Susanna Lau, the London-based vogue blogger turned editor, has been appointed digital editorial director of System journal. The rent comes as System proprietor Mike Obenson goals to remodel what started as a bi-annual print title with insider cred into a worldwide media model with a extra sturdy providing.
Obenson launched System Magnificence in late 2022 and extra just lately soft-launched System Tales, a video-driven platform that can formally debut later this yr. A couple of months in the past, System employed i-D journal’s head of video content material, Fiona Hartley, to the position of digital director.
Lau, identified on-line as Susie Bubble, was a part of the primary wave of digital creators to shake up vogue media within the mid-2000s. She rose to prominence following the launch of her “Type Bubble” weblog in 2006 and was the editor of Dazed Digital between 2008 and 2010.
“After a decade of floating free, I’m very excited to hitch a publication that has held the style trade as much as its artistic mirror by asking essentially the most potent of inquiries to its finest protagonists,” Lau stated.
Alongside her work for System, Lau will proceed to work with shoppers together with Gucci, Prada and Dior, and contribute to titles equivalent to Good Journal, Pop and The Enterprise of Vogue.
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The sweetness push is a part of a wider technique by CEO and publishing director Mike Obenson to show System from a single print product right into a broader media proposition.
