Media People: Glenda Bailey on Display

She’s definitely going out with a bang. Tonight, Glenda Bailey will cap her reign as editor in chief of Harper’s Bazaar with a gala at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs marking the opening of an exhibition devoted to the magazine’s 150-plus years. While she lamented that some designers and VIPs cannot attend due to travel restrictions related to the coronavirus outbreaks, Bailey adopted her glass-half-full perspective on things, always on the lookout for opportunities when problems arise. “Health is way more important than fashion,” she reasoned. She even saw an opportunity in another health scare to write a new chapter for herself after 32 years being an editor in chief, divulging with some emotion that she had hidden from the world, her family included, two bouts with breast cancer in recent years. In fact, she interrupted one round of radiation treatments to attend the Paris couture, and only informed her nearest and dearest when she was cancer-free. “I wanted to tell the good news and not the bad,” she demurred. Her superiors at Hearst Magazines listened with compassion and generosity when she informed them she wanted to slow down: hence her new role as a global consultant for Bazaar’s 29 global editions, effective March

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