Jamie Wachtel
EDITOR’S LETTER
In a time when print is a challenging medium, I am thrilled TREATS! has so successfully made it to its 4th issue and one year anniversary. Newsstands and bookstores around the world have been selling out—there are even waiting lists in NYC and LA—and this
could quite well be the best issue yet. Over the past 4 issues we have grown, developed and realized a few things along the way. You
may notice the distinct lack of advertising in this issue along with the removal of the word “magazine” on the front cover. Our awardwinning publication has developed into much more than a magazine: the quality, editorial and photography along with the paper stock
feels more like a book, really—it just comes out 4 times a year.
The talent is always improving, too. When photographer Mark Seliger—Rolling Stone, GQ, Vanity Fair—told me he wanted to do a
cover shoot for TREATS!, I was ecstatic about what his creativity would bring to the magazine. As the chief photographer for Rolling
Stone for many years, Seliger has shot over 120 magazine covers—and we are thrilled to now be a part of that list. In this issue of
TREATS!, Seliger shot the sultry and beautiful model Sessilee Lopez. The result? A moody, sexy shoot, deep and rich, full of swagger
and edge, fashion and pose, noirish and stylish. We couldn’t be happier about having Seliger—and Sessilee—as part of TREATS!.
We also welcome another new creative force to TREATS!: Brett Ratner. Bringing his cinematic eye for imagery to the pages of
TREATS!, Ratner shot one of his heroes, legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, who is widely considered to be the greatest documentary filmmaker ever, as–well as the sun-splashed and glamorous “Amanda” shoot.
And, not to be outdone, in this issue we welcome a new art director to TREATS!, Dirk Barnett, a seasoned and innovative designer
who has artfully blended the foundation of timelessness that grounds TREATS! with a pop modernism that is at once bold, minimalist
and appealing. Welcome, Dirk.
Some of favorite regulars are back, too. Paris-based photographer David Bellemere once again brings his gauzy sensuality to our
pages in “Anthea”; Herring & Herring will cool you off with their “Water Girls” shoot; and Tony Duran is back with his singular take on
beauty, fashion and sensual fantasy in “Modern Artisans.”
This issue is also filled with a lot “greatness’s”: TREATS! contributor Sarah Hassan takes a look back at the “greatest nightclub ever,”
NYC’s Stork Club. From 1929 until the mid-60s, the swank supper club hosted the most notorious, lionized, feared, and syndicated
patrons ever assembled to dine, drink and fight in fashionable excess. How did a poor midwestern rumrunner who grew up during The
Great Depression come to the Big Apple and create the most exclusive café society hot spot that ever existed? Hassan leaves no
stone—or cocktail—unturned.
In another “greatest,” fashion writer and TREATS! contributor, Kelly Lee