Patrick McCarthy, who spent his entire glamorous reporting and editing career at the Fairchild media company — known for the fashion industry bible Women’s Wear Daily and W magazine — and who succeeded his mentor, John Fairchild, as its chairman and editorial director, died on Sunday in Manhattan. Impeccably dressed in Armani suits, Mr. McCarthy successfully led the company for 13 years without being as famously irascible and capricious as Mr. Fairchild, whose family had founded the business. Where Mr. Fairchild had feuded with designers, Mr. McCarthy was calmer. But he shared his patron’s competitive fire — especially if WWD did not get a story first. “I will kill for a story, and if I don’t have it, I will get angry,” Mr. McCarthy said in a profile of him in New York magazine in 1997.

Source: New York Times February 28, 2019 23:15 UTC