Details (magazine)

Details (stylized in all caps) was an American monthly men's magazine that was published by Condé Nast, founded in 1982 by Annie Flanders. Though primarily a magazine devoted to fashion and lifestyle, Details also featured reports on relevant social and political issues. In November 2015 Condé Nast announced that the magazine would cease publication with the issue of December 2015/January 2016.

In 1982, Details was launched, as a downtown culture magazine, by Annie Flanders, a former fashion editor, at a meeting of former employees of the newly defunct SoHo Weekly News, including Ronnie Cooke, Stephen Saban, Lesley Vinson, Megan Haungs and Bill Cunningham.

The Los Angeles Times detailed how the magazine changed hands a number of times in the years thereafter:

"In 1984, to save the publication from bankruptcy, Flanders sold a controlling interest for $300,000 to a British publisher. He in turn unloaded it in mid-1987 on a New York entrepreneur."

Alan Patricof bought the magazine in 1988. Condé Nast bought the magazine a year later for $2 million.

In 1988, Anna Wintour hired James Truman as features editor of American Vogue. By 1990, S. I. Newhouse Jr. moved James Truman to editor of Details.

In 1990, Flanders left the magazine (June 1982 to November 1989).

From 1990 to 1999, a sex column by Anka Radakovich ran in the magazine.