Index

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• Abedin, Huma, 118
• Advance Publications
  • cable TV business, 124, 141, 228, 283
  • CondéNet, 255
  • expansion of, 11, 37
  • magazine business (see Condé Nast Publications)
  • newspaper business, xiii, 10–13, 18–19, 21, 23–25, 29, 36, 52, 124, 227–28, 268
  • The New Yorker, purchase of, 124, 125
  • Random House, purchase of, 42, 110, 129
  • Reddit, one-third stake in, 284
• advertising
  • 1980s and increase in disposable income, 61–62
  • in Allure, 189–90
  • in Architectural Digest, 248–49
  • in Condé Nast Portfolio, 263–64, 267
  • digital sales and, 259
  • e-commerce as threat to, 260–61
  • exclusivity of Condé Nast attracting, 231
  • in GQ, 96–97, 99, 102
  • internet vs. print, 270
  • Liberman’s influence in, 33
  • in The New Yorker, 121–22, 123, 127–28
  • in Russia, 196
  • Si’s changes at Condé Nast Publishing and, 28
  • Trump and, 113
  • in Vanity Fair, 44, 48–49, 51, 65, 68, 71, 113
  • in Vogue, 3–4, 84, 194
• AIDS epidemic, 137
• Air Mail, 288
• Allen, Woody, 240
• Allure
  • advertising in, 189–90
  • Best of Beauty awards, xii, 189–90
  • high/low concept in, 189
  • internet and technological advances, 251, 259
  • Kron as writer for, 204
  • launch of, 189
  • Liberman hiring Sisman at, 204–5
  • shutdown of, 190, 271
  • Wells as editor of, 189–90, 213–14, 223
• Als, Hilton, 159
• Alt, Emmanuelle, 289
• Alter, Jonathan, 126
• Andersen, Kurt, 70, 172
• Angels in America (play), 20
• Aniston, Jennifer, 249
• Anna Wintour Costume Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 73–74
• Ansel, Ruth, 166, 191, 286
• anti-Semitism, 32, 274–75
• Apparel Arts, 95
• The Apprentice (TV show), 111
• Architectural Digest, 243–50
  • AD100 list of designers, 247
  • advertising in, 248–49
  • cultural importance of, xi, 284
  • early years of, 244
  • high/low concept in, 247
  • House & Garden as competition for, 246–48, 249
  • popularity of, 18
  • Rense as editor of, 244–50
  • Russian editions, 197
  • Si’s purchase of, 243, 248
• Arendt, Hannah, 154
• Armani, Giorgio, 88
• Armstrong-Jones, Anthony (Lord Snowdon), 32
• Arnault, Bernard, 191
• Arnold, Tom, 69, 160–61
• The Art of the Deal (Trump), xv, 110–12
• art world
  • art published in Vanity Fair, 5, 43–44
  • Liberman mentoring Si on, 29
  • Liberman’s art, 45, 79
  • Si’s purchase of art, 123
  • Vanity Fair, rebranding of, 43–45, 47
• Astaire, Fred, 5
• Astley, Amy, 205–6
• Astor, Brooke, 12
• Astor, Caroline Schermerhorn, 1, 4, 12
• Astor, Vincent, 12
• Auermann, Nadja, 165
• Auletta, Ken, 127, 155
• Avedon, Richard
  • cover of GQ, 109
  • cover of Vanity Fair, 47
  • exclusive contract with Vogue, 3
  • Kinski photograph with snake, 189
  • in The New Yorker, 165
  • portraits for O. J. Simpson trial, 157
  • on racial prejudice in fashion, 276–77, 325n276
  • Vogue covers, 87–88, 306n87

• Bailey, David, 215
• Baker, Josephine, 5, 44
• Baldwin, Billy, 17
• Balmain, Pierre, 83
• Bandy, Way, 138
• Banks, Tyra, 106
• Barkin, Ellen, 194
• Barnes, Fred, 158
• Barnett, Jennifer, 205
• Barr, Roseanne, 69, 160–62
• Barsotti, Charles, 121
• Barthelme, Frederick, 128
• Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 47
• Basinger, Kim, 59, 89, 217–18
• Beaton, Cecil, 3, 25, 27, 274–75
• Beatty, Warren, 173–74
• A Beautiful Mind (movie), 185
• Becker, Jonathan, 45, 47
• Beckman, Richard “Mad Dog,” 232
• Benchley, Robert, 43
• Bening, Annette, 69
• Benson, Harry, 64–65
• Bercu, Michaela, 86–87
• Bernstein, Carl, 184
• Bernstein, Robert L., 112
• Biden, Jill, 290
• Biden, Joe, 290
• Big Apple Car Service, 218–20
• Bishop, Elizabeth, 48
• Black Lives Matter movement, 279
• Blahnik, Manolo, 115
• Bloomberg, Michael, 249, 287
• Bloomingdale, Betsy, 274
• Boesky, Ivan, 60
• Bon Appétit, xii, 248, 254–55, 274
• Bouché, René, 29, 32
• Bourdain, Anthony, 240
• Bourdain, Gladys, 240
• Bouvier, Jacqueline, 210
• Bradlee, Ben, 56
• Bradshaw, Jon, 76
• breast cancer awareness, 187–88
• Brenner, Marie, 71, 113, 182
• Brides, 278
• British Vogue
  • beginning of, 4, 198
  • Enninful as editor of, 290
  • first Black cover model, 276
  • training staff of Vogue Russia, 196
  • Wintour as editor, 81–82
• Broadway Video, 130
• Brodovitch, Alexey, 275
• Brooks, Mel, 154
• Brown, Dana, 200, 221, 260
• Brown, Helen Gurley, 39
• Brown, Tina
  • advising Wintour at Vogue, 88
  • background, 53–54, 60–61
  • consultancy at Vanity Fair, 56–57
  • cultural importance of Vanity Fair and, 67–69, 135–37
  • as editor of The Daily Beast, 287
  • as editor of The New Yorker, 142–44, 148–49, 151–67, 223, 232–34, 287
  • as editor of Vanity Fair, xiv–xv, 58–72, 135–42, 151, 218, 232–33
  • on English royals, 62
  • at fifth anniversary party for Vanity Fair, 135–36
  • Fresh Hell Substack, 288
  • on Gottlieb, 132
  • hiring process at The New Yorker for, 142–44, 148–49
  • hiring process at Vanity Fair for, 54–59
  • The Hot List of The New Yorker and, 163–65
  • marriage to Harry Evans, 55–56
  • Moore’s cover of Vanity Fair and, 138–40
  • on The New Yorker, 141–42
  • notoriety of, 71–72
  • on online content, 287
  • on Portfolio, 267–68
  • Reagans’ portrait in Vanity Fair and, 64–66
  • on rebranded Vanity Fair, 48, 57
  • resigning from The New Yorker, 235
  • salary with Condé Nast, 72
  • on Si firing Mirabella from Vogue, 86
  • Talk magazine and, 240, 287
  • at Tatler, 54, 55
  • television show idea, 232–33
  • on Today show, 66
  • Trump and, 113
  • von Bülow feature, 66–67
  • as writer, 53–54, 287–88
• Browning, Dominique, 214, 249–50, 259–60
• Buatta, Mario, 248, 249
• Buck, Joan Juliet, 251
• Buckley, Pat, 192
• Buckley, William F., Jr., 66
• Bullock, Sandra, 89
• Bündchen, Gisele, 278
• Bunyan, John, 43
• Burrough, Bryan, 174
• Bushnell, Candace, 230

• Caine, Michael, 100
• Calvin Klein, 127, 136
• Campbell, Naomi, 88
• The Canadian Review, 171–72
• cancer fundraising, 187–88
• Capote, Truman, 49, 56, 302n49
• Carey, David, 234, 241, 249
• Carey, Hugh, 35
• Carpenter, Sabrina, 291
• Carson, Rachel, 154
• Carter, Graydon
  • background and early career, xiv, 170–72
  • career reflections, xviii
  • co-founding Air Mail, 288
  • on competition in industry, 249–50
  • at Condé Nast global retreat of 2006, 169–70
  • on Condé Nast Publications, 40
  • as editor of Vanity Fair, 113–14, 147–49, 169–70, 172–86, 271–73
  • on expensive photo shoots, 216–17
  • GQ article on Trump and, 109
  • Great Recession and, 269, 273
  • internet and technological advances, 260
  • mortgage from Advance Publications, 220
  • office of, 180–81
  • Oscar parties and, 174–80, 185–86
  • restaurants owned by, 116–17, 185
  • Spy magazine and, 70, 144–47, 172–73, 175–76
  • Trump, feud with, 113–14, 116–20
  • Wintour, friendship with, 145–46, 272
  • writing for House & Garden and Vogue, 145–46
• Carter, Jimmy, 35, 95
• Cartier, 215
• Castelli, Leo, 29, 123
• Cattrall, Kim, 181–82
• Chagall, Marc, 43
• Chancellor, Alexander, 156, 313n156
• Chanel (company), 190, 192
• Chanel, Coco, 31
• Charles III (King of England), 62
• Charles-Roux, Edmonde, 276, 325n276
• Charney, Dov, 266
• Charter Communications, 283
• Chase, Edna Woolman, 4, 31, 192, 214
• China, Vogue fashion shoot in, 91
• Christian Dior (company), 191
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold (García Márquez), 48
• Church of Scientology, 240–41
• Clemente, Diana, 219–20
• Clinton, Bill, 115, 182
• Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 90, 92–93, 115, 117–18
• Clooney, George and Amal, 195
• Coddington, Grace, 82, 189, 220
• Cohn, Roy
  • sexuality, 20, 22
  • Si, friendship and business relationship with, 20–24, 111–13, 126
  • Si’s divorce and, 23–24
  • on Si’s purchase of The New Yorker, 125
  • Trump and, 111–12
• Colacello, Bob, 97
• Coleridge, Nicholas, 283
• Colette, 43
• Collier, Robert, 1
• Collier’s Weekly, 1
• Collins, Joan, 62
• Collins, Nancy, 140
• Combs, Sean “Puff Daddy,” 194–95
• Condé Nast Entertainment, 260
• Condé Nast Portfolio, 263–79
  • advertising in, 263–64, 267
  • closure of, xvii–xviii, 267–68
  • elephant photo shoot, 266–67
  • launch of, xvii, 169–70, 263–64
  • Lipman as editor of, 264–67
• Condé Nast Publications
  • in 1960s, 27–28
  • in 1970s, 39–40
  • accounting system for, 225–26
  • Allure, launch of, 189
  • Architectural Digest, purchase of, 243, 248
  • Bon Appétit, purchase of, 248
  • Cohn giving newsstand preference to, 111
  • competition among magazines of, 249–50
  • Condé Nast Portfolio, launch and closure of, xvii–xviii, 169–70, 263–64, 267–68
  • Condé Nast Traveler, launch of, 135, 224–25
  • counterculture and industry competition, 39–40
  • cultural importance of, xi–xiii, xvii–xviii, 28, 37, 135, 188–89, 284–87
  • death of Si and changes at, xviii, 282–83
  • discrimination at (see racial insensitivity and bias; sexism and misogyny)
  • employee perks at, xiv, 34, 58, 103, 105–6, 216–21
  • financial losses of, 227–28, 231, 233–34
  • folkways and expectations of, 204–8
  • global company retreat of 2006, 169–70
  • Gourmet, purchase and closure of, 42, 135, 270
  • GQ, purchase of, 42, 96
  • Great Depression and, 6
  • Great Recession and, 266–70, 273
  • hiring process at, 54–59, 78, 80–81, 84, 142–49, 204–5, 210–14
  • House & Garden, closure of, 248, 250
  • international growth of, 195–98
  • internet and technological advances, xvii–xviii, 251–61, 290–91
  • Liberman’s influence in, 28, 32–35
  • Nast’s purchase and growth of, 2–6
  • nepotism and favoritism at, 208–10
  • Newhouse Sr.’s purchase of, 7–8, 13–15, 24–26
  • The New Yorker, purchase of, 65, 124, 141–43
  • offices and cafeteria of, xvi, 27, 198–202, 220, 271
  • photo shoot budgets of, 214–18
  • Reddit, purchase of, 283–84
  • Self, launch of, 40–43
  • Si’s early changes at, 28
  • social status of employees at, xi, xiv, 71–72, 82–83, 103, 133, 203–7, 221
  • Tatler, purchase of, 54
  • Trump and, xv, 109–20, 284
  • Wintour as artistic director of, 272
  • Wintour as chief content officer, 289
  • Wired, purchase of, 256
  • See also advertising; individual publications
• Condé Nast Traveler, xii, 135, 224–25, 257, 284
• CondéNet (digital publishing), 255
• Conran, Terence, 75
• Conway, Kellyanne, 119
• Cooper, Arthur “Art”
  • background and early career, xiv, 97–98
  • on car service, 220
  • clothing and image of, 98, 103–4
  • death of, 107
  • as editor of GQ, 98–107
  • on expensive photo shoots, 217
  • on GQ, 108
  • Gutfeld, feud with, 106
• Corden, James, 120
• Cosmopolitan, 39–40, 227
• Coward, Noël, 5, 43
• Crowninshield, Frank, 5, 30, 43–44, 63, 225
• Cruise, Tom, 179
• cultural change
  • Architectural Digest and, xi, 284
  • Condé Nast Publications and, xi–xiii, xvii–xviii, 28, 37, 135, 188–89, 284–87
  • Condé Nast Publications interview process and knowledge of, 204–5, 210–14
  • Condé Nast Traveler and, 284
  • gatekeepers of, xviii, 287
  • GQ and men’s magazines, xi, 100–102, 106–8, 284
  • Great Recession and identity politics, 273–74
  • health and fitness revolution, 40–42, 100
  • House & Garden and, 243–44
  • internet and digital revolutions, xvii–xviii, 251–61
  • Liberman and, 114–15
  • The New Yorker and, xi, 124–25, 128–29, 133, 239–40
  • racial insensitivity and bias at Condé Nast Publishing called out, 274–79
  • Self and fitness revolution, 40–42
  • Trump and, 109–11
  • Vanity Fair and, xi, 5, 44, 51–52, 55, 59–61, 67–69, 135–37, 139–40
  • Vogue and, xi, xix, 84, 88–90, 93
• Cummings, E. E., 43

• The Daily Beast, 287
• Dalí, Salvador, 32
• Danes, Claire, 89
• Deep Throat, 184
• de la Renta, Annette, 192
• de la Renta, Oscar, 73, 192
• Demarchelier, Patrick, 114
• Dershowitz, Alan, 157–58
• Details, 135, 214, 224, 259
• The Devil Wears Prada (film), xii, 31, 74, 204
• de Wolfe, Elsie, 5
• Diana (Princess of Wales), 54, 62, 232, 287
• Diaz, Cameron, 89
• Dietrich, Marlene, 32
• DiGiacomo, Frank, 178, 193
• Diller, Barry, 60, 176, 185, 193, 287
• Dior, Christian, 32
• discrimination. See racial insensitivity and bias; sexism and misogyny
• Doctorow, E. L., 59
• Domingo, Lauren Santo, 6
• Domino, 252, 261
• Donghia, Angelo, 138, 245–46
• Doppelt, Gabé, 31, 89, 200
• Dowd, Maureen, 161–62, 183
• Downie, Leonard, Jr., 183–84
• Draper, Robert, 106
• Dress & Vanity Fair, 4–5
• Drucker, Stephen, 87, 217–18
• Drudge, Matt, 178
• Duchamp, Marcel, 31
• Duke of Marlborough, 19
• Dunne, Dominick, 56–57, 59, 66–67
• Dunne, Dominique, 56–57, 59
• du Plessix, Tatiana, 30, 32–34
• du Plessix Gray, Francine
  • on first Black cover model, 276
  • on Liberman, 31, 34
  • recommendation of Locke for Vanity Fair, 46
  • Vanity Fair cover, 51
  • writing for The New Yorker, 162
• Duquette, Tony, 246
• Durst, Douglas, 198–99
• Dynasty (soap opera), 62

• e-commerce market, 258, 260–61
• Eisinger, Jesse, 266
• Eisner, Michael, 233
• Elgort, Arthur, 76, 91
• Elkind, Peter, 227
• Elle, 84, 123
• Ellis, Perry, 138
• Emanuel, Ari, 181
• Enninful, Edward, 290
• Ephron, Nora, 98
• Epicurious.com, 255–57, 260
• Epstein, Sam and Judith (grandparents of Si), 10
• Ertegun, Ahmet, 60
• Esquire, 39, 42–43, 95–96, 101–2
• Esteban, Michel, 76
• Estée Lauder, 190
• Evangelista, Linda, 88
• Evans, Harold “Harry,” 55–56, 135, 224–25, 288
• Evans, Robert, 185

• Fairchild (publisher), 97
• Fallows, James, 266
• Faludi, Susan, 159–60
• Family Weekly, 98
• Farrow, Ronan, 289
• Fashion Fête, Ritz-Carlton (1914), 4
• Feeney, Joan, 257–58
• Fein, Esther, 240
• Feitler, Bea, 47
• Felt, W. Mark, 184
• feminism, 140, 161–63, 189
• Ferraro, Geraldine, 64
• Fish, (Mrs.) Stuyvesant, 4
• Fisher, Carrie, 161
• Fleischmann, Jeanne, 123
• Fleischmann, Peter, 122–23, 126
• Fleischmann, Raoul, 121–22
• Florio, Steven T.
  • character of, 228–30
  • as chief executive of Condé Nast Publications, 167
  • death of, 269
  • on electronic publishing, 251–52
  • financial losses of Condé Nast and, 228, 231
  • firing of brother, xvi
  • on GQ readers, 101
  • on market changes, 264
  • as president of Condé Nast Publications, 234
  • as president of The New Yorker, 126–28, 141
  • social status of employees and, 213–14
  • Wired purchase and, 256
• Florio, Tom, 167, 230–31, 234
• Floyd, George, xviii
• Flusser, Alan, 102
• Fonda, Jane, 40
• Ford, Tom, 89, 96
• Fortune, on excessive spending at Condé Nast Publications, 227–28, 231
• Four Seasons Grill Room, Manhattan, 103
• Fox, Mitchell, 231, 249–50
• Foxman, Ariel, 221
• Foy, Gray, 50
• France, Kim, 220, 260–61
• Frankenstein, Chester, 23
• Frazier, Ian “Sandy,” 161
• Fresh Hell Substack (Brown), 288
• Friedan, Betty, 189
• Friedman, Sanford, 22
• Friend, Tad, 163
• Fuhrman, Mark, 157

• Gaitskill, Mary, 163
• Galliano, John, xv, 115, 191
• Galotti, Ron, xv, 139, 230–31
• Gandee, Charles, 211, 213
• García Márquez, Gabriel, 48
• Garfinkle, Henry, 111
• Gauguin, Paul, 5
• gay men
  • AIDS epidemic and, 137–38
  • GQ and, 96–97
  • Si’s friendships with, 20, 22
• Geffen, David, 70, 282
• Gehry, Frank, xvi, 200–202
• Gentlemen’s Quarterly. See GQ
• Géraldy, Paul, 198
• Gere, Richard, 143, 192
• Gershwin, George, 5
• Gevinson, Tavi, xviii
• Gibson, Charles Dana, 1
• Gilded Age in New York, 1–2
• Givenchy, 191
• Givhan, Robin, 92
• Gladwell, Malcolm, 159
• Glamour, 6, 29, 141, 197, 271
• Glengarry Glen Ross (play), 59
• Goldberg, Whoopi, 69
• Goldman, Ron, 157
• Goldsmith, Barbara, 208
• Goldwyn, Samuel, 5
• Gopnik, Adam, 220
• Gore, Al, 234
• Gottlieb, Robert
  • as editor of The New Yorker, 129–30, 132–34, 140–41, 143–44, 312n141
  • at Knopf, 46, 129
  • on Si, 175
• Gourevitch, Philip, 259
• Gourmet
  • closure of, 270
  • eccentric spending at, 217
  • online revolution and missed opportunities for, 254–55, 260
  • Si’s purchase of, 42, 135
• GQ, 95–108
  • advertising in, 96–97, 99, 102
  • competition for, 106
  • Cooper as editor of, 98–107
  • cultural importance of, xi, 100–102, 106–8, 284
  • expenses of, 105–6
  • international editions, 102–3
  • internet and technological advances, 257, 259
  • Men of the Year Awards, 103
  • rebranding, 99–100
  • Russian editions, 197
  • sexist workplace culture at, 103–5
  • Si’s purchase of, 42, 96
  • Trump, article and cover on, xv, 109–10, 113
• Graham, Donald, 184
• Graham, Katharine, 12–13
• Graves, Michael, 246
• Graybar Building, Manhattan, 27
• Grazer, Brian, 185
• Great Depression, 6
• Great Recession, 220, 266–70, 273
• Greenberg, Clement, 48, 51
• Grinnell, Sun-Hee, 207
• Gropp, Louis Oliver, 224–25, 247
• Gucci, 89
• Guccione, Bob, 76
• Gunzburg, Nicholas de, 27
• Gutfeld, Greg, 106–7

• Haber, Jack, 96, 99
• Haden-Guest, Anthony, 77
• Hadid, Gigi, 291
• Hahn, Emily, 124
• Halberstam, David, 98
• Haley, Charlotte, 187–88
• Hall, Jerry, 125–26
• Hamilton, William, 121
• Hannah, Daryl, 59
• Happy Yellow (Brown), 53, 72
• Hardwick, Elizabeth, 47
• Harpers & Queen, 75
• Harper’s Bazaar, 75–76, 84, 198, 276, 325n276
• Harris, Kamala, xix
• Harry Winston (retailer), 28
• Hart, Gary, 63–64
• Hayes, Eddie, 229
• health and fitness revolution, 40–42, 100
• Hearst, William Randolph, Jr., 276
• Hearst Corporation
  • attempt to hire Brown, 72, 142
  • as competition for Condé Nast Publications, 39–40, 226, 227
  • refusing to hire Black employees, 275–76
  • See also individual publications
• Henri Bendel dress shop, New York, 3
• Heron, Katrina, 203, 213, 256–57
• Herrera, Reinaldo, 274
• Hersey, John, 154
• Hersh, Seymour M., 155, 240
• Hertzberg, Hendrik, 152–53
• Hicks, Hope, 118–20
• Higgins, Alice, 25
• high/low concept
  • in Allure, 189
  • in Architectural Digest, 247
  • combining politics with entertainment, 284
  • in The New Yorker, 158–59, 239
  • in Vanity Fair, 48, 59–60, 68, 159
  • in Vogue, 87, 191
• Hilton, Paris, 182
• Hitchens, Christopher, 55, 174, 184
• Hitler, Adolf, 63, 113
• Hogg, Min, 75
• homosexuality. See gay men
• Honecker, Erich, 165
• Hoover, Lou Henry, 90
• Hopson, Maury, 138
• Horace Mann School for Boys, Bronx, New York, 20–21
• Horst, Horst P., 30, 43, 91
• HotWired, 253
• House & Garden
  • Architectural Digest as competition for, 246–48, 249
  • Carter as writer for, 145–46
  • celebrity homes in, 247–48
  • closure of, 248, 250
  • cultural changes, reflecting, 243–44
  • Marron’s apartment featured in, 123
  • Nast’s purchase of, 4
  • revival of, 249
  • Si’s rebranding of, 42, 246–47
  • Wintour as editor at, 82, 200, 247–48
• Housman, A. E., 166
• Howard, Ron, 185
• Hughes, Robert, 47
• Hurley, Elizabeth, 89
• Hurt, William, 99, 102
• Huxley, Aldous, 5

• identity politics, 274
• Impoco, Jim, 265, 268
• Instagram, xviii, 59, 250, 258, 286. See also social media
• internet and digital revolution, 251–61
  • advertising revenue and, 270
  • Condé Nast’s reduced cultural influence and, xvii–xviii, 285–87
  • CondéNet and Epicurious.com, 255–57
  • early technological advances and, 251–54
  • missed opportunities in, 259–61
  • newspaper industry and, 268
  • Vogue.com and Style.com, 257–59
  • Wired purchased by Condé Nast Publications, 257–58
  • See also social media
• The Invention of Love (play), 166
• Iraq War, 240
• Irving, John, 48
• Isabell, Robert, 135, 192

• Jackson, Michael, 69, 218
• Jacobs, Marc, 73, 191, 192–93
• James, LeBron, 278
• Janklow, Angela, 208
• Janklow, Morton, 208
• Javits, Jacob, 35
• Jenner, Caitlyn, 272
• Jenner, Kendall, 291
• Jewish people
  • anti-Semitism and, 32, 274–75
  • Hollywood movie industry and, xiv
  • housing restrictions for, 11
  • Ivanka Trump converting to Judaism, 119
  • “Our Crowd” elite, 12, 20, 35
• Johns, Jasper, 123
• Johnson, Beverly, 277
• Johnson, Lady Bird, 91
• Jones, Laurie, 278
• Jones, Radhika, 278–79, 288–89

• Kahn, E. J., Jr., 125, 140–41
• Kaminsky, Howard, 110
• Kaplan, Eliot, 97–98, 219
• Kaplan, Peter W., 235–36
• Karan, Donna, 71, 73
• Karr, Mary, 162
• Kawakubo, Rei, 77
• Keaton, Alex P., 44
• Keillor, Garrison, 153
• Keller, Thomas, 180
• Kelly, Jon, 169–70
• Kelly, Michael, 102
• Kempner, Nan, 195
• Kennedy, Jacqueline, 90–91
• Kennedy, John F., 96
• Kennedy, Robert, 96
• Kidman, Nicole, 179, 184
• The Kid Stays in the Picture (documentary), 185
• Kinski, Nastassja, 189
• Kinsley, Michael, 236–37, 320–21n236
• Kissinger, Henry, 91, 146, 194
• Kissinger, Nancy, 91
• Klein, Calvin, 71, 73, 192
• Kliger, Jack, 97, 100, 101
• Knapp, Cleon “Bud,” 244–45
• Knauss, Melania. See Trump, Melania
• Knopf, 46, 129
• Koch, David, 194–95
• Koons, Jeff, 51, 282
• Koren, Edward, 47
• Kors, Michael, 78, 191
• Kosner, Edward, 77, 149
• Kravis, Henry, 192
• Kron, Joan, 204, 246, 248
• Kruger, Barbara, 286
• Kuhn, David, 159
• Kushner, Jared, 119
• Kushner, Tony, 20

• Lacroix, Christian, 84, 86–87
• Ladies’ Home Journal, 3–4
• Lagerfeld, Karl, 71, 88, 191–92, 195, 196
• La Grenouille, New York, 84
• Lahr, John, 160–61
• Lane, Anthony, 159, 166
• Lange, Jessica, 69
• Lansing, Sherry, 177
• Lauder, Evelyn, 187–88
• Lauder, Leonard, 282
• Lauder, Ronald, 71
• Lauren, Ralph, 49, 71, 73, 77, 192, 282
• Lazar, Irving “Swifty,” 174–75
• Lazarus, Hyman, 9–10
• Leach, Robin, 61
• Lebowitz, Fran, 61, 77, 178
• Le Cirque, New York, 60, 84
• Lehman, Ernest, 179
• Leibovitz, Annie
  • Caitlyn Jenner photograph, 272
  • Demi Moore photograph, 138–40
  • celebrity shoots for Vanity Fair, 69–70
  • exclusive contract with Vogue, 3
  • expensive photo shoots, 216–18
  • Hillary Clinton photographs, 90, 92–93
  • John Irving photograph for Vanity Fair ads, 48
  • Mick Jagger photograph, 47
  • at Oscar parties, 176
  • salary of, 218
• Leland, John, 214
• Lenin’s Tomb (Remnick), 238–39
• Lerman, Leo, 50–51, 56–58, 126
• LeRoy, Warner, 208
• Leser, Bernard, 209
• Letterman, David, 100
• Levin, Amy, 98
• Lewinsky, Monica, 92, 178, 183
• LGBTQ+ people. See gay men
• Liberman, Alexander Semeonovitch
  • on accounting system for Condé Nast Publications, 225–26
  • Allure, hiring Sisman for, 204–5
  • on Architectural Digest, 246
  • art and sculpture of, 45, 79
  • background, xiv, 30
  • on computers, 251
  • as editorial director of Condé Nast Publishing, 33
  • on firing employees, 206
  • GQ and, 97, 99, 101–2
  • hiring Parks as photographer, 275
  • influence in Condé Nast Publishing, 28, 32–35
  • on Ivana Trump Vogue article and cover, 114
  • on Moore Vanity Fair cover, 139
  • mortgage from Advance Publications, 34
  • retiring from Condé Nast Publishing, 223–24
  • as Si’s mentor, 28–30, 32–34, 282
  • social status and image, 30–32, 55, 114–15, 191, 203–4
  • social status of employees and, 213
  • on sparing no expense, 214–16
  • Vanity Fair, hiring Locke for, 46–47
  • Vanity Fair, hiring Brown for, 54–58
  • Vanity Fair, rebranding, 43–52
  • Vogue, firing Mirabella from, 80, 83–85
  • Vogue, firing Vreeland from, 79
  • Vogue, hiring Wintour for, 78, 80–81, 84
  • as Vogue art director, 30–34, 45
• Liberman, Tatiana du Plessix, 30, 32–34, 301n34
• Liebling, A. J., 13, 134
• Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (TV show), 61
• Lindbergh, Peter, 87
• Lipman, Joanne, 264–67
• Little, James Bradley, 245
• Locke, Richard, 46–50, 302n46
• Lois, George, 39, 49
• London, Jack, 1
• Lonstein, Shoshanna, 178
• Louis Vuitton, 191
• Lowenstein, Allard K., 20–22
• Lucky, 260–61
• Luna, Donyale, 276, 325n276
• Lynch, Roger, xviii, 291

• M, 97
• MacDowell, Andie, 78
• MacNeil, Robert, 68
• Mademoiselle, 286
• Madonna, 69–70, 88, 194
• Mamet, David, 59
• Man Ray, 43
• Maples, Marla, 114, 115
• Margaret, Princess (Countess of Snowdon), 19, 32, 54
• Marino, Dan, 99
• Marron, Donald, 122–23
• Matisse, Henri, 43, 47
• Maxim, 106–7
• Mayer, Jane, 155
• Mayle, Peter, 102
• McCallum, Patricia, 22
• McCarthy, Joseph, 20
• McCarthy, Mary, 78
• McCarthy, Pamela Maffei, 222–23, 259
• McGrath, Charles, 129, 156
• McInerney, Jay, 152
• McKinsey & Company, 269
• McNally, Brian, 200
• McNally, Keith, 76–77
• McPhee, John, 151, 238
• McQueen, Alexander, xv
• Meisel, Steven, 176
• Mellen, Polly, 78, 189, 209–10, 216
• Menaker, Daniel, 152
• Menchicchi, Louis “Red,” 219–20
• Mengers, Sue, 185
• Mensch, Pamela Newhouse (daughter of Si)
  • birth of, 23
  • criticism of Vanity Fair, 68
  • at father’s memorial service, 282
  • on father’s purchase of The New Yorker, 124
  • on Newhouse family, social status of, 14, 25
  • on Trump, 111
• men’s magazines, 100–101, 106. See also GQ
• Mercandetti, Susan, 232–33
• Merkin, Daphne, 162–63
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • Anna Wintour Costume Center at, 73–74
  • Met Gala at, xii, xv, 115, 116, 120, 192–95
• Metzner, Sheila, 215
• Michael (Prince of Greece), 209
• Michaels, Lorne, 130, 311n131
• Michener, James, 98
• Midler, Bette, 185
• Milken, Michael, 60
• Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 5
• Miller, Adrienne, 104
• Miller, Arthur, 247
• Miller, Beatrix, 81
• Miller, Dennis, 153
• Miller, Lee, 31
• Minor, Keija, 278
• Mirabella, Grace
  • on 1980s culture, 84
  • as editor of Vogue, xv, 79–86, 216, 222–23
  • fashion shoot in China, 91
  • meeting Wintour, 78
  • on social graces of Si, 33
  • on Wintour’s Vogue, 191
• misogyny. See sexism and misogyny
• Mitchell, Joseph, 155
• Mizrahi, Isaac, 139
• Mondale, Walter, 35, 63–64
• Mondrian, Piet, 31
• Monkey Bar, New York, 185
• Montana, Joe, 99
• Moore, Demi, 138–39
• Morrison, Bonnie, 286
• Morrison, Susan, 146
• Morton’s, West Hollywood, 175, 179
• Moss, Adam, 149
• Moss, Kate, 192–93
• Murdoch, Rupert, 55, 218
• Murphy, Eddie, 71
• Murphy, Gerald, 101
• Muschamp, Herbert, 201–2

• Nast, Clarisse Coudert, 1–2
• Nast, Condé Montrose
  • birth of, 1
  • cultural authority of, 5–6
  • death and eulogies for, 6–7
  • firing Beaton for anti-Semitism, 274–75
  • Great Depression and, 6
  • hiring efficiency engineer for company, 225
  • magazine purchases and growth of publishing company, 2–6
  • marriage to Clarisse Coudert, 1–2
  • obelisk monuments of, 6
  • shipping Vogue internationally, 198
  • social status and wealth, 1–6
• Nast, Natica, 12
• National Magazine Awards, 182
• Nazis, 119. See also Hitler, Adolf
• Needleman, Deborah, 252, 261
• Neeson, Liam, 194
• Negroponte, Nicholas, 253
• Neiman Marcus, 258
• Nelson, Jim, 107, 221
• Newark Star-Ledger, 29
• Newhouse, Donald (brother of Si)
  • birth and childhood of, 10–12
  • family newspaper business and, xiii, 18, 21, 52, 124, 227–28
  • investments securing Newhouse family, 124, 141, 283
  • marriage, 24–25
  • on Si’s dementia and death, 281–82
  • on Si’s purchase of The New Yorker, 124, 143
• Newhouse, Jane Franke (first wife of Si), 14, 18–19, 23–25
• Newhouse, Jonathan (cousin of Si), 196–98, 282–83
• Newhouse, Meyer (grandfather of Si), 8–9
• Newhouse, Mitzi Epstein (mother of Si)
  • design and fashion interests, 10–11, 13–14, 19
  • Libermans, friendship with, 32–33
  • marriage to Newhouse Sr., 10
  • meeting Princess Margaret, 19
  • relationship with Si, 18–20, 25
  • social status, 11–14, 19, 25, 35
  • Vogue and, 8, 13–14, 25
• Newhouse, Norman (uncle of Si), 282
• Newhouse, Rose Arenfeldt (grandmother of Si), 9
• Newhouse, Sam, III (son of Si), 23
• Newhouse, Samuel I., Sr. (father of Si)
  • Advance Publications and, 8, 10–11
  • birth and childhood of, 8–9
  • Cohn and, 111–12
  • Condé Nast Publications, purchase of, 7–8, 13–15, 24–26
  • death of, 15, 35–37
  • early career, 9–10
  • Libermans, friendship with, 32–33
  • marriage to Mitzi Epstein, 10
  • newspaper business, 18–19, 36
  • The New Yorker, attempt to purchase, 121–22
  • relationship with Si, 18, 20–22, 25–26, 33, 36, 112, 299n21
  • social status, 8, 11–14, 19, 25, 35, 121–22
• Newhouse, Samuel Irving “Si,” Jr.
  • birth and childhood of, 10–12
  • children of, 23
  • Cohn, friendship and business relationship, 20–24, 111–13, 126
  • death of, xii, xviii, 281–82
  • divorce from Jane Franke, 24
  • education, 20–23
  • family newspaper business and, 19, 23–25, 29
  • father, relationship with, 18, 20–22, 25–26, 33, 36, 112, 299n21
  • Lowenstein, friendship with, 20–22
  • marriage to Jane Franke, 23–24
  • marriage to Victoria Carrington Benedict de Ramel, 36
  • mother, relationship with, 18–20, 25
  • movies, reverence for, 175
  • sexuality, 22
  • social status and, xiii, 15, 17, 25, 33, 126, 203, 282
• Newhouse, Samuel Irving “Si,” Jr. at Condé Nast Publishing
  • on advertising sales, 231
  • Allure and, 189–90
  • apartment featured in The New York Times, 17–18
  • Architectural Digest, purchase of, 243, 248
  • Bon Appétit, purchase of, 248
  • British Vogue and, 81–82
  • Brown’s resignation and, 235
  • as chairman, 36, 40
  • Condé Nast Portfolio, closure of, 267–68
  • Condé Nast Portfolio, launch of, xvii, 263–64
  • Condé Nast Traveler, launch of, 135, 224–25
  • employees’ fear of, xv–xvi
  • expensive photo shoots and employee perks, 216–21
  • at fifth anniversary party of Vanity Fair, 136
  • financial losses of Condé Nast and, 227–28
  • Gourmet, purchase of, 42, 135
  • GQ and, 42, 95–108
  • hiring Carter for Vanity Fair, 144–48
  • House & Garden and, 82, 246–48
  • internet and technological innovation, 252–61
  • Liberman mentoring, 28–30, 32–34, 282
  • at Met Gala, 193
  • monthly “print order” meetings with, 281
  • new offices and cafeteria at 4 Times Square, xvi, 199–202
  • The New Yorker and, 28, 65, 122–34, 141–42, 151, 166–67, 235–41
  • Oscar parties of Vanity Fair and, 177, 179
  • Random House, purchase of, 42, 110
  • Self and, 40–43, 187
  • Tatler, purchase of, 54
  • Truman as Liberman’s successor, 224
  • Trump and, xv, 109–17, 308–9n112
  • Vanity Fair and, 43–52, 54–58, 65–66, 68–69, 72, 172–73
  • on Vanity Fair television show, 232–33
  • Vogue and, 26, 28, 83, 85–86
  • Wintour and, 82–86
  • Wired, purchase of, 256
• Newhouse, Steven O. (nephew of Si), 119, 253, 272–73, 283–84
• Newhouse, Victoria Carrington Benedict de Ramel (second wife of Si), 36, 200–201, 281
• Newhouse, Wynn (son of Si), 23
• Newman, Barnett, 29
• Newsweek, Newhouse Sr.’s attempt to purchase, 12
• Newton, Helmut, 59, 67, 76
• Newton-John, Olivia, 40
• The New Yorker, 151–67
  • advertising in, 121–22, 123, 127–28
  • Brown as editor of, 142–44, 148–49, 151–67, 223, 232–34, 287
  • Brown resigning from, 235
  • criticism of, 153–54, 160–63
  • cultural importance of, xi, 124–25, 128–29, 133, 239–40
  • financial losses and gains of, 227–28, 233–34, 241
  • Florio as president of, 126–28, 141
  • Gottlieb as editor of, 129–30, 132–34, 140–41, 143–44, 312n144
  • high/low concept in, 158–59, 239
  • The Hot List of, 163–65
  • internet and technological advances, 257, 259
  • Newhouse Sr., Liebling’s insults of, 13
  • Newhouse Sr.’s attempt to purchase, 121–22
  • New Yorker Festival, 241, 289
  • Next Conference, 234
  • on O. J. Simpson trial, 156–59
  • paywall of website, 289
  • Pulitzer Prizes of, 160, 289
  • Remnick as editor of, 163, 238–41, 289
  • search for new editor of, 236–38
  • Shawn as editor of, xv, 122–30, 154
  • “Shouts & Murmurs” feature, 152
  • Si’s purchase and publication of, 28, 65, 122–34, 141–43
  • “Special Women’s Issue,” 161–63
  • “Talk of the Town” feature, 156, 165
  • on Trump, 119
  • union employee protests, xii, 295nxii
• New York magazine, 77–78
• The New York Observer
  • Carter as editor at, 146–47, 174
  • on Carter-Trump relationship, 113
  • on end of Condé Nast era, 269–70
  • Met Gala coverage in, 193
  • “Sex and the City” column in, 230
• The New York Times
  • on Brown hired for The New Yorker, 144
  • on Carter’s retirement from Vanity Fair, 272
  • on Condé Nast cafeteria, xvi, 201–2
  • DealBook Summit, 233
  • on favoritism at Vanity Fair, 208
  • on men’s magazines, 100–101
  • Met Gala coverage in, 195
  • on Mirabella fired from Vogue, 86
  • Newhouse Sr.’s attempt to purchase, 12
  • on Oscar parties of Vanity Fair, xviii
  • Si’s apartment featured in, 17–18
  • on Si’s purchase of The New Yorker, 124
  • Styles section, xv
  • on Time & Life Building, xvi
  • Trump and, 117, 118–19
  • on VH1 Fashion Awards, 89
  • on Wintour’s changes at Vogue, 88
• Niccolini, Julian, 103, 104
• Nicholson, Jack, 69–70
• Nixon, Richard, 184
• Nocera, Joseph, 227
• Norwich, William, 80, 211, 213, 275
• Noth, Chris, 230
• Novogrod, Nancy, 248

• Oates, Joyce Carol, 76, 162
• Obama, Barack, 116, 117, 272, 284
• Obama, Michelle, 73
• O’Connor, John D., 184
• Odell, Amy, 232, 277–78
• Orlean, Susan, 159
• Ormond, Julia, 196
• Orth, Maureen, 183
• Oscar de la Renta (company), 92
• Oscar parties of Vanity Fair, xii, xv, xviii, 116, 174–80, 185–86, 288–89
• Osnos, Peter, 110, 112
• Ovitz, Michael, 70, 165

• Packer, George, 259
• Paglia, Camille, 140
• Paltrow, Gwyneth, 177, 194
• Parade, 98
• Paramount Hotel, New York, 135
• Parker, Dorothy, 5
• Parks, Gordon, 275
• Passages (Sheehy), 63
• Patcévitch, Iva, 32, 35
• Patchett, Ann, 217
• Penn, Irving
  • Vanity Fair photographs, 47, 50–51
  • Vogue photographs, 26, 30–31, 191, 215
• Penney, Alexandra, 187–88, 221
• Penske, Jay, 283
• Perl, Maurie, 152, 157, 164–65, 220
• Perry, Katy, 291
• Pfeiffer, Michelle, 59, 89
• Picasso, Pablo, 43, 44
• pink ribbon campaign, 187–88
• Pinterest, 261
• Place Vendôme fashion show, France (2024), 290–91
• Playboy, 39, 95
• Pochoda, Elizabeth, 48
• Pollitt, Katha, 162
• Pollock, Jackson, 31
• Pool, Mary Jane, 42, 246
• Portfolio. See Condé Nast Portfolio
• Post, Emily, 43
• Pulitzer Prize, 160, 289
• Purdum, Todd, 182, 216, 274
• Putin, Vladimir, 197

• Queenan, Joe, 99
• Quinn, Sally, 56, 238

• racial insensitivity and bias
  • at Bon Appétit, xii, 274
  • at Condé Nast Publishing, 274–79, 325n276
  • at Hearst Corporation, 275–76
  • in Vanity Fair, 177, 274
  • at Vogue, xviii, 276–79, 325n277
• Ralph Lauren, 49
• Random House, 42, 110–12, 129
• Rapoport, Adam, 274
• Rayner, Billy, 221–22
• Reagan, Nancy, 64–66, 246
• Reagan, Ronald, 64–66, 137–38, 246
• Reardon, Kate, 209
• Reddit, 283–84
• Red Scare, 20
• Reichl, Ruth, 260, 268
• Remnick, David
  • background, xiv, 237–39
  • as editor of The New Yorker, 163, 238–41, 289
  • Great Recession and, 268
  • Lenin’s Tomb, 238–39
  • recommending Toobin for The New Yorker, 156
  • Trump and, 119
  • writing for GQ, 99
  • writing for The New Yorker, 155
• Rense, Paige, xiv, 244–50
• Revlon, 83
• Rice, Donna, 64
• Rice, Linda, 225, 256
• Richards, Keith, 59
• Richardson, John, 248
• Richman, Alan, 105–6
• Ripken, Cal, Jr., 99
• Ritts, Herb, 62, 183
• Ritz-Carlton, Vogue Fashion Fête (1914), 4
• Roberts, Julia, 89
• Rolling Stone, 39
• Rose, Barbara, 32
• Ross, Harold, 121–22, 151
• Ross, Lillian, 126–27, 130–32, 311n131
• Ross, Steve, 70
• Rossellini, Isabella, 281
• Royalton Hotel, New York, 136, 200
• Rubell, Steve, 135–36
• Runge, Bernd, 198
• Russian Vogue, 195–97
• Russo, Rene, 80
• Ryder, Winona, 89

• Saint-Laurent, Yves, 83
• Salinger, J. D., 130
• Salle, David, 78
• Sarkin, Jane, 136, 176, 179
• Savant, Marilyn vos, 99
• Sawyer, Diane, 69
• Scaasi, Arnold, 19–20
• Schell, Jonathan, 129
• Schiff, Stephen, 60, 67, 71, 166, 304n71
• Schiffer, Claudia, 192
• Schjeldahl, Peter, 240
• Schlafly, Phyllis, 139
• Schlossberg, Jack, 290
• Schnabel, Julian, 78
• Schrager, Ian, 135–36
• Schumacher, Joel, 140
• Schwartz, Tony, 110
• Schygulla, Hanna, 51
• Scientology, 240–41
• Scott, L’Wren, 180
• Seabrook, John, 68, 165
• Seinfeld, Jerry, 194
• Self, 40–42, 187–88, 271
• Sendak, Maurice, 47
• Sephora, 190
• Sertl, William, 217
• sex, The New Yorker on, 162–63
• “Sex and the City” column (Bushnell), 230
• Sex and the Single Girl (H. G. Brown), 39
• sexism and misogyny
  • Condé Nast Publishing leadership and, 222–24, 229, 232
  • encountered by Brown at The New Yorker, 153
  • encountered by Wintour at Vogue, 210
  • at GQ, 103–5
  • media on alleged affair between Si and Wintour, 85
  • in Vanity Fair “Hollywood Issue,” 177
• Shaffer, David, 82, 85, 136–37
• Shapiro, Robert, 157
• Shawn, William
  • as editor at Broadway Video, 130
  • as editor of The New Yorker, xv, 122–30, 154
  • screenplay criticism of Condé Nast, 131–32, 311n131
  • Si’s purchase of The New Yorker and, 125–26
• Sheehy, Gail, 63–64, 71
• Shepherd, Cybill, 69
• Shnayerson, Michael, 68–69, 138
• Simmons, Richard, 40
• Simons, Raf, 73
• Simpson, Babs, 33
• Simpson, Nicole, 157
• Simpson, O. J., 156–59
• Sinatra, Frank, 83
• Sinclair, Upton, 1
• S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, 22
• Sischy, Ingrid, 133, 144
• Sisman, Lucy, 82, 204–5, 213
• 60 Minutes profile on Vanity Fair, 67
• Slavin, Sarah, 221–22
• Smith, Liz, 67, 83–85, 176
• Smith, Roberta, 139–40
• social media
  • amateur influencers and, 258
  • dangers of, 285–87
  • as depictions of real life, 285
  • high/low concept in, 59–60
  • house tours on, 250, 284
  • Vogue and, 290
  • See also internet and digital revolution
• Social Register, 2
• social status and wealth
  • 1980s and increase in wealthy people, 61, 84
  • clothing and, 98, 101, 207
  • Condé Nast cafeteria, eating in, 202
  • Condé Nast employees and, xi, xiv, 71–72, 82–83, 103, 133, 203–7, 221
  • conspicuous consumption and, xiii–xiv, 2, 3–4, 61–62
  • Gilded Age in New York and, 1–2
  • hiring process at Condé Nast Publications and, 210–14
  • influencers and social media, 285–87
  • Jewish people and “Our Crowd” elite, 12, 20, 35
  • Liberman and, 30–32, 55, 114–15, 191, 203–4
  • magazine instruction on, 41–42
  • Manhattan’s “Four Hundred,” 1–2
  • Met Gala and, xv, 195
  • Nast family and, 1–6
  • Newhouse Sr. and Mitzi, 8, 11–14, 19, 25, 35, 121–22
  • The New Yorker and, 122, 125
  • Oscar parties of Vanity Fair and, 178–80, 185–86
  • Si and, xiii, 15, 17, 25, 33, 126, 203, 282
  • taste as indicator of class, 3, 67–68
  • Trump and, 111
  • Vanity Fair and, 5, 60–62, 183
  • Vogue and, 2–3
• Solca, Luca, 285–86
• Sorel, Edward, 153
• South, Hamilton, 218
• Spero, Anthony, 219
• Spice Girls, 89
• Spy, 70, 144–47, 172–73, 175–76
• Stahl, Lesley, 117
• Stark, Koo, 54
• The Staten Island Advance, 10–11
• Steichen, Edward, 3, 43, 214, 275
• Stein, Gertrude, 5
• Steinberg, Saul, 60
• Stone, Sharon, 89
• Stoppard, Tom, 166
• Streisand, Barbra, 275
• Studio 54, 72, 112, 308–9n112
• Stuff, 106
• Style.com, 258–59
• Styron, William, 137
• Sutherland, Donald, 100
• Sykes, Plum, 207
• Syracuse University, 22

• Talese, Gay, 29, 159
• Talk, 240, 287
• Talley, André Leon, 114, 115, 193, 277–78
• Tartikoff, Brandon, 102
• Tatler, 54, 55, 197
• Taylor, Elizabeth, 69
• Taylor, Lisa, 80
• Teen Vogue, 205–6, 271, 278
• Thackeray, William, 43
• 30 Rock (TV show), 181
• Thomas, Isiah, 99
• Thompson, Hunter S., 39
• TikTok, xviii, 59–60, 250, 284. See also social media
• Tilberis, Liz, 194
• Time & Life Building, New York, xvi, 199–202
• Time Inc., 271
• Tisch, Lawrence, 146
• Tisch, Steve, 175
• Toledano, Phillip, 266
• Toobin, Jeffrey, 156–58
• To Russia with Vogue (documentary), 196–97
• Townsend, Charles “Chuck,” xvii, 268–70
• Trillin, Calvin
  • on Gottlieb, 132, 143
  • on Hot List of The New Yorker, 164
  • on Newhouse family, social status of, 14
  • on Remnick as editor of The New Yorker, 239
  • on Si’s purchase of The New Yorker, 126
• Trow, George W. S., 125, 128, 158–59
• Truman, James
  • cafeteria at 4 Times Square and, 199–202
  • as editor of Details, 224
  • on Epicurious.com, 256
  • influence on Liberman’s clothing, 114–15
  • on internet, 260
  • as Liberman’s successor at Condé Nast Publishing, 224
  • Lucky and, 260–61
• Trump, Donald J., 109–20
  • The Apprentice TV show and, 111
  • The Art of the Deal, xv, 110–12
  • Brenner’s investigative piece on, 71, 113
  • Carter at Vanity Fair, feud with, 113–14, 116–20
  • Condé Nast Publications and, xv, 113, 284
  • GQ article and cover, xv, 109–10, 113
  • media relations and presidency, 117–20, 290
  • Melania, marriage to, 115
  • Si and, xv, 109–17, 308–9n112
  • Vanity Fair articles on, 71, 110, 113–14, 116–17, 120
• Trump, Ivana, 69, 113, 114
• Trump, Ivanka, 115, 119
• Trump, Melania, xv, 90, 115–16, 120
• Trump University, 116–17
• Turner, Kathleen, 69
• Turnure, Arthur, 2

• Udell, Rochelle, 254–55
• Ukraine, Russian invasion of, 197
• Updike, John, 153, 247
• Urban, Binky, 102

• Vadukul, Max, 217
• Valentino, 71
• Vanity Fair, 53–72
  • advertising in, 44, 48–49, 51, 65, 68, 71, 113
  • The Art of the Deal excerpt in, 110
  • Barr, article and cover on, 160–61
  • Brown as editor of, xiv–xv, 58–72, 135–42, 151, 218, 232–33
  • Carter as editor of, 113–14, 147–49, 169–70, 172–86, 271–73
  • celebrity coverage in, 69–70
  • criticism of, 68, 70–71
  • Crowninshield as editor of, 5, 43–45, 63
  • cultural importance of, xi, 5, 44, 51–52, 55, 59–61, 67–69, 135–37, 139–40, 284
  • on Deep Throat, 184
  • on English royals, 62
  • fifth anniversary party for, 135–36
  • high/low concept in, 48, 59–60, 68, 159
  • “Hollywood Issue,” 177, 179
  • hyping upcoming magazine articles to press, xiv–xv, 174
  • internet and technological advances, 257
  • Jones as editor of, 278–79, 288
  • Lerman as editor of, 50–51, 56–58
  • Locke as editor of, 46–50
  • Moore, article and cover on, 138–40
  • Nast’s purchase of, 4–5
  • nepotism and favoritism at, 208
  • offices of, 180–81
  • Oscar parties, xii, xv, xviii, 116, 174–80, 185–86, 288
  • on politics, 63–66
  • on public health issues, 136–38
  • racial insensitivity and bias at, 177, 274
  • Reagans’ portrait in, 64–66
  • sexism and misogyny at, 177
  • Si’s and Liberman’s rebranding of, 43–52
  • 60 Minutes profile on, 67
  • social status and wealth, focus on, 60–62
  • television show idea, 232–33
  • Trump, articles on, 71, 110, 113–14, 116–17, 120
  • “We Nominate for Oblivion” feature in, 43–44, 63
  • writers’ salaries at, 45, 69
• van Wyck, Bronson, 178–79
• van Zandt, Pamela, 83
• Vendler, Helen, 47
• Versace, 192
• Versace, Donatella, 73, 196
• Versace, Gianni, 71, 88, 194
• VH1 Fashion Awards, 89
• Vidal, Gore, 249
• Viva, 76
• Vogel, Lucien, 30
• Vogue, 73–93
  • in 1960s and 1970s, 78–80
  • advertising in, 3–4, 84, 194
  • anti-Semitism in, 274–75
  • beginning of, 2–3
  • biggest issue, 270–71
  • Carter as writer for, 145–46
  • celebrity covers and career boosts, 89–90
  • Chase as editor of, 4, 31
  • China, fashion shoot in, 91
  • counterculture and industry competition, 40
  • cultural importance of, xi, xix, 84, 89–90, 93
  • designers, shaping careers of, 190–91
  • employees and social status, 207–8
  • exclusive photographers for, 249
  • expensive photo shoots for, 215–17
  • Fashion Fête of 1914, 4
  • global fashion and, xv
  • high/low concept in, 87, 191
  • hundredth-birthday party and centennial issue, 191
  • international offices and versions of, xvi, xviii, 195–98, 289–90 (see also British Vogue; Vogue Paris)
  • internet and technological advances, 257–58
  • Ivana Trump, article and cover on, 114
  • Liberman as art director at, 30–34, 45
  • Melania Trump, articles on, 115, 120
  • Met Gala and, xii, 115, 116, 120, 192–95
  • middle-class readers, appeal to, 3–4
  • Mirabella as editor at, xv, 79–86, 216, 222–23
  • Mitzi Newhouse in, 25
  • Nast’s purchase of, 2–3
  • new era of celebrity coverage in, 88–89
  • Newhouse Sr.’s purchase of, 13–14
  • overspending on models, 222
  • “People Are Talking About…” column, 25
  • Place Vendôme fashion show, 290–91
  • on politics, 63, 90–93, 117–18, 290
  • racial insensitivity and bias at, xviii, 276–79
  • Russian Vogue, 195–97
  • Si appointed as publisher and changes to, 26–28
  • social status and wealth, 2–3
  • Teen Vogue, 205–6, 271, 278
  • VH1 Fashion Awards and, 89
  • Vogue100 perks, 271
  • Vogue Paris, 4, 198, 251, 276, 289
  • Vreeland as editor at, 34–35, 45, 79, 215–16, 276–77
  • Wintour as creative director at, 80–81
  • Wintour as editor at, xv, 73–74, 83–93, 114–15, 117–18, 249
  • Wintour as global editorial director, 289–90
• Vogue.com, 257–58
• Vogue Paris, 4, 198, 251, 276, 289
• Vogue Russia, 195–97
• Volpe, Lynden “Carolyne,” 207–8
• von Bülow, Claus, 67
• von Furstenberg, Diane, 73, 176, 282
• Vreeland, Diana
  • as editor of Vogue, 34–35, 45, 79, 215–16, 276–77
  • luxury design input of, 190–91
  • Met Gala and, 192
  • on Nast’s parties, 5
  • in Vanity Fair, 59

• Wachenfeld, Haus, 91
• Waithe, Lena, 279
• Walker, Mike, 158
• Wallace, Thomas J., 252
• Walters, Barbara, 24
• Wang, Alexander, 73
• Wang, Vera, 209–10
• Warburg, Gerald, 12
• Warfield, Rebecca, 79
• Warhol, Andy, 80, 83, 305n80
• Warner Bros. Discovery, 283
• Washington Post, 12–13, 238–39
• Wasserstein, Wendy, 162
• Waugh, Auberon, 55
• Waverly Inn, New York, 116–17, 185
• Weaver, Sigourney, 69
• Webb, Jonathan, 171
• Weber, Bruce, 96, 127
• Weiner, Anthony, 118
• Weinstein, Harvey, 89–90, 194, 234–35, 240, 287, 289
• Wells, Linda
  • on CondéNet, 259
  • on culture of Condé Nast Publishing, 207
  • as editor of Allure, 189–90, 213–14, 223
  • Liberman and, 115, 189
• Welteroth, Elaine, 278
• Wexner, Leslie, 258
• White, Kate, 107
• White House Correspondents’ Dinner, 184–85
• Whitney, Ruth, 224
• Wickenden, Dorothy, 159
• Wigand, Jeffrey, 182
• Williams, Serena, 291
• Wilson, Phyllis Starr, 40–41, 187
• Winchell, Walter, 274–75
• Winfrey, Oprah, 277
• Wintour, Anna
  • Anna Wintour Costume Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 73–74
  • as artistic director of Condé Nast, 272
  • background and early career of, 74–77
  • Carter, friendship with, 145–46, 272
  • as chief content officer of Condé Nast, 289
  • as creative director for Vogue, 80–81
  • designers, shaping careers of, 190–91
  • as editor of British Vogue, 81–82
  • as editor of House & Garden, 82, 200, 247–48
  • as editor of Vogue, xv, 73–74, 83–93, 114–15, 117–18, 249
  • first Vogue cover, 86–88
  • as global editorial director of Vogue, 289–90
  • global fashion and, xv
  • Hillary Clinton and, 90, 117–18
  • as inspiration for The Devil Wears Prada, 74, 204
  • internet and technological advances, 257–58
  • management style of, 210
  • Met Gala and, 192–95
  • mortgage from Advance Publications, 220
  • Presidential Medal of Freedom, 290
  • Princess Diana lunch conversation in The New Yorker, 232
  • on racial bias at Vogue, xviii, 277–79
  • tribute to husband, 136–37
  • Trump and, 114–15, 117–20, 290
  • union employees picketing outside home of, xii, 295nxii
  • VH1 Fashion Awards and, 89
  • Vogue100 perks and, 271
• Wired, 253, 256–57
• Wolcott, James, 152, 159, 161–62
• Wolfe, Tom, xvii, 39, 263, 265
• Women’s Wear Daily, xvi
• Woodward, Bob, 184
• Wright, Lawrence, 240–41
• Wrightsman, Jayne, 194
• Wurtzel, Elizabeth, 137

• Yamamoto, Yohji, 78, 114
• A Year in Provence (Mayle), 102
• Youngbird, Marilyn, 63–64
• “Youth Quake,” 79

• Zellweger, Renée, 89
• Zinczenko, David, 107
• Zuckerman, Mort, 60, 233