The GQ magazine will have a new editor

Mikhail Idov leaves Condé Nast Russia and will become the creative director of the Art Picture group of companies. The position of chief editor of GQ magazine will be occupied by a journalist and screenwriter Kim Belov.

This was reported by the GQ website.

Writer and journalist Mikhail Idov headed GQ since January 2012. Having called the GQ “the best magazine brand in the market”, he thanked his colleagues, a publishing house and readers for help and support, and also said that he would remain one of the GQ authors.

In 2003, Kim Belov graduated from the Faculty of Faculty of VGIK. He began his career in the gloss in the FHM magazine as an editor, then as a deputy chief editor, in 2004 he came to GQ , where he worked for three years, at first the editor, and then the deputy chief editor.

Since April 2008, Belov headed the Empire magazine, with the closure of Empire, he worked as the publisher of ICONS magazine in the Forward Media Group . Since 2010 - producer and screenwriter, co -author of the script of the film “Boomer. The film is second. "

The duties of the editor -in -chief of the GQ magazine Kim Belov will begin on May 1.

The GQ male magazine was founded in 1957 as an appendix to Esquire magazine. It is produced by Condé Nast Publishing House in 11 countries. The Russian version of GQ has been published since 2001.