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Buried in a story about a Condé Nast cocktail party Tuesday night is the news that Anna Wintour has hired Hildy Kuryk, former finance director of the Democratic National Committee, as the new communications director at Vogue.

Kuryk, according to WWD, will replace Megan Salt, who is leaving the magazine for Amazon Fashion. But even though Salt hasn't left yet, Kuryk gave reporters the "no comment" line in regards to Vogue's upcoming move from 4 Times Square to One World Financial Center in 2015.

Before coming to Vogue, Kuryk cut her teeth in political fundraising, first as a finance consultant for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential run, and later as the finance director at the Democratic National Committee. It's doubtless that Kuryk interacted with Wintour, one of the Obama campaign's top fundraisers, in both of these roles. It's also doubtless that she was good at her job: Politico named Kuryk one of its 50 people to watch in 2011.

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Whatever doubts there may have been about Anna Wintour leaving Vogue were assuaged Tuesday night when Condé Nast revealed that it had named Wintour the company's artistic director.

What the New Job Means:
Wintour will still be the editor in chief of Vogue and editorial director of Teen Vogue, but she'll also take on some of the responsibilities of Si Newhouse, Jr., the chairman and CEO of Condé Nast. According to The New York Times, that will include advising editors on the company's other magazines, expanding those brands onto new platforms, finding new talent, and reinforcing aesthetics.

Wait, Where's Si Going?
Newhouse, 85, has reportedly been recusing himself of some of his duties since last year, and recently moved from Condé Nast's 11th floor executive suite to an office on the sixth floor.

How Wintour Sees the Role:
She told the Times it's "almost like being a one-person consulting firm . . . I advise all sorts of people in the outside world, and really, I see this as an extension of what I am doing, but on a broader scale." Later, she added, "It isn't about a machine or an iPhone or an iPad. It's about people."

Condé's Reason For Creating the Role:
In a statement, the company said creation of the new role came at "the ideal time to leverage Anna's extraordinary vision and leadership to amplify and elevate the profile of Condé Nast US both domestically and abroad. Anna is an icon in the worlds of fashion, business and the arts, she has the foresight and wisdom to influence the major trends of our society and is respected globally as an accomplished businesswoman."

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• After previously showing in Milan, Burberry will present its next menswear collection in London. [Telegraph]
  

• Macy's latest brand literally comes straight from a magazine. Teen Vogue collaborated with the retailer on a collection that launches in stores and online today. [WWD]
  

• Meanwhile, Lily Aldridge has teamed up with Velvet by Graham & Spencer on a 13-piece capsule collection, which reflects the model's signature "boho rock-and-roll glamour" style. [Vogue UK]
  

• The Salvatore Ferragamo Museum will explore the mystical role of shoes in mythology through its next exhibition, The Amazing Shoemaker — Fairy Tales and Legends About Shoes and Shoemakers. [WWD]
  

• Condé Nast has premiered video networks for Glamour and GQ to kick-start the development of its newly created entertainment division. [Mashable]
  

• Iris Apfel's second collection of sunglasses for Eyebobs is now available. [SheFinds]
  

• Karlie's Kookies might soon be stocked at a Whole Foods near you. [The New York Post]
  

• Nicholas Kirkwood looks to architecture to inspire his fancy footwear: "The curve, the line, the angles, all of it is close to the structure of a bridge, if not of a building in itself." [AnotherMag]
  

• Kate Moss and Victoria Beckham have been remade as British royals to promote The Sunday Times' Style Magazine's annual best-dressed list. [BuzzFeed]
  

• Condé Nast has confirmed that Kate Phelan, who left her role as Fashion Director of Vogue UK to be the creative director of Topshop, will return to the publication. There is no word yet on what her position will be at the magazine. [Telegraph]
  

• Public relations executive Lynn Tesoro has reached a settlement in her $1 million lawsuit against three French attendees of Zac Posen's Spring 2013 show, one of whom slapped Tesoro when she attempted to reseat them. [WWD]
  
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• Karl Lagerfeld has taken his New York apartment, at 50 Gramercy Park North, off the market for the fourth time since his first attempt at selling it last year. [Curbed]
  

• LVMH boss Bernard Arnault's application for a Belgian passport might be declined because he doesn't meet the nation's citizenship requirements. [Vogue UK]
  

• Jimmy Choo today unveiled plans to launch a second fragrance, called Flash, come Spring. [Fashion Etc]
  

• Condé Nast's newest title, BeautyScoop, is a collaboration with mass retailer Walmart. [WWD]
  

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As Condé Nast chairman Si Newhouse starts spending less and less time at headquarters, his employees — who create those highly anticipated issues of Vogue, W, and Vanity Fair, among other magazines — say the once-special workplace is starting to lose a little bit of its magic glimmer.

For example, the Frank Gehry-designed cafeteria on the fourth floor of 4 Times Square is, according to a story about Newhouse in The New York Observer, starting to look a little worse for the wear. "That was the symbol of the luxury of the place," one employee told the paper, who added that the food served there had also become less appealing. "I think they just stopped caring. I think something happened where they were like, 'I'm not spending any more money.'"

That something may be the downturn in the print advertising money the company used to enjoy, which has forced Condé Nast executives to examine other ways of making ends meet. Lucky Magazine, for example, will launch its own ecommerce site called myLucky on Aug. 17. (Vogue is still partnered with Moda Operandi, while GQ has a deal with Nordstrom.) Late last year, the company set up an entertainment division tasked with developing "television and online programming based on Condé Nast personalities, articles, and general brands."

But those new initiatives haven't started to make up for advertising revenue lost. One employee told the Observer that as a result, people who used to apply to the magazine in droves have started looking elsewhere for jobs.

"You do sense that maybe one of the weird by-products of the 'Death of Print' is that girls in sundresses don't all flock here quite as much," he said. "You sense a little bit the loss of that swagger, the feeling that 'I'm working in some special place.'"

Photo: Si Newhouse with Anna Wintour on Fashion's Night Out in 2011.

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• Jessica Stam's best travel tip is to wear a comfortable dress when you're on an airplane. "Flying in jeans overnight is uncomfortable," Stam says. [Modelinia]
  

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• Charlotte Gainsbourg says the difference between London style and Parisian chic is that Londoners are freer and more eccentric. "Parisians are a little too serious and self conscious," she says. [Elle UK]
  

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Editors and photographers at Condé Nast have reportedly been told they're not allowed to work on Carine Roitfeld's new biannual magazine, CR Fashion Book.

According to a few anonymous sources, Condé Nast International chairman Jonathan Newhouse has reminded Mario Testino, Craig McDean, Mert Alas, Marcus Piggot, and others who have exclusive contracts to shoot for Condé Nast titles that they legally can't work for Roitfeld. One source alleges that Newhouse has even gone so far as to strongly discourage other photographers who don't have the same contracts from working with the former Vogue Paris editor.

"Everyone is buzzing about the Condé roadblocks against Carine," one source said. "People love Carine but are more frightened of the Condé Nast machine."

Roitfeld has already culled two editors from the Condé Nast flock. Former Teen Vogue accessories editor Shiona Turini and former Vogue.it contributing fashion and market editor Michaela Dosamantes are both on the CR Fashion Book payroll.

Neither Condé Nast nor Fashion Media LLC, which operates CR Fashion Book — as well as V Magazine and V Man — has commented on the rumors. But Roitfeld said when she announced her new publication's name in April that she didn't want to challenge Vogue's dominance in any way.

"Vogue is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there," she said. "You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like Vogue; you have to create something new, something different."

>> In effort to reduce its reliance on advertising, Conde Nast is expected to announce the creation of a full-fledged entertainment division today, The New York Times reports. "Developing television and online programming based on Conde Nast personalities, articles, and general brands is the first priority, although movies are also a focus." Dawn Ostroff, who stepped down as president of The CW earlier this year and has helped develop shows like Gossip Girl and America’s Next Top Model, will be running Conde Nast Entertainment. Perhaps this development has something to do with why Andre Leon Talley recently left Top Model. [NY Times]