The most important editorial principle that I’ve been pushing is authenticity, as trite as that sounds,” said Noah Johnson, sitting at a small round table in a corner office partially lined with lawyerly dark wood paneling.
It was a September afternoon at the Manhattan headquarters of Highsnobiety, the style publication where Mr. Johnson is the editor in chief. He was dressed in a white T-shirt, denim zip-up jacket and Hobbit-like leather shoes. Two neon tennis rackets poked out of a L.L. Bean tote at his feet.