With the retail industry undergoing cataclysmic shifts, it isn’t easy to find the right person to fill the big, shiny shoes of features editor of a relatively new, digital-only title like Vogue Business.
However, after an exhaustive search, Conde Naste International has found just that in Hilary Milnes, a writer and editor with experience in fashion, retail and tech journalism.
Milnes will start the job Aug. 27. Sher will be based in New York.
She was most recently editor of Modern Retail, an online publication launched by Digiday Media in June 2019 to cover the digital evolution and reinvention of the retail industry. Before that, she was retail editor at Digiday.
She is well-versed in Amazon’s marketplace, the direct-to-consumer era and how digital technology is changing the role of the store.
In making the announcement, Katerina Ang, global commissioning editor at CNI, said Milne will work in New York along with herself and Lauren Indvik, chief editor at Vogue Business, in London, striving for stories that provide global coverage of an industry in the throes of change.
