Graydon Carter's power lists return in Air Mail 'Downtown.'
21-11-2022
By Aarti Rawat
Graydon Carter's power list returns.
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When the pantheon-grade editor ran Vanity Fair, his "Best Dressed," "Young Hollywood," and "New Establishment" lists were met with fanfare and provoked a swell party where those who didn't make it drowned their sorrows and those who did rub it in.
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Now he's started a "Downtown" list at Air Mail for a special issue. Celine sponsored the issue and co-hosted a party at the Odeon.
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The list includes architecture firm to the stars (well, Mary-Kate Olsen at least) Michael Bargo, New Yorker writer Doreen St Felix, Mike Crumpler of the Dimes Square substack (who says the Air Mail flack, "has never been photographed"),
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Zoe Beyer of A24, Anna Weyant, the artist dating and represented by Larry Gagosian, director Sean Price Williams, and stylist Haley Wollens, who "single-handedly
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Carter says his editor's letters "prove that, if you have the self-control to sift through the posers and stale expectations of the past, [downtown] is unerasable."