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> At 48, Dan Peres is already an old hand at being a former magazine editor. Condé Nast shut down Details, the men’s glossy that he had been editor of for 15 years, in 2015

Wait, if my math is correct he became editor at 28. Was that common at the time? (circa 2000)

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Well those magazines (Details and similarly GQ) try to project a young-and-successful image. They want the readers to think that's the target audience, or the real audience. It ties into interviewing young and successful artists, athletes...sometimes entrepreneurs too. It's aspirational.

So I could totally see them promoting a 28-year-old man to editor and thereby manufacture a bit of stardom to help with their image.

The late 90s and early 2000s were a weird time in America.