 How would one best describe the lifestyle discussed in the article?
Filling out the room are other editors, publicists, and writers from these magazines and GQ and House & Garden and so on. The expense-account lunch is a hallowed journalistic tradition. About the interior-decorating costs for the fashion-magazine editor who likes to have her office photographs rearranged every few months. About the Vogue editor who has furnished her summer house from items purchased for fashion shoots--beautiful furniture, designer pillows, coffee-table books. And the nature of the subject makes it hard to separate apocrypha from the truth. But every example of excess cited here was told to me by at least one source (and usually more than one) in a position to know.
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