Deez Interview: David Haskell & Sam Hine on NY mag’s shiny, stylish near future.
Including the all-important Q: What will Sam wear on his first day at "New York"?
In case you haven’t heard: Amidst the change of guard at GQ, the magazine’s global fashion correspondent Sam Hine is taking on a new role at David Haskell’s New York magazine as senior men’s style editor. For certain circles of fashion, media, and like the city of New York itself, this was a development that provoked the kind of gasps I imagine regular people would use if news broke that LeBron James not only moving to a new team, but switching from basketball to like, tennis entirely.
The hire is definitely a coup for New York, yet it’s only one of two tantalizing developments happening over on Broad Street this week. Just yesterday, the news came out that James Murdoch is buying New York mag (along with Vox Media’s podcast network). Which is to say: magazine-making looks like it’s about to get a lot more interesting in Haskellville.
This morning, I had the chance to hop on a video call with both David and Sam to make sense of the current moment for the magazine, its future style coverage, Sam’s career (Fun fact: both David and Sam are serious company men — Sam started his career at GQ, and David has only ever worked at New York). You can read our conversation, lightly condensed and edited, below:
