Cameron Williamson named EIC of Flare

Williamson

Cameron Williamson has been named the new editor-in-chief of Rogers's Flare magazine. He is moving over from being a freelance project editor for the Globe's Style Advisor and is returning to Rogers where he had previously been editor-in-chief of Glow magazine and art director of Chatelaine. 

Previous to that he was creative director of Toro and fashion editor at National Post and Saturday Night magazine. 

Williamson replaces Miranda Purves, who is moving back to the U.S. after 18 months in the editor's chair.                    

Flare fashionista Lisa Tant's busy, busy life

Lisa Tant, the editor-in-chief of Flare, the fashion magazine from Rogers, was home for dinner only 5 times last month. This, among other things, we learn from her blog posting about her  "typical day", which isn't. She compares herself to her father, who worked to the clock and hated his job. 

I’m out a minimum of three nights a week attending everything from new product launches to fashion shows to black tie dinners. In October (one of my busiest months) I was home for dinner a grand total of five nights – including weekends. That’s a great schedule for a Type A personality like me, but not so good if you love to spend time with family and friends. The idea of going to a movie mid-week sounds like fun – I can’t remember the last time I did that!

[Pic above shows Tant at the P&G Beauty Awards with Joeffer Caoc (where FLARE’s Elizabeth Cabral won Best Fashion Editor) -- photo by George Pimentel]

Flare relaunches web site

Flare, the Rogers fashion flagship, has announced the relaunch of Flare.com, its website. According to the magazine's press release, among the new features is a monthly celebrity 'Style Setter' spotlight, an interactive astrology section that allows users to find their perfect 'Love Match', a new Flash tool that allows readers to 'Get the Look' from actual Flare covers, two new blogs (The Lazy Fashionista and From the Runway) and interactive, photo style polls.

Flare.com one of the earliest big magazine ventures onto the web,launched in 1996. The site is said to have an average of over 180,000 unique visitors and almost 1 million page views per month.