In the latest “Savage Fashion” podcast episode, WWD’s chief content officer Jim Fallon and style director Alex Badia sat down with Michael Grynbaum to discuss his new book “Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast , the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America,” filmed at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York.

The stories from Grynbaum’s book personally resonated with both Fallon and Badia — WWD was owned by Condé Nast Publications from 1999 until 2014, when it was sold to its current parent company, Penske Media Corp.

Grynbaum said the idea for the book came about after he broke the news of Graydon Carter stepping down as editor in chief of Vanity Fair in 2017 and “the era of the celebrity editor was coming to a close.” Grynbaum always saw Condé Nast as more of a cultural institution, wit

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