The New York Times Magazine Names Stefano Tonchi Style Editor and Amy M. Spindler Critic at Large.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2003 The New York Times Magazine announced today that Stefano Tonchi, fashion creative director for Esquire magazine, has been named style editor, replacing Amy M. Spindler who was named critic at large for culture and style. The appointments will be effective in November. Mr. Tonchi will report to Gerald Marzorati, editor, The New York Times Magazine. Ms. Spindler will report to Adam Moss, assistant managing editor for Features, The New York Times. "I am delighted to announce that Stefano is the new style editor of the Times Magazine," Mr. Marzorati said. "Fittingly, he is a Florentine and a Renaissance man. Stefano has a keen eye for beauty, a journalist's curiosity about the new and the stylish, an anthropological understanding of society and its quest for stuff, and a deep engagement with ideas." "Amy has always had a particular talent for finding depth in what others regard as surface material," said Mr. Moss. "The style pages she and her excellent staff produced for over five years were bursting with life, wit and intelligence. She'll bring some of those same qualities to her examinations, in prose, of things stylish and cultural, and to the ever-broadening place where those two domains intersect." Mr. Tonchi, 44, was fashion creative director for Esquire since 1998. Previously he was creative consultant for J. Crew from 1996 to 1998. From 1994 to 1996 he served as Self magazine's creative director. Before then he served as fashion director for L'Uomo Vogue from 1987 to 1994. From 1984 to 1987 Mr. Tonchi co-founded and served as an editor and art director for Westuff magazine, a magazine that later evolved into Emporio Armani magazine. Since the late 1980's he has also curated a number of exhibitions devoted to style, and edited several books on the intersection of art and fashion. He was the book editor for "Total Living" and "Uniform: Order and Disorder Order and Disorder See also classification. agenda things to be done or a list of those things, as a list of the matters to be discussed at a meeting. anarchy extreme disorder. See also government. ." Mr. Tonchi graduated with a classic studies degree from Liceo Classico Forteguerri in Pistoia, Italy, and studied political science at the University of Florence History The University of Florence evolved from the Studium Generale, which was established by the Florentine Republic in 1321. The Studium was recognized by Pope Clement VI in 1349, and authorised to grant regular degrees. , Italy, from 1979 to 1984. Ms. Spindler, 40, became the style editor at The New York Times Magazine in 1998. Previously she served as the fashion critic for the newspaper, a position created for her in 1994, after joining The Times's style department in 1993 as its fashion news columnist. Prior to joining The Times, she was the associate features editor at W Europe, and a reporter for Women's Wear Daily Women's Wear Daily (WWD) is a fashion-industry trade journal sometimes called "the bible of fashion."[1][2] It is the flagship journal of Fairchild Publications, Inc.[3] WWD's publisher is Ralph Erardy, Sr. in Paris from 1992 to 1993. From 1990 to 1992, she was the European editor of the men's fashion trade publication, The Daily News Record, in Paris after she had been a columnist for the newspaper in New York from 1988 to 1990. Ms. Spindler received a B.A. degree in journalism and English from Indiana University in 1985. She received the Eugenia Sheppard Award for Journalism from the Council of Fashion Designers of America The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a non-profit trade group for American fashion designers founded in 1962.[1] The organization sponsors the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, scholarships, and professional development programs, as well as awards for fashion in February 1997. The New York Times Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : NYT NYT New York Times NYT National Youth Theatre (UK) NYT New York Transit (New York, USA) NYT New York Tribune ), a leading media company with 2002 revenues of $3.1 billion, includes The New York Times, The New York Times, The Morning daily newspaper, long the U.S. newspaper of record. From its establishment in 1851 it has aimed to avoid sensationalism and to appeal to cultured, intellectual readers. International Herald Tribune International Herald Tribune Daily newspaper published in Paris. 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