Former big city publisher Ron Galotti speaks out from Vermont in this New York Magazine article by Jay McInerney. And we wonder why advertising and media get a bad rap.
On the delicate relationship between himself, when he was publisher of Vogue, and the monthly’s fashion advertisers: “Okay, we’re having trouble with Giorgio Armani. Anna [Wintour, Vogue’s legendary editor] isn’t featuring enough of his [expletive] white blouses or something. Si [Newhouse, chairman of Conde Nast] says would I mind going over to Milan and kissing his ass, ’cause I probably know him as well as anybody. I reach into my pocket and pull out a tube of Chap Stick and I say, ‘I kiss so much ass I go through two of these a week. And the trouble is, I’m starting to like it.’ “
