The New Yorker is not organizationally part of Condé Nast. For brevity's sake, I use "Condé Nast" to mean Condé Nast magazines plus The New Yorker. Note also that this discussion does not apply equally to all Condé Nast magazines. Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New Yorker are by far the most profligate. Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, and House & Garden are less lavish. Other Condé Nast magazines are positively restrained. Glamour, which is wildly profitable, is famously tightfisted. According to a former assistant, staffers couldn't even bring dates to the Christmas party. And, I should add, there are plenty of people at every magazine who eschew high living.