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Tuesday November 20th, 2012

Grace Coddington Will Answer All Your Burning Questions About Cats and Anna Wintour Today on Twitter
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Grace Coddington Will Answer All Your Burning Questions About Cats and Anna Wintour Today on Twitter

To promote her new memoirs, Grace Coddington will be taking over Vogue Magazine’s twitter (@voguemagazine) today from noon until 1 p.m. EST.

She’ll answer fans’ burning questions about cat psychics (yes she uses one), Vogue, her modeling career and maybe even Anna Wintour. (We assume Coddington’s assistant Stella Greenspan will be the one tweeting Coddington’s answers as Coddington, in her book, outs herself as a technophone who only reads her emails once they’re printed out.)

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Published at 9:45 AM

Monday November 12th, 2012

Decoding #Menswear: A Handy Guide To Understanding What the Hell Men’s Style Blogs Are Talking About
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Decoding #Menswear: A Handy Guide To Understanding What the Hell Men’s Style Blogs Are Talking About

From the increasingly well-documented street style scene outside of Pitti Uomo (it’s starting to rival the scene outside any major fashion week venue) to the number of nattily dressed gents we see walking down the street in NYC, there’s no question that dudes have been stepping it up in the personal style department.

There’s even a burgeoning menswear (that’s #menswear if you’re scrolling through Twitter or Tumblr) clique, comprised of editors at print publications like GQ and Complex as well as bloggers at sites like Four Pins and Selectism and Hypebeast. They are the arbiters of men’s style, speakers of the language of #menswear. Yes, they have their own language and we dont’ understand at all. Cop some jawns? That dude is sprezzy? Say what?

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Published at 6:23 PM

Wednesday November 7th, 2012

Monday October 29th, 2012

Central Saint Martins’ Fashion Historian Judith Watt on Her New Book Alexander McQueen: The Life and the Legacy
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Central Saint Martins’ Fashion Historian Judith Watt on Her New Book Alexander McQueen: The Life and the Legacy

There’s a lot of legend surrounding the work and life of Alexander “Lee” McQueen–this is the man who claimed to have written obscenities in the coats of Prince Charles, after all! (Total rumor, by the way.)

Alexander McQueen: The Life and the Legacy, out October 30, is more of an examination of McQueen’s entire body of work and the inspiration behind it than a biography. We caught up with the author, Judith Watt, Head of Fashion History at Central Saint Martins, to chat about what she learned about McQueen while writing the book and what she hopes people will learn about the man behind the legend.

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Published at 5:30 PM

Friday October 26th, 2012

We Talk Blogging Muumuus and No Bras With Sad Desk Salad‘s Jessica Grose
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We Talk Blogging Muumuus and No Bras With Sad Desk Salad‘s Jessica Grose

Full disclosure: Jessica Grose is one of my good friends. She’s also a fellow online writer and editor (formerly of Slate and Jezebel) whose first novel, Sad Desk Salad, was just published. It’s a fictionalized account of a young woman in her early 20s named Alex who blogs for a site kinda like Jezebel.

Most of Jess’s book is fiction. But I can tell you that the part about Alex’s “blogging muumuu” is true stuff. We had a chat about what we wear as workers of the internets. It ain’t pretty, especially since Jess is about to have her first child and “muumuu” has taken on whole meaning for her.

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Published at 5:31 PM

Monday October 22nd, 2012

Monday September 10th, 2012

Tavi Gevinson Launches Rookie Yearbook One
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Tavi Gevinson Launches Rookie Yearbook One

Like many other high-school students, Tavi Gevinson has been working on her yearbook. Unlike most however, it’s 352-pages and was launched at a bookstore with press and Lena Dunham in attendance.

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Published at 7:17 PM

Thursday August 30th, 2012