“The world may have been a smaller, cozier place when Mr. Fairchild was editing W, but he knew how to relate events in the background to the socialites hopping around the foreground: ’80s trophy dressing to ’80s corporate raiders. With a number of articles in the new W, I wondered: Why am I reading this? What’s the big picture?” — New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn writing about Stefano Tonchi’s redesign of W, which debuted with his September issue.
