{"id":13927,"date":"2025-07-12T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13927"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:47:31","slug":"days-gone-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/12\/days-gone-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Days Gone By"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/27\/business\/media\/conde-nast-magazines-vogue-vanity-fair.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SE8.h0PF.7FWuUQHvqLRW&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-12a7967a\">The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Cond\u00e9 Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Opulent days are over at Vogue, Vanity Fair and other once-powerful glossies. Anna Wintour is giving up (some) control. Now that everyone\u2019s a gatekeeper, why do we keep recreating their status-obsessed world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/michael-m-grynbaum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael M. Grynbaum<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/06\/29\/business\/29conde-nast-cover-illo\/29conde-nast-cover-illo-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Illustration by Chantal Jahchan; Photos: Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As the longtime editor in chief of Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter was accustomed to big expenses: chauffeured town cars, five-star hotel stays, writer salaries that stretched into the mid six-figures. But in early 2001, he wondered if he had gone too far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Annie Leibovitz, the magazine\u2019s chief photographer, had run up a $475,000 bill on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2009-06-04\/vanity-fair-hollywood-cover-by-annie-leibovitz\/1704266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a cover shoot<\/a>\u00a0involving 10 world-famous actresses \u2014 Nicole Kidman, Pen\u00e9lope Cruz, Sophia Loren \u2014 and an elaborate stage set, complete with a mantelpiece and a genuine John Singer Sargent painting, which was flown from Los Angeles to New York to London. (\u201cIt was like Vietnam, the expenses,\u201d Mr. Carter recalled.) Now, he needed to tell his boss,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/01\/obituaries\/si-newhouse-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">S.I. Newhouse Jr.<\/a>, the billionaire owner and patron of Cond\u00e9 Nast, about the latest line item on his tab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI do have to talk to you about something,\u201d Mr. Carter said as the men sat down for lunch. \u201cIt\u2019s a good-news-bad-news situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the bad news?\u201d Mr. Newhouse asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell, I think we just shot the most expensive cover in magazine history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pause. \u201cWhat\u2019s the good news?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt looks like a $475,000 cover.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the equivalent of roughly $850,000 today. Mr. Newhouse was fine with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/27\/business\/media\/conde-nast-magazines-vogue-vanity-fair.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SE8.h0PF.7FWuUQHvqLRW&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Cond\u00e9 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\u2019s a gatekeeper, why do we keep recreating their status-obsessed world? By\u00a0Michael M. 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