Working there requires you in part to be multi-talented — to have “specific knowledge” of different industries and social scenes and to know “how the world works,” said Mr. Brown, who has worked at Vanity Fair for more than two decades, starting as Mr. Carter’s assistant in 1994. . The job also included being a living embodiment of the elegant world created by senior editors.
Now, according to Mr. South’s notes, Standard needed culturally astute storytellers and world builders. People who can burnish the reputation of a subsidiary of Siplast, which has worked on the roofs of notable buildings like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Moynihan Train Hall.
Mrs. Kseniak consulted first and got on board In late 2019. Already a cast member, Harrison Vail is a member of her Vanity Fair cast called Mr. South. Others soon follow, such as Mrs. Switzer and Mr. Gilmore, who is now Mr. Millstone’s chief of staff.
Mr. Phil has returned to work for Mr. Carter as Director of Communications at Air Mail. Ms. Kseniak, Ms. Switzer, Mr. Gilmore and Mr. South, through a spokesperson for Standard, declined to comment for this article.
Mr. Brown, 50, who chronicled his time in Vanity Fair in his memoirs,”delicacyHe was surprised at first to hear that some of his former colleagues work for an industrial company, he said, but he understood the appeal. By then, the golden age of magazine publishing was over, killed by the internet and social media, and the notoriously lavish budgets and salaries gone.
“I tell you, if I got a call from Standard Industries, offering me a job with great salary and benefits, I would say, ‘Shit. said Mr. Brown. (Some of his colleagues who left Vanity Fair moved on to jobs more similar to what they were doing. Amy Bell, deputy editor, He became Vice President at Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Krista Smith, Executive Editor of West Coast Magazine, He went to work at Netflix.)