in 1985 and run independently through Advance Publications) into the Condé Nast flock.

In the fall of 1987 came Condé Nast's Traveler, a monthly magazine for affluent globetrotters, which incurred a startup cost of approximately $40 million.

1988: CNP acquires Details magazine.

In fact, CNP engaged in a highly visible conflict with General Motors Corp. regarding advertising rates in late 1989.

As late as 1990, CNP upheld its rule of never cutting rates.

Despite a growing slump in the magazine publishing industry, CNP started yet another glossy spread, Allure, in March 1991.

In 1992, CNP also collaborated with Spiegel, Inc., the retail giant, to develop automatic subscription renewals, by which a subscription is automatically renewed each year until the subscriber cancels.

None other than Nelson Mandela guest edited an issue of Vogue Paris in 1993.

In April 1994 the 81-year-old Liberman was succeeded by 36-year-old James Truman, former editor of Details magazine, giving the media cause for lively speculation.

The results of that exploration began to manifest themselves in April 1995, when Advance Publications (Condé Nast's parent) and seven other major newspaper publishers formed a new company to create a national network of local on-line newspapers and periodicals.

In October 1997, the first issue of German GQ Gentleman's Quarterly hits the stands.

Soon after CNP reacted to the "information highway" hype, buying a 15 percent interest (the remaining interest was bought in 1998) in Wired, the self-anointed "house organ of the digital revolution."

In 1999 the company entered discussions with Walt Disney to buy Fairchild Publications for $650 million.

A shopping magazine called Lucky debuted in 2001, geared to young women.

Although the New Yorker would still maintain its autonomy, CNP higher-ups believed the move would help the sophisticate regain its financial footing (which it did by 2002).

In 2003 CNP took its most successful franchise, the esteemed Vogue, to a different audience by launching Teen Vogue in January.

The "GLAMMY Awards" are presented for the first time in 2005.

Hollywood paid tribute to Condé Nast with the 2006 movie Devil Wears Prada.

In 2008, Andrea Ketterer becomes editor-in-chief of GLAMOUR, moving from the post of head copywriter and deputy editor-in-chief.

Since 2009, German VOGUE organizes the high-end shopping experience in Berlin and Düsseldorf each year in September.

Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE) is our award-winning production and distribution studio that launched in 2011.

In 2012, he adds the title of vice president at Condé Nast International.

And since 2013, he has also been in charge of mergers and acquisitions as director of acquisitions and investments.

In May 2018, Condé Nast moved its offices to the “OSKAR“, a Richard-Meier-building located close to Odeonsplatz.

GQ's September 2021 issue marks a new beginning for the global GQ brand