off the record

Mr. Fielden and Mr. Benson

Photographer Harry Benson Convinces Town & Country Editor Jay Fielden He's Naturally Beautiful

“This isn’t my real work,” photojournalist Harry Benson told Off the Record, gesturing at a wall of his photographs.

He was surrounded by intimate candids of bold-face names, taken over the course of his 40-year career at magazines like Life and Vanity Fair. All together they tell a colorful history of New York society, but he’d rather be known for his photographs of U.S. presidents. Read More

Wintour’s Duchy: Her Men’s Vogue Is Jostling GQ

To conjure the archetype of the Vogue man, Men’s Vogue editor Jay Fielden turned to literature. His new magazine, he had been saying, will be guided by the concept of “things that are real, things that are authentic, things that endure.”

So forget Marc or Calvin for the moment. “I was reading this obituary about Read More