The New York Observer » Dan Peres http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:18:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Three Editors Depart Details, The Fix Picks Up One Forget how many trend pieces it takes to make a genre: how many staff departures does it take to make an exodus? Details entertainment editor David Walters resigned late last week to take a job at The Daily, according to a Conde Nast source. Mr. Walters, formerly of GQ, is the third high-level departure Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/10/3-editors-depart-details-the-fix-picks-up-one/ Details Cancels Garden Party; ‘We’re Late Night!’ Says Publisher WWD reports today that Details has replaced its annual garden party at the Bulgari hotel in Milan for Men's fashion week with something more modest: two late-night parties.

"[The Bulgari garden party] just didn't feel right for the brand," publisher Bill Wackermann told WWD.

"Details isn't prime time ... we're late night," he said.

The events will Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/media/bill-wackermann-takes-detials-magazine-late-night Lehman Alone: Vanity Fair‘s Vicky Wards Off Well-Wishers With Formidable Frock Old media overtook the Four Seasons restaurant on Wednesday, April 6, celebrating the release of Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward's book The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, wherein the Cambridge-bred beauty, who recently split from her husband, Matthew Doull, chronicles the demise of the ill-fated investment Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/daily-transom/lehman-alone-vanity-fairs-vicky-wards-well-wishers-formidable-frock Hors D’Oeuvres in the Devil’s Den On an unseasonably warm April evening at the Four Seasons restaurant—not to be confused with the hotel five blocks north—a bastion of old media congregated to celebrate the release of Vicky Ward's debut novel, The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers. In her revealing roman à clef, the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/daily-transom/hors-doeuvres-devils-den Details Answers the Existential Questions At 9 p.m. on March 1, under a full moon at the hippest bar in town, the Boom Boom Room at the Standard Hotel, Dan Peres and Bill Wackermann embraced. The editor and publisher of Details were celebrating what they were calling its 10th anniversary (even though it wasn’t). The room was packed. There was Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/media/details-answers-existential-questions More Than Fashionably Late, Condé Nast Hits the Internet On Monday, Oct. 26, Daniel Peres, the chummy 38-year-old editor in chief of Details, was standing in his carpeted office on the eighth floor of Condé Nast’s 42nd Street tower, cupping his hands around his eyes and squinting through his wall-size window.

“We were always looking in, you know, watching this party happen,” he told Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/more-fashionably-late-conde-nast-hits-internet Dan Peres: Details is Doing Fine; ‘I Wouldn’t Say Robust, But We’re Healthy’ Dan Peres stepped to the podium at the Columbia Journalism School on Thursday night and said, “I’ve had a difficult day, but I’m going to do my best to snap out of it."

The Details editor didn't offer too many, well, details, leading some to wonder if perhaps his magazine might be going the way Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/dan-peres-idetailsi-doing-fine-i-wouldnt-say-robust-were-healthy Details Now Eats Hot Wings, Digs Football Just when we weren’t looking, Details got all straight-acting on us. Surely editor-in-chief Dan Peres hasn’t exhausted Hollywood’s bottomless supply of fresh-faced actors. Or maybe he has.

On the cover of the book’s latest issue, which touts a “Power and Influence” theme, Britney Spears’ ex, Kevin Federline, isn’t photographed count-the-pores Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/i-details-i-now-eats-hot-wings-digs-football Was Affleck Misquoted? It’s All In the Details Details editor in chief Dan Peres was caught in a journalistic quandary on Tuesday afternoon, left wondering about misquotes—whether one was made by himself, or by one of his freelancers, Bart Blasengame.

In the letters section of the magazine’s December issue that hit newsstands Tuesday, Mr. Peres wrote in an editor’s note: “Our November Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/was-affleck-misquoted-it-s-all-details Details Affleck Correction Appears Inaccurate Dan Peres, the editor-in-chief of Details magazine, wrote in an editor's note in the letters section in the December issue: "Our November issue's cover interview with Ben Affleck quoted him as saying, 'I've gone out and directed a movie and made it really fucking good,' about his movie Read More

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