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1 week ago | puck.news | Dylan Byers

Earlier this year, on the occasion of the publication of Graydon Carter’s much-celebrated codex vitae, When the Going Was Good, one of his former staff writers, Bryan Burrough, published his own, less rose-tinted reminiscence of Vanity Fair’s halcyon days in the pages of The Yale Review.

1 week ago | puck.news | Lauren Sherman

Line Sheet, the ultimate fashion industry bible, offers daily intel from Lauren Sherman, Rachel Strugatz, and Sarah Shapiro on every aspect of the business and its biggest players.

1 week ago | puck.news | Lauren Sherman

Everything in life revolves around real estate, but especially in the fashion world, where retail is still very much at the center of the experience. But what’s a store for, these days? As more shoppers use retail for browsing, mostly, and their trips to the store decrease, brands have had to establish a new set of performance metrics. Sales-per-square-foot still matters, obviously, but can’t be measured the same way when so many customers are buying online.

1 week ago | puck.news | John Ourand

Peacock, in many ways, has become a fascinating totem of legacy media’s journey into the streaming age. Launched in the summer of 2020, NBCU appeared keen to make a Goldilocks gamble in the streaming wars. Perhaps befitting its heritage as a cable company and cable systems provider, Peacock defied the pure-play logic of the day and entered the world as an AVOD system, leaning into the parentco’s strength in the advertising industry.

1 week ago | puck.news | Lauren Sherman

Ryan Murphy, who built his television empire by depicting various forms of depravity—both imagined and ripped from the headlines—has endured plenty of controversies. But there is something downright chilling about the way the public has reacted to the early images of actress Sarah Pidgeon in character as Carolyn Bessette–Kennedy, whose life and relationship with John F.