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Patrick Demarchelier Recalls the Days of Seventeen Magazine’s Private Jet

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 15:  Photographer Patrick Demarchelier attends the Calvin Klein Collection Spring 2012 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at 205 West 39th Street on September 15, 2011 in New York City.  (Photo by Rabbani Solimene/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week)

The photographer first visited New York with the intention of staying a few months, but wound up staying 35 years. “When I worked for Seventeen, they had a private jet,” he recalls to Cathy Horyn. “When I was working in France, we had a little car, all freezing, in winter. Suddenly, I go to America and we have a private jet, and I think, That’s it! Amazing, no?”

Photo: Rabbani Solimene/Getty Images