• Women's Wear Daily, Wednesday, November 9, 2011 4:26 PM

Condé Nast's three most prestigious pubs -- Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker -- are each enjoying strong years financially during a down market.  In "The Three Musketeers of Conde Nast Ride Again," John Koblin not only parses each magazine's figures, but also discusses their legendary editors, who are all "having career years — or at least years that should go down as All-Star seasons on their Hall of Fame plaques."

For instance, Ann Wintour has increased newsstand sales, a trick that should keep her from suffering the fate of her "predecessors — Diana Vreeland and Grace Mirabella — [who] were both unceremoniously sacked by Condé Nast chairman S.I. Newhouse Jr. when the magazine’s sales began to sag, even though both editors had become legends in their own rights."

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