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Anna Wintour isn't the only person who got a new job this week. Wintour has hired New York Magazine deputy editor Jon Gluck to be the new managing editor at Vogue.

Gluck (above at left), who had been at New York for a decade, will replace Vogue's longtime managing editor Laurie Jones starting April 8. Jones left the magazine at the end of February after 20 years there. Coincidentally, Jones also came to Vogue from New York, where she'd spent the previous 20 years of her career. (While at New York, Jones hired Wintour as the magazine's fashion editor in 1981.)

Elsewhere in the magazine industry, Joanna Coles, who'd been hard at work restructuring her staff at Cosmpolitan, has hired Shopbop head stylist Aya Yanai as the magazine's fashion director. Michelle McCool, who had been Cosmo's fashion director for 10 years, left the magazine just last month. Yanai has worked in fashion glossies in the past: before Shopbop, she was the senior fashion editor at Teen Vogue and fashion director at Nylon.

Photo: Jon Gluck in 2010.

• Revealed: exactly one sketch from the Ralph Lauren Fall 2013 collection. [Facebook]
  

• Alber Elbaz will design a custom gown for Minnie Mouse to wear to Disneyland Paris's 20th Anniversary celebrations. [Vogue UK]
  

• Erin Fetherston decided not to present this season in order to prepare for her upcoming wedding to Cobra Starship singer Gabe Saporta. [New York Post]
  

• Nicholas Kirkwood will collaborate with Selfridges on a four-style capsule collection of shoes inspired by the film Oz The Great and Powerful. [Vogue UK]
  

• Prabal Gurung's collaboration with Target has been named a smash success; it almost entirely sold out in just one day. [Business Insider]
  

• Michelle McCool has left Cosmopolitan after 10 years as fashion director at the magazine. [WWD]
  

Joanna Coles told us she was "not going to muddle" with Cosmopolitan when she took over as editor in chief in September, but she clearly wasn't referring to staff changes.

Coles has reportedly sacked nine members of the magazine's team, including seven on the editorial side and two from the photo department. And while she's hired British GQ's Paul Solomons as creative director and Marie Claire's Joyce Chang as executive editor, a litany of other positions have yet to be filled.

The departures leave Jessica Knoll as the magazine's only current senior editor. When the two first met at a staff meeting in September, Coles joked, "Kate [White] told me you're a rock star. But Kate's gone, so it doesn't matter now."

Over the last several months, the desks at New York's glossy fashion titles have operated more like a game of musical chairs than anything else. The latest departure in a round of shuffling that started in August sees Elle's style director Kate Lanphear leaving her position. It's unclear where she's headed next.

The revolving doors started spinning when Sally Singer was ousted as editor in chief of T Magazine at the end of August. She's now back at Vogue as the digital creative director and was replaced by former WSJ. Magazine editor Deborah Needleman in late September. Needleman took WSJ.'s creative director Patrick Li and fashion features director Whitney Vargas with her when she made the jump.

This week it was announced that stylist Joe McKenna would join T Magazine as fashion director at large. W's Maura Egan has joined T as features editor. Meanwhile, Alix Browne, T's deputy design editor, will head to W Magazine as features director.

Back at The Wall Street Journal, Needleman's deputy editor Ruth Altchek was named editorial director of the paper's weekend Off Duty section and WSJ. in mid-October. Harper's Bazaar executive editor Kristina O'Neill was brought in as editor of the magazine. Two senior members of Bazaar's accessories team, Kate Davidson Hudson and Stefania Allen, left shortly after O'Neill, but not to join her at WSJ. Bazaar's features director Anamaria Wilson also left in October for a position as vice president of global corporate communications at Michael Kors.

Bazaar held onto and promoted three key staffers: longtime senior fashion market editor Joanna Hillman was promoted to style director, Nicole Fritton was named fashion market and accessories director, and Elisa Lipsky-Karasz became the magazine's features editor.

Brides executive editor Anne Fulenwider replaced Coles as editor in chief of Marie Claire. Her first big staff changes have been to promote Nina Garcia from fashion director to creative director and to hire Alex Gonzalez as artistic director. Fulenwider was herself replaced by Keija Minor, becoming the first black editor in chief of a Condé Nast title.

Speaking of Condé Nast employees, Eva Chen left her position as beauty and health director at Teen Vogue and was replaced by Glamour's senior beauty editor Elaine Welteroth.

Above: Joanna Coles. Below: Kate Lanphear.

Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

• Laetitia Casta is the star of H&M's Holiday 2012 lingerie campaign. [NitroLicious]
  

• Joanna Coles has made her first big hire since becoming the editor in chief of Cosmopolitan. Paul Solomons will join her as the magazine's new creative director after serving in the same role for British GQ. [WWD]
  

• A source says Alexa Chung and recording artist Pharrell Williams "looked quite cozy together" at the launch party for Williams's new book. Do we smell a new fashion/music power couple in the making? [Page Six]
  

• Natalie Joos is working with New York's Housing Works to help victims of Hurricane Sandy. Joos says the most-needed items right now are "toilet paper, paper towels, detergent, cleaning products, batteries and flashlights." [Fashionista]
  

• Why hasn't Zara expanded in the United States the way H&M and Uniqlo have? "[Americans] don't fit in the clothes," said an expert on Zara's business. "So why do it? Having to make larger sizes makes production so much more complex." [The New York Times]
  

• Maryna Linchuk takes on the role of a modern Lady Godiva in a new video for Interview Russia. [YouTube]

Joanna Coles says she doesn't want to rock the boat at Cosmopolitan now that she's been appointed the magazine's editor in chief.

"I'm looking forward to meeting the staff properly and getting in there and getting my head under the hood," Coles told us Wednesday after moderating a panel at the Democratic National Convention. "It's very successful. I'm not going to muddle."

Coles added that under her watch, the magazine will still be dedicated to "strong, independent women who like to have fun. I mean, Helen Gurley Brown's idea was, 'Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere,'" she said. "I'd rather be a bad girl."

While Coles — previously editor of Marie Claire for over six years — may not have specific plans for the magazine itself, she told WWD on Tuesday that she has "ideas for partnerships and leveraging some of the brand and expanding various bits of it. Opening it up more editorially."

Coles will officially take over for outgoing editor Kate White on Sept. 10. She will be replaced at Marie Claire by Annie Fulenwider, the former editor in chief of Brides.

— Additional reporting by Annie Scudder.

Photo via Marie Claire.

Stefano Pilati isn't the only big name in fashion with a new job. Joanna Coles, editor of Marie Claire, will take over for Cosmopolitan editor Kate White on Sept. 10 — right in the middle of New York Fashion Week.

"Cosmopolitan is an iconic brand that resonates with women worldwide," Coles said in a statement. "To be able to take over the flagship edition is both a huge challenge and an incredible opportunity. I relish the chance to put my stamp on Cosmo and make it the young woman's ultimate playbook for confidence, choices and navigating change."

Coles, who has filed stories everywhere from the BBC to New York Magazine, introduced Marie Claire to the world of reality television. In 2008 she produced Running in Heels, a competition show set in the magazine's offices. She also got the brand's name on Project Runway when she hired Nina Garcia as Marie Claire's fashion director the same year.

White had been editor of Cosmopolitan for 14 years. She left to pursue her own writing and speaking engagements.

Update: Coles's office at Marie Claire will now be occupied by Anne Fulenwider, who served as the magazine's executive editor for two years until she became editor in chief of Brides in late 2011. "I have such a strong attachment to the brand and what it delivers to the savvy, stylish women who read it," Fulenwider said about her homecoming. "I look forward to contributing to its continued success on every front — from print to digital to television."

Photo via Joanna Coles.

Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor in chief of Cosmopolitan and groundbreaking author of Sex and the Single Girl, died in New York on Monday. She was 90 years old.

"Helen Gurley Brown was an icon. Her formula for honest and straightforward advice about relationships, career, and beauty revolutionized the magazine industry," said Hearst CEO Frank A. Bennack Jr. in a statement. "She lived every day of her life to the fullest and will always be remembered as the quintessential 'Cosmo girl.' She will be greatly missed."

Brown edited Cosmopolitan for 32 years and wrote books on everything from sex, love, and relationships to money and success. She was also widely admired for her sharp wit. In 2007, when Vanity Fair asked which historical figure she identified with most, Brown replied, "Cleopatra. She was a good boss and had a good love life."

The same, undoubtedly, can be said of Brown. See a sampling of her seemingly endless supply of quotes and witticisms, below.

"Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep."

"You cannot sit around like a cupcake asking other people to come and eat you up and discover your great sweetness and charm. You've got to make yourself more cupcakable all the time so you're a better cupcake to be gobbled up."

"Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere."

"One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with."

"Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody."

"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense."

"You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power."

"I address everybody as 'pussycat,' but nobody minds, and it's a nice term of endearment."

"There has been lots of copying — look at Glamour. I used to have all the sex to myself."

"The message was: So you're single. You can still have sex. You can have a great life. And if you marry, don't just sponge off a man or be the gold-medal-winning mother. Don't use men to get what you want in life — get it for yourself."