Peter Kaplan, who edited The New York Observer for 15 years before becoming the editorial director of Fairchild Fashion Media, died Friday at the age of 59. The cause was the effects of lymphoma, WWD reported.
The longest-serving editor of the Observer, Kaplan was best known for his impact on the salmon-colored weekly paper, which he was credited with making a sharp-tongued chronicler of the city's power elites. Kaplan "splashed oversize illustrations on the cover, played up the headlines and laid bare the absurdities and humor in Manhattan's well-entrenched excesses," WWD wrote.
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