• 10 Aug 2007 at 11:17 AM
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Cory Kennedy and the Style Paradox

By Faran Krentcil

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Internet homecoming queen Cory Kennedy snags this month’s cover of Jalouse, but her photo poses an odd question:
Are there some people who look better dressed down?
Though Cory’s beauty is hotly debated on various blogs, we’ve always thought she was stunning – in part due to her shards of makeup, slivers of designer accessories, and shreds of denim that she pulls into an outfit.
Add professional hair, makeup, and wardrobe into the mix, and Cory just looks like another gorgeous girl.
But it’s the personality she infuses into her runny eyeliner and scorched skin that makes it really magical.
Take that away, and the cover line – which translates into, “Who Knows Cory Kennedy?” – means something totally different – in that photo, we didn’t recognize her at all.

  • she isn't perfect. she isn't beautiful (and doesn't fake it like so many others who slather on gallons of shitty makeup everyday). and she doesn't wear matchy matchy outfits. but so what? she has personal style that people enjoy and emulate. i completely agree that she looks better without all that makeup and wardrobe. she has one of the most interesting faces without a thing on it.
  • Laughing
    Hilarious. Dress like a down trodden piece of shit in "designer" pieces, be photograph by the ever so annoying and creepy cobrasnake and you're ~omg~ a fashion icon. Please. I've seen homeless people more sass than this girl. & like someone else said this must be a psychotic synapses a la jerry lewis phase for the pretentious french fashionistas. they turn there noses at our fashion rags yet put the stupidest on jalouse. or is it a joke we're unaware of?
    i also am confused by the praise she gets as if she's the hipster Gloria Steinam for some yet unknown and bizzare cause. is brushing your hair overrated? is "being yourself" such a new and monumental concept? is she giving empowerment to the girls of America who are not attractive? ....
  • lily
    i think she is gorgeous and i love the message she sends out like you think faran, loved the post :)
  • Anonymous
    mark isn't that much older than her.
  • Ballerina
    I've always thought she was beautiful. and i like the fact that she "made" something from the cobrasnake photos.
    like a jalouse cover, I like Jalouse, it's nice that they put her on the cover. It would have been nice if she got the rolling stone cover too.
  • Kara
    Not fair! She gets to have her own column in a national magazine (Nylon), she gets to be on the cover of freakin JALOUSE and why? Because she's a scenester party girl in LA who happened to have a much older boyfriend with a camera and a website? I mean, I get the appeal kind of and her blog is sometimes fun to read but it's so obnoxious. I went to school for this and don't have a job and she's a teenager who got lucky. It sucks!
    I do read her blog and look at her pictures though. :sigh:
  • Anonymous
    i do like her hair, and her jeremy scott collection (except when she wears it at the same time as mark...)
  • gigi
    Someone else I've always thought looked way better dressed down is Sienna Miller.
  • fiona
    Yeah, I hate to be a curmudgeon here, but this girl is not "gorgeous." Even irrespective of the crazy outfits and 3 day old eyeliner and unbrushed hair, which are off-putting by themselves, she is just not a particularly pretty girl. She's cute at best.
  • gerald
    perfect response faran!
  • Anonymous
    seriously bitches whats with the faran backlash - i totally agree with comments objecting to or questioning ideas in a post, but if you are just going to say "faran sucks", stop reading her blog! geeezzz-us
  • There's more than one picture of me and Cory on MySpace? Ooh, where?
    :)
    I don't want to be Cory, her blog doesn't have cool collages.
    But I do appreciate the idea she represents - that not every girl needs to look like Gemma to be a style icon, a most-invited, or a beauty.
    She's also a darling of a person, but if you don't like the post, we have at least 10 others today for you to read - I'm hardly subjecting you to anything (except, apparently, the opportunity to insult me).
  • fashionablycontrived
    Faran why are there pictures of you with Cory on myspace? Its obvious you wish you could be this girl by why subject everyone else to it?
  • oh man, shes on the cover of Jalouse? How did that happen, that magazine is generally awesome. guess I wont be buying it for a while...
    I still don't understand why they keep trying to sell her style to anyone above the age of 13. if she was on the cover of seventeen thatd be one thing, but what self-respecting 20something wants to take their fashion cues from some precocious brat that parties too much?
    seriously.
  • Anonymous
    Eh, I'm not a huge fan, but cut the kid a break. She's just a high school kid, it's the web and mags that made her an "it" girl.
  • Anonymous
    ugh sorry but her style is putting ugly, random shit together in a drug haze. people only attribute that as style because she's on the cbrasnake, which is only because shes smart enough to know who to sleep with. it's kind of sad if grown women actually look up to a loser, going-nowhere teen with no reason for her notoriety.
  • nha
    street style is such a cliche now. every other hipster looks exactly the same in too tight jeans, some combination of ugly top/jacket/hat/armcuffs etc, and converses. whereas it actually takes an eye to look polished and presentable
  • sara
    i don't mind cory, but i most definitely wouldn't put her in the "gorgeous girl" category. yes, she has street style and quirkiness down, but she's just cute.
  • Rebe
    This must be one of those Jerry Lewis style taste missteps the French have from time to time. Cuz Cory Kennedy is a joke.
  • nha
    people who appear in need a good scrub down/facial peel are NOT fashion/beauty icons, give me a fucking break. she looks like a meth addict
  • You've gotta be kiddin me with this crap?!?
  • Puercotrou
    Who cares about Cory Kennedy? I'm beyond taking fashion cues from a zitty, overprivileged teenager.
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