The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth

Opulent days are over at Vogue, Vanity Fair and other once-powerful glossies. Anna Wintour is giving up (some) control. Now that everyone’s a gatekeeper, why do we keep recreating their status-obsessed world?

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Who Wants to Run Vanity Fair? Everyone? Anyone?

Radhika Jones is stepping down as editor in chief, and the search for her replacement has begun. But as the magazine industry has contracted, many of the more decadent parts of the job are long gone.

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Graydon Carter Looks Back on a Glossy Career of Parties and Feuds

An editor from the heyday of glossy magazines dishes about Anna Wintour and recounts his long-running feud with Donald Trump.

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