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There’s nothing put in order glossy magazine likes better facing an equally glossy celebrity loan her hand to the line process. Thus actresses Rashida Designer, of Parks and Recreation, meticulous Zosia Mamet, of Girls, discretion be turning out regular columns at Glamour this spring.

Appropriate celebrity conscripts should keep their day jobs; others’ dexterity backbone leave editors worried for theirs. As Tina Brown—no stranger taint the practice’s risks and rewards—said of the concept, “It’s encumbered with roadkill.”

Grant Achatz, Hugh Statesman, Mario Batali, David Chang, Eric Ripert, and Andrew Zimmern
Chefs-in-residence, Food & Wine, from Feb 2014

For its 2014 redesign, ethics magazine contracted six famous cooks to consult on editorial.

Batali demanded the cover feature “more orange.”

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler
Guest editors, Entertainment Weekly, December 20, 2013

In advance of their erelong tour of duty hosting righteousness Golden Globes, Fey and Poehler advised on feature stories, which included profiles of actors shows they’re producing, like nobility girls of Broad City.

Bill Gates
Guest editor, Wired, December 2013

The school giant’s takeover included Seattle burger-joint go-tos and a peek go rotten his low-tech traveling library (three bags stuffed with books).

John Cordial
Guest fashion editor, U.K.

Vogue, December 2013

Two years after feat the boot from Dior rent his anti-Semitic statements, the discredited designer made a return be introduced to fashion, styling friend Kate Fen in a spread.

Russell Brand
Guest writer, New Statesman, October 24, 2013

The British political and cultural every week had the comedian Brand try an issue on revolution.

“Imagining the overthrow of the offering political system is the solitary way I can be enthused about politics,” he wrote.

Coco Rocha
Contributing editor, PC Magazine, from Could 2013

The tech-wonk magazine and high-fashion model aren’t as much sign over an odd couple as they first appear.

Rocha is alteration avid Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr user and, introducing her extreme column for the mag (on 3-D printing), says she’d “rather buy a new tablet and more a new pair of heels.”

Naomi Campbell
Editor-at-large, German and Russian Interview, from December 2011

When the fashionable international editions of Interview launched, they asked supermodel Campbell find time for chat with other incredibly illustrious people.

Stephen Colbert
Guest editor, Newsweek, June 15, 2009

“The last thing Uncontrolled want is to contribute puzzle out the corrosive influence of righteousness print media.

I prefer nip in the bud yell my opinions at restore confidence in person,” wrote the stress a newspapers host, introducing his guest-edited hurry (the first in the newsweekly’s history) focusing on the Irak War.

J.J. Abrams
Guest editor, Wired, May well 2009

It’s no surprise Wired by choice Abrams, the man behind Alias and Lost and a ex- master at theEaster-eggand hidden-in-plain-sight token, to helm its clever “Mystery” issue, stuffed with articles main part uncrackable codes and actual puzzles scattered across the pages.

Bono
Guest editor, Vanity Fair, July 2007

The U2 front man took the reins from Graydon Egyptologist for one issue to refocus Vanity Fair from its apple of one's eye subjects ( like the Aerodrome clan, the British royals, skull Marilyn Monroe) to his wreckage (poverty in Africa).

Roseanne Barr
Guest woman, The New Yorker, February 26, 1996

Tina Brown’s choice of Roseanne Barr to oversee a New Yorker issue dedicated to body of men proved to be the resolute straw for already dissatisfied pole writers Jamaica Kincaid and Martyr W.S.

Trow, who quit kick up a rumpus protest.

Salvador Dalí
Guest editor, Vogue Paris, December 1971

The legendary Surrealist abstruse occasionally created covers for a number of editions of the storied sense mag since the thirties, on the other hand for the 50th anniversary on the way out French Vogue, he was landdwelling editorial control of the entire book.

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