German Vanity Fair discontinued – not enough ads sold

German Vanity Fair magazine that just started 2 years ago will be discontinued, as publisher Conde Nast says today. It’s german competitor Park Avenue was closed 2 months ago, as well as a bunch of other magazines, mostly because companies don’t advertise anymore due to the financial crisis. I wasn’t a big fan of these two magazines, but at least they tried something that is still rare in Germany: to put some money and efforts in more interesting editorial / portrait photography, even if one could say that their photography style was quite “superficial” sometimes.