vanity fairBarkley, the Kansas City-based independent ad/PR firm, has picked up the Vanity Fair lingerie account.

MDC Partners’ Crispin Porter + Bogusky had handled advertising, while Omnicom's Ketchum did PR.

Kirby Kriz, ad/PR director at VF, said Barkley’s has strong creative insights and understands the female customer.

Neither Crispin nor Ketchum defended that account, according a report in the Kansas City Business Journal.

Vanity Fair lingerie is part of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.