Fashionista

Entry: Vintage, But Not My Own

posted by KLW

Oct 14, 2008 4:11PM

I don't think it's creepy, I just think it's kind of lame. Go out and live in your Chucks and they'll eventually look like that. And you probably feel ridiculous because you did actually pay for the look--those shoes only cost about $40 regular retail. You're right to feel phony. But since you paid $80 for them you better wear them until their natural life span.

Entry: Someone's Regretting Those 3 A.M. E-Mails To Einhorny Right About Now

posted by KLW

Oct 17, 2008 10:32AM

subpeoned--a Freudian slip befitting their new stature? Loves it.

Entry: Oct 27, 2008 @ 12:10pm

posted by KLW

Oct 27, 2008 12:18PM

Uhm, I would love it if you could point out an Eastern European model who *doesn't* fit the profile? No one is saying anything negative about Eastern Europeans, they're talking about a very tiny segment of the population who happen to come here and model and they ALL fit a certain physical type. I don't think the girls are being made fun of, any more than Spicher is calling Joan fat by saying her behind is ample. She's more curvy, they're all thin as rails--why is the blanket statement not okay? Models are skinny-minnies, period, full stop.

Entry: TheLookBook = Cheat Sheet = We Love It

posted by KLW

Oct 29, 2008 9:44AM

Ooh yay! Hardly comprehensive yet in any aspect, but this will be great if they really get it going!

Entry: Blind Item: Child Technicians Feeling The Squeeze

posted by KLW

Oct 31, 2008 2:58PM

@ #13--$12/hr may be good money in the Midwest, the going rate here in New York is more like $15. If that's what you're paying your babysitter, she probably hates you.

Related: the only reason to babysit for obnoxiously rich people is because they can afford to pay you more than average. Crazy rich people and their fucked-up kids are the absolute worst.

Entry: Blind Item: Child Technicians Feeling The Squeeze

posted by KLW

Oct 31, 2008 3:44PM

@ Anal_yst
My god, the naked photos and sex diaries and poorly hidden pornography I could tell you about. But I would never be irresponsible in a family's home or do anything to endanger the moral fiber of your children. Blackmail only endangers the adults.

Entry: Want to Dress Like Marilyn?

posted by KLW

Dec 05, 2008 9:22AM

Right, because there's been no size inflation at all between the 1950s-60s and now. I imagine a model or a celebrity will model these clothes, and it will be one of those girls they say is "curvy" or "voluptuous" but is actually just a size 4/6 with boobs--the same size Marilyn would be if she were alive today.

I think the whole idea is kind of tacky, but if it fails it won't be because Marilyn Monroe was a fat chick and there's no one else her size who anyone would want to look like. Come on now.

Entry: Advice To Our Hedge Fund Friends, Courtesy Of AQR

posted by KLW

Dec 12, 2008 2:52PM

@293-- The coolest people on the internet are the ones who complain that a website isn't discussing something after reading one article on an unrelated topic. There's been fully a dozen posts on Madoff in the last few days, and weeks if not months of coverage of changes in regulatory oversight. Since you're unemployed, you may want to spend your time reading back in the site a bit before you comment on anything else.

Entry: Advice To Our Hedge Fund Friends, Courtesy Of AQR

posted by KLW

Dec 12, 2008 3:27PM

We're sorry you were offended by all the gossip on a site that calls itself a "Wall Street tabloid." Be careful if you see a copy of Playboy, there might be naked ladies in there.

Entry: Advice To Our Hedge Fund Friends, Courtesy Of AQR

posted by KLW

Dec 12, 2008 4:23PM

@316--Oh, Amherst students...how I don't miss all of you taking yourself so seriously en masse :)

Love, a Moho

Entry: Advice To Our Hedge Fund Friends, Courtesy Of AQR

posted by KLW

Dec 12, 2008 5:03PM

Don't flatter yourselves; it's mostly just the novelty factor. If a giraffe were wandering around Vals, you'd turn and look too.

Entry: Smile Straight or Smile Crooked?

posted by KLW

Dec 16, 2008 4:26PM

Kristen and Keira, as it has been pointed out, generally smiled with their mouths closed or else so show-offy and wide open that you're too busy checking out their tonsils to see their teeth. "Chuck Bass" is sexy because of how he broods, not because of how he smiles. And all these people are incredible genetically blessed in other ways. Most of us have enough other minor imperfections that having our teeth fixed hardly leaves us cookie-cutter, supermodel perfect, no? But I guess it's easier to tell us to love a little gap in our teeth than it is to tell us to love the cellulite on our thighs and rock it out in some hot leather leggings.

Also, I underwent incredibly costly and painful dental implants as well as braces, and would do it all over again in a second. Given the choice between "generic" and "freakish gaping holes in the front of my mouth," generic is a better look for most people

Entry: Help With These Pants...

posted by KLW

Jan 03, 2009 6:36PM

Those look like something J. McLaughlin would have, or Lilly Pulitzer, but you're definitely not going to find anything like that at this time of year. You'll have to wait until they get their summer merchandise in to start looking.

Entry: Bernie Madoff, Unmemorable Frat Boy

posted by KLW

Jan 20, 2009 1:12PM

This article seemed equally concerned with Jay Salkin's cream cheese obsession as anything to do with Madoff, but if I know Jewish frat boys, the details of that are best left alone. Oh, and fuck ZBT, by the way; if ever there was a house I contemplated lighting on fire, it was yours.

Entry: How The Christ Will We Identify The Top 30 Traders Under The Age Of 30 Now?

posted by KLW

Feb 03, 2009 2:29PM

@44: If Flavors wasn't in my building, I would burn that place down. As it stands, of course, I continue to eat there constantly.

Entry: CNBC: "It's not my fault you're like, in love with me, or something!"

posted by KLW

Mar 06, 2009 2:24PM

@42, That's true of pretty much everyone I know--why would anyone want to go to Indiana unless they needed to? It's not like you're going to marvel at the natural beauty of the place.

Entry: Make Tim Geithner An Offer

posted by KLW

Mar 10, 2009 2:33PM

@7: This house is two blocks away from where I grew up, and is technically in the Unincorporated Area of Larchmont, which is part of Mamaroneck Town but not Mamaroneck Village or Larchmont Village. Do not pretend you understand Westchester zoning; my dad was on the zoning board for a decade and there are STILL things that don't make sense about it.

Entry: Make Tim Geithner An Offer

posted by KLW

Mar 10, 2009 3:55PM

@23: Come on, what did you think a girl from Westchester was going to say, honestly? I'm just here to meet your expectations, fulfill your fantasies, etc. And then cut your balls off in your sleep.

Entry: How is Conde Nast UK So Different?

posted by KLW

Mar 12, 2009 3:20PM

Not to nitpick, but just because no one in fashion reads Wired doesn't mean no one reads it. It's a great magazine, and numerically speaking has more readers than W, Details, and at least a few other Conde pubs, according to the US Conde Nast stats.

Since most of the fashion pubs already have international editions and most of the other lifestyle books have local equivalents, if Conde wants to expand in an (as you pointed out) already faltering economy, it makes perfect sense to do it with a successful book that caters to a less saturated market.