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Noah Johnson, the new editor of Highsnobiety, wants to bring the glossy down to earth.
By Quinn Moreland
“The most important editorial principle that I’ve been pushing is authenticity, as trite as that sounds,” said Noah Johnson, sitting at a small round table in a corner office partially lined with lawyerly dark wood paneling.
It was a September afternoon at the Manhattan headquarters of Highsnobiety, the style publication where Mr. Johnson is the editor in chief. He was dressed in a white T-shirt, denim zip-up jacket and Hobbit-like leather shoes. Two neon tennis rackets poked out of a L.L. Bean tote at his feet.
