ABOUT
Sophie Yun Mancini is a New York-based writer, editor, and creative consultant.
Currently, she is the Deputy Editor of Dossier Magazine, the critically acclaimed early 2000s journal she helped relaunch in 2024 as a luxury travel and culture publication. Before that, she helped relaunch Departures Magazine under the New York Times’ creative agency, where she then became the food editor. Following that, she helmed editorial at travel company Prior as its managing editor.
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On assignment, she has traveled by air, land, and lake to profile Argentine chef Francis Mallmann on his island in Patagonia, interviewed architect Bjarke Ingels on saving Manhattan from flooding, fashion designer Gabriela Hearst as creative director of Chloé, chef Daniel Humm when he first turned Eleven Madison Park plant-based, nightlife legend Ian Schrager in a return to Studio 54, and director Steven Soderbergh on his life in spirits. She’s reported on Seoul’s art scene, spent a week in Copenhagen with the Noma team, and explored the jungles of Belize guided by the philosophies Francis Ford Coppola gave her.
Her work has appeared in Air Mail, Condé Nast Traveler, Elle, Family Style, Monocle, Vogue, W Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. She's been a creative consultant on book and brand projects for clients such as Eleven Madison Park and Mattos Hospitality, as well as on design and curation projects for clients like her favorite vintage group, Good’s Vintage.
She’s commissioned and shaped hundreds of stories — editing best-selling authors to burgeoning writers, created and ran columns across all facets of culture, and managed a network of over 40 writers at once.