Results tagged “T Magazine” (8)

Quote of the Day

“Look at the shoes that we wear on a daily basis! I think one of the reasons that fashion editors and fashion people have reputations for being so mean is because their feet are killing them all the time. They’re just irritable because of that, even though they all swear up and down, “Manolos are really comfortable!” I don’t buy it. —T editor Alix Browne in Corduroy magazine.
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NY Times Hires Lily Cole

lily cole smirks.jpgRemember last month, when Agyness Deyn “starred” in a short video for The New York Times as a drugged-out goddess of love? Turns out it was the beginning of a trend.

This weekend, the Times posted their second video on T Magazine’s manically excellent website, and guess who was in it?

The original LC, Lily Cole.

She’s appearing as a little sister in the family drama T Takes, which also stars Kate Mara and Charlie Cox. The series is directed by Brody Baker, who has no IMDB profile but does appear on Supreme’s model blog for throwing Josh Hartnett a birthday party.

You can see the series trailer here, and Lily says eight words in it.

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Aggy’s First Movie

agyness deyn in golden axe.jpgAgyness Deyn was 2007’s Lower East Side Staple.

You couldn’t really spend a day below Houston and east of Broadway without spotting her platinum pixie head until she started dating the Stroke and spending more time in LA.

Then she said she was trying to break into movies and we figured she’d eventually land a “punky ex-girlfriend” or “strung out party chick” role but instead she’s opted for the artsy path which, given her fashion predilections, isn’t so surprising.

Up first?

Erzulie, the goddess of love, in Gordon Hull’s T Magazine commissioned film, Dance of the Golden Axe. She blows fairy dust onto soldiers who chop down a forest of Christmas trees.

Next stop, romantic comedy?

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Quote of the Day

“For fall, the most perverse thing you can wear might actually be a white shirt. But like in any good Catholic tale there is no pleasure without punishment. Were all of those heart shaped holes at C.D.G. for love or were they for sex?” - Stefano Tonchi, Editor of T: Style in The Moment.
Fashion Is Fun

Ode to Daphne Merkin

heels stomping.jpgI didn’t discover Daphne Merkin until this great article in T:Style a couple years ago.


It was about the idea of the “jolie laide” and it became the basis of my own senior thesis on the idea of beauty.

Ever since then, I’ve read everything of hers that I can get my hands on, but what I’m always most impressed by are her articles for T - always sharp, always reasonable and always about fashion.

I almost laughed myself silly when she contextualized lip gloss using Sontag’s “Notes On Camp,” and now I am again totally tickled by her newest T story, “Heel, Girl!” an essay that compares high-heeled shoes with men known to her as “heels” and that reveals a lot about Daphne herself.

I’m pretty sure that was a story idea of Carrie’s on Sex and the City when she started working at Vogue, and yet, Daphne makes me smile over an idea that once made me smirk.

I actually get excited whenever I feel the heft of an extra magazine in my Sunday Times and I go out to buy a latte companion after I’ve made sure that Daphne’s words are included.

Never let this writer go, T. She practically makes every issue.

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Whitney Ages Out of Teen Vogue?

Whitney Teen Vogue Cover.jpgThere’s been some talk of Whitney leaving The Hills, and her recent interview with T’s The Moment may have just confirmed it.


T’s Online Editor Jonathan Paul comes right out and asks Whitney if she’s getting “phased out” of the show. Whitney responds that it’s just a rumor, saying she’s “still going to be continuing filming”.

BUT, after being asked “what’s next” for her at the magazine, she says, “I think Amy [Astley, Teen Vogue’s Editor-in-Chief] thinks [Lauren and I] are maybe getting too old for the magazine.”

Are Lauren and Whitney getting tossed from the show like a couple of just-turned-23-year-old models? We think it’s true, but not because they’re “old” (if 22 is too mature to work at Teen Vogue, then everyone but the interns couldn’t work there.)

Rumors say Teen Vogue might be trying to distance themselves from the show - regular shots of Lauren and friends drinking and hanging around questionable guys may not fit in with the lifestyle Teen Vogue maintains within its pages.

So what would The Hills be like without the fashion closet? We have no idea, we just know we probably wouldn’t watch it anymore (especially if this rumor happens to be true).

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“What I found offensive was the public editor’s Lego-man hair.”
a reader response to the T Magazine controversy, about 17-year-old Ali Michael vaguely flashing her breasts in a fashion spread.


The Times public editor, Clark Hoyt, proclaimed the spread “a mistake” in a recent column.