A Grand new job for fashion queen Katie

WHAT Katie did next... Ever since Edward Enninful announced that he was returning to London to take the role of editor-in-chief at Vogue, the fashion crowd have wondered who is up to the task of replacing him at his previous position. He was fashion and style director at the ultra-cool W magazine, also part of the Condé Nast empire. Turns out it’s another Brit, with Love magazine editor Katie Grand, pictured, snatching the style crown.

This morning the Business of Fashion reported that Grand, superstylist and a onetime front-runner for the Vogue job, will join the publication as contributing fashion creative director. The position is newly created, and designed to absorb Enninful’s responsibilities with the help of an extra hire, Sara Moonves of

US Vogue.

HOW times have changed at Condé Nast. Nicholas Coleridge, president of Condé Nast International, interviewed in Country & Town House, recalls his early days. “There were 14 editorial staff at Tatler, with Tina Brown at number one,

Grand is an impressive new recruit who can certainly match Enninful for connections. She is close friends with Kate Moss and Madonna, was an early champion of Cara Delevingne and Kendall Jenner, and has designers like Stella McCartney and Giles Deacon on speed dial. She will keep her job at the helm of Love, which she founded in 2009.

The decision to bring talent from within the family could be considered the latest move in streamlining the company finances: earlier this year the publisher hinted that several of its US publications could go online only.

“I’ve bought W since I first started buying magazines,” says Grand. “It’s a great American magazine with so much fantastic history.” Must be something about a safe pair of British hands.

me at number 14. Tina was very demanding. Anyone who disappointed could be fired instantaneously. These were the days before HR so I was suddenly her number two, as everyone in between me and her had been fired.”