1 I was driving to work one day, and for the life of me I don’t know why, but I got this idea: What if an older person took a job as an intern? It just made me laugh. I actually had the idea when we were shooting It’s Complicated. In The Intern, De Niro plays a 70-year-old widower who goes to work as a lowly intern at a fashion website run by a 30-ish Anne Hathaway. We sat down with Meyers at her home and again at the Farmshop in the Brentwood Country Mart (which looks a lot like the place where Meryl Streep taught Steve Martin to make a chocolate croissant in It’s Complicated) for a conversation about what it’s like, and what it means, to occupy such a singular position in Hollywood at such a complicated moment. But it is as radical in its insistent focus on the female experience as ever. In Meyers’s new movie, The Intern, out September 25, the protagonist is younger (played by Anne Hathaway) and her foil is older (Robert De Niro), and it’s not a love story. Nancy Meyers’s success is striking not just because she is a rare woman director, but because she has produced a stream of hits about a subject Hollywood says no one is interested in: women in late middle age, discussing how they feel. It’s surrounded by lavender and olive trees and filled with comfortable chairs, well-loved books, and vases of fresh flowers. In addition, she helped launch the fashion supplement Look, which ceased publication after three issues.The most successful female writer and director in Hollywood lives in a pretty stone house straight out of one of her own films. As for Powell, during her tenure, the magazine significantly increased its fashion coverage both in print and online. She’s also written for Harper’s Bazaar and Glamour. As a contributing editor, Larocca wrote profiles on personalities such as Marc Jacobs, Isabella Blow, Carine Roitfeld and Christian Lacroix, and kicked off the “Look Book” feature, which was spun into a book in 2007. Her very experience as a journalist makes her the ideal person to lead our fashion coverage in this new era.” (This has meant fewer traditional fashion shoots of late.) In addition to being the face (and voice) of New York in all scenes and matters fashion-related, Larocca will oversee the biannual fashion issues, the biweekly Fashionables trend shoots, and contribute regularly to ’s fashion blog, The Cut.

She is fashion-fluent but also speaks the language of a generalist. “Amy is as gifted a writer about fashion as exists anywhere, and she is also a writer who thinks like an editor. “As appointments go, this was kind of a no-brainer,” said New York editor in chief Adam Moss. A longtime contributing editor at the weekly, Larocca succeeds Harriet Mays Powell, who is stepping down after a six-year run to “develop a multimedia project,” according to the magazine. New York has a new fashion director - Amy Larocca.

New York Look Book by Amy Larocca