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Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, who is also the artistic director of Condé Nast, returned to Balthazar Thursday, a week after she helped give Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter a farewell bash.
This time, Wintour was toasting Carter's
surprise successor, Radhika Jones - a former deputy managing editor at Time and, more recently, the shortlived editorial director of books at the New York Times.
Jones started her new job atop VF on Monday.
The bash was not as heavily attended as Carter's farewell since this one was only for about two dozen people - primarily other Condé Nast editors, such as the soon-to-exit Glamour editor Cindi Leive and The New Yorker editor David Remnick, who championed Jones for the VF job.
Carter didn't stick around very long at the office to show her the ropes - or even, perhaps, the best place to get lunch. Carter's last day was Dec. 13, only two days after Jones arrived to work at her new gig.
Jones, who was also a managing editor of the Paris Review, is seen as strong on the literary front - but weak on fashion and unknown in Hollywood.
Such a CV is stirring speculation that Wintour will be more heavily involved in VF.
Carter would never defer to Wintour when he was running the magazine. Carter's last regular issue will be February's, which hits in late December. He will also oversee the special pre-Oscar Hollywood issue that is out in late January.
Jones' first issue will be the all-important March issue - which is usually packed with fashion advertising and hits newsstands in early March.
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