September 25, 2008 -- ANNA Wintour needs to watch her couture-clad back. "Elle's October issue scored 66 more ad pages than Vogue," a source told Page Six - a figure which doesn't sit well with her boss S.I. Newhouse, who may have already found her successor. At a party for Russian GQ earlier this week in Moscow, one attendee told Page Six, "The event's announcer introduced [Russian Vogue editrix Aliona Doletskaya] as 'The next editor of American Vogue.' " Doletskaya was the recent subject of a New York Times profile that boasted of her "lithe physique" and "foxlike features." Asked about the Doletskaya remark in Moscow, a Vogue spokesperson told Page Six, "These variations are nothing unusual for magazine publishing, and we have the greatest admiration for every editor in chief of all the international Vogues." Elle happily confirmed that the magazine's newsstand and ad pages are up.
It kind of sounds to me like more hype than anything. Or just Anna haters out there. I like Anna and thinks she's done a great deal at Vogue. Yet on the other hand, look what they did with Grace Mirabella???
It still sounds like a rumor to me, but I can understand why Aliona is the candidate for the post, but it would be cool if Roitfeld take Wintour's place. Anna would be hopping mad!
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To be honest, I would love to see a fresh perspective at American Vogue. I'm sure Anna would land on her feet somewhere. But why Aliona, is she doing interesting things at Russian Vogue?
I just saw a video of Alyona on youtube, I was expecting some thick Russian accent but she actually speaks with a deep British one! It was kinda surprising...
This is just a very wild speculation BUT i think Anna does need to rethink her way of editing, Vogue has been an absoloute disaster this year, one bad cover after another.
But i think she is to much of a good buisnesswoman to be just let go like her predeccesors Vreeland and Mirabella.
Grace Mirabella was fired after 37 years at Vogue and 17 as editor to make way for House & Garden editor Anna Wintour, Condé Nast’s rising star. Mirabella learned about her dismissal from a friend, who had heard the news on TV (it was gossip columnist Liz Smith who announced it).
Mirabella’s response: "For a magazine devoted to it, this was not a very stylish way of telling me."
I want to see an American at the helm of US Vogue. I'm tired of Anna promoting her British pets through the magazine.
as am i. kiera, nicole, and sienna are on the cover contantly. i want someone who can take american actresses, models, and culture and mix it together to make US Vogue interesting and truly about fashion again.
however it would be a dream come true if carine was Editor of US Vogue and Emanuelle was promoted to Editor of Vogue Paris.
If Anna did go, (which would be quiet sad) 
I'd like to see what Aliona did to US Vogue
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