After occupying fashion and media conversations since its release on Monday, the inaugural men’s style issue of New York Magazine was toasted properly on Tuesday evening with a celebratory dinner.
New York’s editor in chief David Haskell, senior men’s style editor Samuel Hine and editor at large Erik Maza cohosted a dinner at Bistrot Ha on the Lower East Side, with support from Canada Goose. The New York team was joined by the creators behind the issue as well as some of the famous faces in its pages.
Guests included Mike Faist, currently making the promotion rounds for the upcoming Netflix adaptation of “East of Eden;”; stars of the Netflix show “Boots” Angus O’Brien and Jack Cameron Kay; actors Isaac Cole Powell and Brandon Flynn; playwright Jordan Tannahill, and musician Holden Jaffe, known as Del Water Gap. Designers Todd Snyder, Wes Gordon and Paul Arnhold were there, as was model Wisdom Kaye, who is featured in the issue; artist and photographer, Iké Udé, who photographed Kaye, and photographers Ryan McGinley and stylist Miyako Bellizzi, the duo responsible for the bathhouse-set cover story.
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“Mostly I work for museums — I don’t do magazines,” Udé said ahead of dinner, flipping through the issue at the bar. “I don’t do fashion photography, it takes me a long time to do one picture; I was a painter before. It takes time to take pictures.” Udé, who is currently prepping a show at the MFA Houston for next year, was convinced by New York’s former creative director Jody Quon to take on the project.
The men’s style issue had been in the works at the magazine for some time, and was accelerated with the arrival of Hine this spring.
“Men’s style and men’s fashion is really interesting to a lot of us at the magazine and to Lindsay [Peoples, from The Cut] and me, and we’ve talked a lot about finding ways to cover it more,” Haskell said.
“One thing I like about the issue is that it goes from a very indie young hustler pounding the pavement, making 15 suits a year, all the way to Leo [Dell’Orco] at Armani. And I think that full spectrum of people dedicating their lives and careers to men’s style is really interesting right now journalistically,” he added. “So let’s just dive into all of that and not worry about existential questions about what a man is and just look at how style is being expressed and evolved.”
