Latest Fashion Emissary The Fountain of Youth

  Style.com editor and journalist party Darrell Hartman surrounds the city and sometimes the world in the course of their duties. In a regular column he reports on issues, they may be at any given time, the stirring of the social whole.

"Yes, the young man was premature," is a series of Dorian Gray. "He gathered his harvest while it is still in the spring."

I doubt that I am the first person to Dorian Grinspan, the thought of the story of Oscar Wilde on the precious youth. Dorian is real. The 20-year-old founder and editor of the magazine out control, sowed the seeds early and take some of the biggest factors in the fashion world for knowledge.

Grinspan was born in Paris and came to the United States to study at Yale. But while the previous generation was elected must wait for graduation before entering the world Grinspan not the point. "I did not want to come [to the U.S.] to do a magazine. Did I come at Yale and I was really, really boring," he said in Women's Wear Daily. [Full disclosure: This reporter spent four years at Yale, and did not find it boring.] Grinspan start his senior year in the fall with a major in American studies, but it has recently taken an apartment in New York, and says with a certain Franco -esque calibration schedule is for three days a week in New Haven.

Youth today! Grinspan is already a favorite of the industry. WWD is just one of many publications him come back and anointing and its Biennale is already by the likes of Colette and the opening ceremony, and the second question support, started Grinspan last week, offers the kind of top-shelf contributors, including many start-ups dream. Among the photographic credits and theme of profiles Larry Clark, Ryan McGinley and Olivier Theyskens. These are worth bragging receive, even if Grinspan is modest, or at least PR-savvy enough not to do. "It's really funny how these people are available and how much they want to help," he said at the launch party last week, a five story Uptown Store. (Your fashion style is, literally, as repped by DNA arent reason, but it certainly can not hurt). Gus Van Sant, he added, was "really interested in, and we almost pulled something", but the timing did not work.

Grinspan has many influential supporters, including other publishers. "Stephen Gan was incredible for me," he said. And after a meeting with Stefano Tonchi at a party in Cannes last year, appeared in W Grinspan this spring. In that case, he said, it will be written for the magazine's website. Quick work. For a moment Grinspan has to pay a fee, as an intern for Carine Roitfeld. Among the people I met while working there was the photographer Michael Avedon, who shot a story for the new issue. (Avedon is only a year older than Grinspan and grandson of Richard.)

Grinspan is good and has a tendency to do in polite society. Cynthia Rowley, who organized an after-party of sorts for the magazine to his shop-cum-pastry, curious, do not remember exactly how they met for the first time. She was pretty sure her boyfriend in the gallery of her husband was interned. In any case, Rowley said she had come to know through "Children Brant."

How has Grinspan fact, in an industry with fewer anchor points for young talents? "I do not believe it. Secret me I feel that everything is so complicated," he said. When pressed, he added: "As long as my mother and my father have a lot of connections to fashion, I suppose." His mother, a graphic artist, interested in clothes and style early. His father, a lawyer, worked "for a long time" with BCBG. And it is her godmother, chief editor number Babette Djian. "It was great," admits Grinspan. "We are going to the fashion shows together when we both have an invitation, but I would never call and say." Please take me to Jean Paul Gaultier 'This is not what I want to be our relationship! ".

When to keep things as they are, the occasional invitation is missing not be a problem. And why should not they? Grinspan has a way about him, is evident in the way he politely escorted Clark up the stairs to the party Rowley and posed with him for pictures. Clark, as Rowley, do not remember how he had Grinspan and began to speak, but he remembers a meeting Grinspan to face. "He is very enthusiastic but not pushy at all, just a nice young man," he said. And one more to make a splash than any other.