“Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the porkpie hats, you'll be hard-pressed to tell the years in which the pictures were taken.”

Canadian journalist and magazine editor

Graydon Carter is a Canadian journalist and magazine editor. Born in 1949, he is best known for leading Vanity Fair from 1992 to 2017 and for helping found the satirical magazine Spy in 1986. He co-founded Spy with Kurt Andersen and Thomas L. Phillips, Jr., and later co-launched the weekly newsletter Air Mail with Alessandra Stanley in 2019. His career has centered on long-form journalism, magazine culture, and a polished, media-savvy view of public life.