Italy’s Esquire Names New Editor in Chief

MILAN — The Italian version of Esquire has discovered a brand new editor in chief in Giovanni Audiffredi, WWD has discovered.

The seasoned editor and Condé Nast veteran who has most not too long ago devoted his profession to freelancing and consulting is to affix the Hearst-owned males’s publication in January, the media firm mentioned Monday.

He succeeds Massimo Russo, Hearst Italy’s chief content material officer, who had taken the helm of the journal on an interim foundation in 2021 following an inside reorganization on the writer of Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Males’s Well being, amongst different titles. Earlier than Russo took on the interim position, Alan Prada was Esquire’s editor in chief.

“Along with [Massimo] Russo we had been trying for a very long time for knowledgeable with the best know-how and background to additional develop probably the most storied and related Hearst titles on the earth,” mentioned Giacomo Moletto, chief govt officer of Hearst Italy. “Audiffredi is actually a high-profile selection for Esquire, {a magazine} that is ready to describe the evolution of males’s fashion comprehensively,” he added.

Audifreddi presently contributes repeatedly to Italy’s progressive newspaper La Repubblica and particularly its fashion-leaning weekly complement D. He’s additionally editorial and content material director of Milan-based PR agency Attila & Co. Earlier than that, he had spent greater than 14 years of his profession at rival writer Condé Nast the place he contributed to guide AD and Self-importance Truthful earlier than taking up the position of Italy’s GQ editor in chief in 2019.

In his new position at Hearst Italy, Audifreddi may even lead the editorial course for the Males’s Well being and Runner’s World glossies, supporting these titles’ present editor in chief Rosario Palazzolo.

On Monday, Hearst additionally introduced that Nik Piras, presently vogue director at DLui, the lads’s complement to La Repubblica, is becoming a member of Hearst as vogue director throughout Esquire, Males’s Well being and Runner’s World.

Piras and Audiffredi have beforehand labored collectively at GQ, as the previous was the title’s vogue director through the latter’s tenure on the journal. Piras reduce his enamel at girls’s magazines together with Amica and Velvet.

In gentle of those appointments, Hearst mentioned that the Italian version of Esquire can have eight printed points in 2024.