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In 1983 Brown was brought to New York by Newhouse to advise on Vanity Fair, a title that he had resurrected earlier that year.

( Vanity Fair had previously ceased publication in 1936.

) Edited first by Richard Locke and then by Leo Lerman, it was dying with an unviable circulation of 200, 000 and 12 pages of advertising.

She stayed on as a contributing editor for a brief time, and then was named editor-in-chief on January 1, 1984.

She recalls that upon taking over the magazine she found it to be " pretentious, humourless.

It wasn't too clever, it was just dull.