Graydon Carter
Graydon Carter
Edward Graydon Carteris a Canadian-born American journalist and has served as the editor of Vanity Fair since 1992. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips, the satirical monthly magazine Spy in 1986...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 July 1949
CountryUnited States of America
fashion children later-in-life
Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them.
regret men thinking
I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.
age
Whatever age we are is the age we’ve always been.
notebook memories taken
Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need. The thing is, all that time you spend logging and then curating the quotidian aspects of your daily life is time taken away from actually doing things.
editors issues interesting
There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month.
trying stuff looks
I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between,
numbers issues hypocrisy
Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of -pick a number- 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.
kids four minutes
Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.
growing-up crazy kids
To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.
photography vanity care
We really care about photography at Vanity Fair.
america fragile
Everything I love about America is fragile.
mother school light
You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.
new-york fun cities
Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.
past missing wish
There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.