Condé Nast president and CEO Charles H. Townsend just announced that the publishing group will move all editorial and business operations for W magazine, a luxury fashion and lifestyle publication, out of the Fairchild Fashion Group. At the same time W debuts its first-ever shopping issue.
 
Patrick McCarthy will continue as chair of the Fairchild Fashion Group through the end of the year.  A new W Magazine editor-in-chief is to be named.  The senior editorial staff currently shared by W and and Women’s Wear Daily will now exclusively work for WWD.  Edward Nardoza, Editor-in-Chief of WWD, will report to Gina Sanders, President and CEO of the Fairchild Fashion Group.
 
“This formally establishes a structure for W consistent with our other consumer magazine titles, and allows FFG the autonomy to focus on their core business-to-business publications and related businesses,” Townsend said, in the announcement.
 
Fairchild Fashion Group includes WWD, WWD.com, Footwear News, Fairchild Summits, Fairchild Books, and trade shows.  Condé Nast is a division of Advance Publications, and publishes 18 consumer magazines, two trade publications and 27 Web sites in the U.S.