Editor Shakeup

All the bits fit to print here, in our daily news roundup.

• The invitation for Chanel's Spring 2013 Haute Couture show features a leaf sporting the brand's signature interlocking C's. [Fashionologie Inbox]
  

• Sarah Burton has announced that she is expecting twins. Because she will soon be on maternity leave, Alexander McQueen will do a presentation in lieu of its Fall 2013 runway show. [InStyle]
  

• Target's next big partnership is with a stylist, not a designer. Kate Young's capsule of semiformal and special-occasion dresses hits stores this April. [FabSugar]
  

• Amanda Hearst is leaving her post as the sustainable fashion editor of Marie Claire to be the special projects editor of Town & Country. [Twitter user AmandaHearst]
  

• Watch out, Bernard Arnault: Karlie Kloss may be the next business tycoon. "[Going to] Harvard at some point is in the plan, but all in good time," she says. "Tyra [Banks] did it. She went to Harvard Business School, and I can do it too." [Vogue UK]
  

• Jourdan Dunn has moved from London to New York City. [My Daily]
  

• The English National Ballet has tapped Vivienne Westwood to produce the Ballet's New Year campaign. [Telegraph]
  

• The first shot from David Beckham's latest H&M Bodywear advertising campaign has arrived. [Racked]
  

All the bits fit to print here, in our daily news roundup.

Kate Lanphear has found a new job after leaving her position as Elle's style director in November.

Journalist Jim Shi tweeted on Monday that "Lanphear has joined T: The New York Times Style Magazine as style director. She'll be at the upcoming women's shows with Team T." The Times' official communications account later confirmed the news by tweeting, "Welcome to Kate Lanphear, new Style Director of @TMagazine."

Lanphear has been the subject of a number of job-related rumors over the past several months. In October, she was mentioned as a possible replacement for Deborah Needleman, who left WSJ. Magazine to take over T in September. In November, some believed she was headed to a start-up magazine called Editorialist.

She's the newest big-name addition to the team since stylist Joe McKenna was named the magazine's fashion director at large in November.

The great editor shakeup of 2012 is continuing right on into the New Year with a recent round of staff changes at Glamour. The magazine has replaced its longtime beauty director Felicia Milewicz, who left in November, with Marie Claire's former beauty and health director Ying Chu.

Chu will serve as the magazine's executive beauty director, overseeing beauty content both in print and online. She'll work closely with editor in chief Cindi Leive. Chu will be replaced by Erin Flaherty, Marie Claire's current executive beauty editor.

"There is not a more exciting place to be, or a more inspirational editor to work with," said Chu, who starts her new job at the end of the month. "And I can't wait to engage with the Glamour audience!"

The new hire coincides with a round of promotions: Glamour's executive fashion director Anne Christensen is now creative director, fashion; and design director Geraldine Hessler's new title is creative director, design. Suzanne Donaldson, previously the magazine's photo director, is now its executive photo director.

The Glamour team is just one of many glossy magazine staffs that have been rocked by editors coming and going in the last several months. Last October, Glamour's senior beauty editor Elaine Welteroth left the magazine to replace Teen Vogue's outgoing beauty and health director Eva Chen.

Joanna Coles told us she was "not going to muddle" with Cosmopolitan when she took over as editor in chief in September, but she clearly wasn't referring to staff changes.

Coles has reportedly sacked nine members of the magazine's team, including seven on the editorial side and two from the photo department. And while she's hired British GQ's Paul Solomons as creative director and Marie Claire's Joyce Chang as executive editor, a litany of other positions have yet to be filled.

The departures leave Jessica Knoll as the magazine's only current senior editor. When the two first met at a staff meeting in September, Coles joked, "Kate [White] told me you're a rock star. But Kate's gone, so it doesn't matter now."

Over the last several months, the desks at New York's glossy fashion titles have operated more like a game of musical chairs than anything else. The latest departure in a round of shuffling that started in August sees Elle's style director Kate Lanphear leaving her position. It's unclear where she's headed next.

The revolving doors started spinning when Sally Singer was ousted as editor in chief of T Magazine at the end of August. She's now back at Vogue as the digital creative director and was replaced by former WSJ. Magazine editor Deborah Needleman in late September. Needleman took WSJ.'s creative director Patrick Li and fashion features director Whitney Vargas with her when she made the jump.

This week it was announced that stylist Joe McKenna would join T Magazine as fashion director at large. W's Maura Egan has joined T as features editor. Meanwhile, Alix Browne, T's deputy design editor, will head to W Magazine as features director.

Back at The Wall Street Journal, Needleman's deputy editor Ruth Altchek was named editorial director of the paper's weekend Off Duty section and WSJ. in mid-October. Harper's Bazaar executive editor Kristina O'Neill was brought in as editor of the magazine. Two senior members of Bazaar's accessories team, Kate Davidson Hudson and Stefania Allen, left shortly after O'Neill, but not to join her at WSJ. Bazaar's features director Anamaria Wilson also left in October for a position as vice president of global corporate communications at Michael Kors.

Bazaar held onto and promoted three key staffers: longtime senior fashion market editor Joanna Hillman was promoted to style director, Nicole Fritton was named fashion market and accessories director, and Elisa Lipsky-Karasz became the magazine's features editor.

Brides executive editor Anne Fulenwider replaced Coles as editor in chief of Marie Claire. Her first big staff changes have been to promote Nina Garcia from fashion director to creative director and to hire Alex Gonzalez as artistic director. Fulenwider was herself replaced by Keija Minor, becoming the first black editor in chief of a Condé Nast title.

Speaking of Condé Nast employees, Eva Chen left her position as beauty and health director at Teen Vogue and was replaced by Glamour's senior beauty editor Elaine Welteroth.

Above: Joanna Coles. Below: Kate Lanphear.

Street style favorite Joanna Hillman has been named style director of Harper's Bazaar. She had been the magazine's senior fashion market editor for over three years.

The new job is one of a trio of promotions that follow the departure of Bazaar's features director Anamaria Wilson, who's now vice president of global corporate communications at Michael Kors, and its executive editor Kristina O'Neill, who left to become editor of WSJ. Magazine. Nicole Fritton has been named fashion market and accessories director, and Elisa Lipsky-Karasz is the magazine's new features editor.

Hillman got her first job in the industry as an assistant to stylist Lori Goldstein, who she worked with for two years. She then moved to Teen Vogue for four years, where she ultimately served as senior fashion market editor. Hillman joined the Bazaar team in September 2009.

All three promotions coincide with a new arrival at Bazaar: Earlier this month, the magazine announced that Carine Roitfeld would become its global fashion director.

Sally Singer, who left her job as editor of T Magazine in September, has been named the digital creative director of Vogue. She'll head back to 4 Times Square to take the newly created position on Oct. 29. Singer, who had been the features director and fashion news editor at Vogue before she took over T Magazine in 2010, will report to Anna Wintour and will work closely with Vogue.com Editor Caroline Palmer.

After weeks of speculation, the wait is over: Deborah Needleman will leave The Wall Street Journal's WSJ. Magazine to edit T, The New York Times Style Magazine effective immediately.

"Deborah is a creative and innovative editor with an impeccable sense of style and design," said The New York Times' executive editor, Jill Abramson, in a statement. "As we look to expand and extend T and continue to evolve it for our loyal and sophisticated New York Times audience, we will rely on Deborah's broad range of experience and creative energy. She is coming on board to strengthen the franchise and reimagine its future on all platforms."

Needleman replaces Sally Singer, whose departure from the magazine was announced just before New York Fashion Week.

The New York Times has offered Deborah Needleman the editor's chair at T Magazine twice, according to reports, but no one knows for sure whether she'll accept.

Needleman, currently editor of WSJ. Magazine, told WWD Wednesday that any suggestion she has taken the job "is just not true!" Needleman became an early frontrunner on the list of candidates to replace Sally Singer when her departure from T was announced in late August, but at the time Needleman seemed content to stay at WSJ. "I'm focusing on our Fall-Winter issues right now," she said.

That focus — and her success at WSJ. — are part of what makes Needleman so perfect for the job. The key question now is, will the third time really be the charm?

Joanna Coles says she doesn't want to rock the boat at Cosmopolitan now that she's been appointed the magazine's editor in chief.

"I'm looking forward to meeting the staff properly and getting in there and getting my head under the hood," Coles told us Wednesday after moderating a panel at the Democratic National Convention. "It's very successful. I'm not going to muddle."

Coles added that under her watch, the magazine will still be dedicated to "strong, independent women who like to have fun. I mean, Helen Gurley Brown's idea was, 'Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere,'" she said. "I'd rather be a bad girl."

While Coles — previously editor of Marie Claire for over six years — may not have specific plans for the magazine itself, she told WWD on Tuesday that she has "ideas for partnerships and leveraging some of the brand and expanding various bits of it. Opening it up more editorially."

Coles will officially take over for outgoing editor Kate White on Sept. 10. She will be replaced at Marie Claire by Annie Fulenwider, the former editor in chief of Brides.

— Additional reporting by Annie Scudder.

Photo via Marie Claire.