Fairchild Fashion Media

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Fairchild Media
Private
Industry Media & Events
Founded 1892
Founder Edmund Fairchild
Headquarters New York City
Products Websites, Magazines
Parent Independent
(1892-1968)
Capital Cities Communications
(1968-1996)
The Walt Disney Company
(1996–1999)
Advance Publications
(1999-2014)
Penske Media Corporation
(2014-present)
Website www.pmc.com

Fairchild Media is a publisher of fashion trade magazines, websites, and conferences for the fashion, retail and beauty industries. Fairchild Media brands include Women’s Wear Daily, Footwear News (FN), Beauty Inc, M and Fairchild Summits.

History

Fairchild Publications was founded in 1892[1] when Edmund Fairchild, a peddler, took over the Daily Trade Record (later the Daily News Record and DNR), a failing newspaper that covered the men's clothing business. In June 1910, an insert called "Women's Wear" first appeared in the Record; a month later, Fairchild published it as a standalone publication, known today as Women's Wear Daily.[2]

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Women's Wear insert, June 1910

In 1968, the company—then named Fairchild Publications—was purchased by Capital Cities Communications.[3] In 1996, The Walt Disney Company acquired Capital Cities/ABC. In 1997, Disney announced its intention to sell Fairchild, but it wasn't until 1999 that it sold Fairchild to Advance Publications, the parent company of Condé Nast Publications, for $650 million.[4]

In 2005, Advance Publications folded Fairchild into Condé Nast Publications and rebranded the division as the Fairchild Fashion Group.[5] In 2008, it folded DNR.[6]

In 2010, Fairchild launched Menswear and took over the consumer-centric Style.com, previously part of Condé Nast Publications. In 2011, Fairchild Fashion Group was renamed Fairchild Fashion Media; in October of that year, FFM launched Style.com/Print, a print magazine extension of the brand.[7] In 2012, FFM sold its Fairchild Books division to Bloomsbury Publishing for $6.5 million.[8] The same year, it acquired Fashion Networks International, a blog network with contributors that included Anna Dello Russo, Bryanboy, Rumi Neely, and Derek Blasberg.[9]

In August 2014, Advance Publications announced that it would sell FFM, save for Style.com and NowManifest, to Penske Media Corp. for $100 million.[10]

Publications

Over the years, the company's portfolio has included the following publications:

  • Beauty Inc.
  • Details
  • Electronic News
  • Footwear News
  • Golf Pro Merchandising
  • Home Furnishings Daily
  • Jane
  • M (1983-1992; 2012-present)
  • Men'sWeek
  • Metalworking News
  • Style.com
  • Style.com/Print
  • Supermarket News
  • W

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