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Call to Arms: Hey Editors, Who're the Mayors of Your Magazines?

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Hey, Anna Wintour, you may be the living-legend editor-in-chief of Vogue and the most powerful person in the multi-billion dollar fashion industry, but Kaitlin Yapchaian is owning you on Foursquare.

Out of sheer curiosity (and snow-day hotel-bound-ness), we scoured Foursquare to find out who's the mayor of what in the fashion-related media-editorial world. Not surprisingly—the fashion industry isn't especially well-known for being an early-adopter of new technology or social media (note Karl Lagerfeld's fax-persistence)—lots of mayors work in the design and interactive departments at magazines. There are still some titles up for grabs, including Harper's Bazaar, Nylon, and the entire Hachette Filipacchi empire. And Marie Claire, Lucky, and Glamour aren't even listed venues yet!

· Conde Nast Building: Shaun Gough, art director
· Cosmopolitan: Still available!
· Elle Magazine: Florent Peyre, digital business development
· GQ: Colin Stark, sr. special projects manager
· Hachette Filipacchi: Still available!
· Harper's Bazaar: Still available!
· Hearst Tower: Ben Running, senior designer
· Interview: Still available!
· New York Post: Robert George, editorial writer
· New York Times: Diego Sorbara, copy editor
· Nylon: Still available!
· Visionaire: Still available!
· Vogue: Kaitlin Yapchaian
· W: Helen G.
· Wall Street Journal: Zach Seward, outreach editor
· WWD: Still available!

· Foursquare [Official Site]