This month, out of a field of more than 800 magazines premiering this year, Vault was celebrated as one of the 16 Hottest Launches by Min Online, “Another upscale magazine—a common theme of the hot magazines coming to the marketplace—came out of the vault. A chic devotional to art, etiquette and the world of being social, Vault is [...]

On any given weekday, half the patrons are billionaires. This is the rarefied arena over which Julian Niccolini—the favorite host of America’s plutocracy—presides. As co-owner and master of ceremonies of New York’s venerable Four Seasons restaurant, Niccolini acts as the rollicking, sometimes whimsical choreographer of this luncheon-as-theater, with many of the world’s most powerful people [...]

Legendary photographer Roxanne Lowit lent her lens to the festivities surrounding Vault magazine’s launch at The Villa by Barton G. As revelers mixed and caroused, Lowit roamed the crowd, shooting the most beautiful, the most stylish and the most decadent. Then, on a screen high above, these new shots flashed almost instantaneously, interspersed with some [...]