Fairchild Media is a publisher of digital media, journalism, photography and design, events and summits, video and studios, and fashion. Fairchild Media brands include ''

Women’s Wear Daily ''Women's Wear Daily'' (also known as ''WWD'') is a fashion-industry trade journal often referred to as the "Bible of fashion". Horyn, Cathy"Breaking Fashion News With a Provocative Edge" ''The New York Times''. (August 20, 1999). It provides inf ...

'', ''

Footwear News ''Footwear News'' (sometimes referred to as ''FN'') is a weekly print publication on the topic of women's, men's, and children's footwear. Founded in 1945, its coverage is for the fashion design and fashion retail industries. It was originally p ...

'' (FN), ''Beauty Inc'', ''M'' and ''Fairchild Summits.'' Fairchild Media is a division of Penske Media Corporation (PMC), and is the leading source of fashion news and analysis for industry leaders and the global fashion community.

History

Fairchild Publications was founded in 1892 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''. John Fairchild, grandson of Edmund Fairchild assumed management of Women’s Wear Daily in 1955 and transformed it from a trade journal to a leading fashion and cultural newspaper. In 1968, the company—then named Fairchild Publications—was purchased by

Capital Cities Communications Capital Cities/ABC Inc. was an American media company. It was founded in 1985 when Capital Cities Communications purchased the much larger American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. It was eventually acquired by The Walt Disney Company and re-branded i ...

. In 1996,

The Walt Disney Company The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16 ...

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 Advance Publications, Inc. is a privately held American media company owned by the families of Donald Newhouse and Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., the sons of company founder Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. It owns publishing-related companies inc ...

, the parent company of

Condé Nast Condé Nast () is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Nast (businessman), Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and owned by Advance Publications. Its headquarters are located at One World Trade Center in the FiDi, Financial Dis ...

Publications, for $650 million. In 2005, Advance Publications folded Fairchild into Condé Nast Publications and rebranded the division as the Fairchild Fashion Group. In 2008, it folded ''DNR''. In 2010, Fairchild launched ''Menswear'' and took over the consumer-centric

Style.com Style.com was best known as a website owned by international media company Condé Nast. Under Condé Nast, starting in 2000, Style.com was the online site for fashion magazines '' Vogue'' and ''W''. It featured online versions of some of the maga ...

, 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. In 2012, FFM sold its Fairchild Books division to Bloomsbury Publishing for $6.5 million. The same year, it acquired Fashion Networks International, a blog network founded by swedish entrepreneur Christian Remröd, with contributors that included Anna Dello Russo, Bryanboy, Rumi Neely, and Derek Blasberg. In August 2014, Advance Publications announced that it would sell FFM, save for

and ''NowManifest'', to Penske Media Corp. for $100 million.

Publications

Over the years, the company's portfolio has included the following publications: * ''American Metal Market'' * ''Beauty Inc.'' * '' Details'' * ''Electronic News'' * ''

'' * ''Golf Pro Merchandising'' * ''Home Furnishings Daily'' * '' Jane'' * '' M'' (1983-1992; 2012–present) * ''Men'sWeek'' * ''Metalworking News'' *

* ''Style.com/Print'' * ''Supermarket News'' * ''SportStyle'' * ''Children's Business''

References

External links

* {{Authority control Mass media companies of the United States Fashion industry Penske Media Corporation American companies established in 1892 Publishing companies established in 1892