Tom Wolfe, from Richmond, Virginia, spurned academic life after receiving his Yale doctorate to become a reporter, ultimately working at the New York Herald Tribune. He originated New Journalism, a staccato-adjective-laden style that reinvented subordinate clauses when writing a feature for Esquire on custom cars and hot rods. This piece would go on to become the title essay in the collection The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. Jack Robinson photographed Wolfe in his office at the New York Herald Tribune for a “Vogue’s Own Boutique” feature published January 15, 1966. Wolfe is described as a “blazingly original dresser” who wore a pure white silk tweed summer suit one day in January “and it seemed to annoy people … to my delight.”