It is up to the 13th editor in Esquire’s history to decide if this is a crisis or an opportunity. The New Esquire Man“It felt like Armageddon,” Mr. Fielden said, recalling the fire that ripped through his modernist Connecticut home in 2010. While he aims to do the inverse at Esquire, and bring in more female readers, Mr. Fielden nevertheless has a legacy to protect at Esquire. A Magazine Built on MythsWhen Esquire debuted from its Chicago headquarters in 1933, it was a magazine with a mandate. But as a result, for nearly 50 years, every new Esquire editor — there were six in the 1970s alone — assumed the job with an implicit mandate, to bring it back to its glory years.

Source: New York Times February 04, 2017 10:41 UTC