Empire of the Elite: Inside Conde Nast, the media dynasty that reshaped the world

Name: Empire of the Elite: Inside Conde Nast, the media dynasty that reshaped the world
Author: Michael M. Grynbaum
ISBN: 9781399707213

by Michael M. Grynbaum

ISBN: 9781399707213

Published: 2025-07

Business & Economics

For decades, Condé Nast and its glittering magazines defined how to live the good life in America. The brilliant, complicated, striving characters behind Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, Architectural Digest, and many other titles manufactured a vision of luxury and sophistication that shaped consumer habits, cultural trends, intellectual attitudes, and political beliefs the world over. Condé's billionaire owner Si Newhouse and his stable of star editors, photographers, and writers were the gatekeepers who decided what and who mattered, and they offered those opinions to tens of millions of readers every month. They were the ultimate influencers-before social media changed everything. The magazines crowned celebrities by the dozens, patronized creative talent much as the Medicis had underwritten Renaissance artists, and supercharged opulent events like the Vanity Fair Oscar Party and the Met Gala, which came to rival any fete that Louis XIV ever hosted at Versailles. The...

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