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How Condé Nast Learned to Love Tangling With Trump

It's not just the New Yorker and Teen Vogue. The luxury publisher has it in for the president.

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By Kyle Chayka

February 13, 2017 at 10:00 AM UTC

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In the melee of coverage before and after the election, no glossy magazine publisher has been more publicly invested in swinging hard against Donald Trump than Condé Nast. And it’s not just within the usual highbrow political pages of the New Yorker.

Vogue, a fashion title that had never played presidential politics in its 124-year history, saw fit to endorse Hillary Clinton. Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter’s personal Trump feud, running since the 1980s, opened a new front with a devastating review of the restaurant sitting below Trump’s Manhattan penthouse. Architectural Digest featured a spread of the Obama White House’s quietly tasteful interiors in November, an implicit yet stark contrast to the gold curtains chosen by the next Oval Office denizen. Even Teen Vogue, a title with a reputation for middle-school fashion tips, is now daily publishing salvos on Trump.