NEW YORK -- The legendary Vanity Fair, regarded as one of the most literate and chic fashion magazines in history, will be revived in January, 1983, it was announced Tuesday.
Edited by Frank Crowninshield, Vanity Fair appeared between 1914 and 1936 when the depression forced publisher Conde Nast to combine it with its other high fashion magazine, Vogue.
The magazine is still talked about and remembered fondly in the publishing world for its witty articles and excellent cartoons, drawings and photographic work.
The announcement by S.I. Newhouse Jr., chairman of Conde Nast Publications Inc., said Richard Locke, deputy editor of the New York Times Book Review, will be editor-in-chief of the resumed Vanity Fair, which he said will publish the work of the best and wittiest writers obtainable.
The magazine will be a monthly with a $2.50 cover charge and the initial circulation target is 250,000.
Locke, who went to The Times from Simon & Schuster 12 years ago, is a native of New York, who was educated at Columbia, Harvard and Cambridge University in England.
Conde Nast publishes, in addition to Vogue, House & Garden, Glamour, Bride's Self and Gentlemen's Quarterly magazines.
