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May 9, 2008 11:57 am
The door policy at Norwood is notoriously tight, but at last night’s launch party for new journal Dossier, the fashionably late had to consider themselves lucky if they made it up as far as the top step of the club’s well-groomed stoop. While management downstairs was busy turning the new arrivals away, upstairs the party was bustling—perhaps oddly so, given that Dossier is an upstart publication with the temerity to consider itself literate. “We wanted to create a magazine that solved the problem of airplane reading,” explained Dossier founder and editorial director Katherine Krause. “Like, what if instead of buying six different magazines—a few to look at, and a couple to read—there was just one that had everything you liked?” A tall order, but then Krause and her Dossier co-founder, Skye Parrott, are both industry vets, and for the debut issue of the biannual publication, they dug deep into their Rolodexes and pulled out contributions from the likes of Mario Batali, Nan Goldin, and Zac Posen, as well as numerous other names familiar from bylines and mastheads. Dossier’s appeal to contributors was a no-brainer, according to Parrott. “Just because you like fashion,” she said, talking over the din of the crowd, “that doesn’t mean you don’t like to read.” And apparently, just because you like to read, that doesn’t mean you don’t like to party.
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