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Fashioning treaties, feuds.(Mary Berner takes over Fairchild Publications.)(Brief Article)

Crain's New York Business, November, 1999 by Brady, James

Last week, on the occasion of Conde Nast's takeover of Fairchild Publications, where I labored for so long, I got off a pious little sermon regarding the sanctity of church and state in quality trade journalism. Today, on a lighter note, a few notions Mary Berner might wish to consider in her exciting new role as president/CEO of Fairchild and its great papers, among them Women's Wear Daily and its monthly consumer spinoff, W.

Ready, Mary? John Fairchild was famous for his feuds. You'll have promising little spats of your own with the egos of fashion. In the meanwhile, sign a few peace treaties. Geoffrey Beene hasn't been covered by WWD since he permitted Architectural Digest to do a story about his new country home before W. Pauline Trigere, the...

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