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The Sartorialist Calls Photo Subject “Bigger, Curvier” and “Sturdy”; Prompts Commenter Outrage

The Sartorialist‘s Scott Schuman posted two photos of Milanese fashion blogger Angelica Ardasheva on his site yesterday (thanks to Jezebel for identifying her and her blog). Schuman doesn’t usually post commentary with his images–they speak for themselves. But on this entry he offered these thoughts:

I saw this young lady in Milan several times this past season. She is one of the crop of new bloggers. I loved that she’s a bigger, curvier girl than most of the other bloggers who you see in the press and tend to represent the genre.

The subtle thing she achieves so successfully in these two looks is to complement the sturdy but beautiful shape of her legs with an equally strong shoe. A daintier shoe would be overpowered but these shoes create a beautiful harmony for the lower half of her body.

Commenters seized on Schuman’s descriptors, and 1148 of them have weighed in, most of them expressing outrage or disappointment, like this one:

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Rants

Isabella Blow Book War Rages On, Takes On Jezebel

The Isabella Blow book war just won’t quit. And the authors of the competing biographies–Tom Sykes, who cowrote Blow by Blow with Isabella’s widower Detmar, and Lauren Goldstein Crowe who wrote Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion–continue to use the fashion blogosphere to duke it out.

Crowe has spoken out again, though this time, instead of responding to Syke’s latest outrage, she’s taking issue with one of the sites covering the saga, lady blog Jezebel.

Seems Crowe didn’t like Jenna Sauers’ implication, as she recapped the back-and-forth on Jezebel, that the authors were simply drumming up publicity at Isabella Blow’s expense. “Far be it from us mere bloggers to act like some kind of voice of morality here, but a talented and troubled woman died and all these people can think about is their petty little publicity-chasing book-selling feud?” Sauers wrote.

So Crowe sent a response to us and Racked, titled, “A Letter to Jezebel.” Here it is, in full:

How strange of you to recall, step-by-step, the grisly tale between myself and Tom Sykes (“Competing Isabella Blow Biographers Attack Each Other,” November, 11, 2010) but when it comes to my completely coherent clarification to decide to “act like some voice of morality” and point out that “a trouble woman died,” and accuse us both of pandering for publicity’s sake.

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Chanel’s Silver Balls, Lily’s Knits & Leigh’s Vodka Party

Score: So you’re not one of the select few playing Bocce ball in the south of France with Karl Lagerfeld, Pacey, and Vanessa Paradis, as least Garance is there to snap pretty pictures of the pretty people. {Garance} True Story: Lily Cole’s the face of a new knitwear line, but more importantly, there is an [...]

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Ellen Von Unwerth Shows in Paris & Male Mannequins Go On the Baby Food Diet

A Century Strong: RIP Lena Horne. The singer and actress passed away last night. She was 92. {Jezebel} Say Cheese: Le Bon Marche’s launching an Ellen Von Unwerth exhibition, “Ellen’Cinéma,” in Paris this week. It includes shots of Marion Cotillard, Diane Kruger, and Monica Bellucci. So if you’re on your way to Cannes, make a [...]

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Is This Christian Louboutin’s First Ad Campaign?

These images of a single Louboutin floating through Alice in Wonderland-like space have surfaced. We’ve never seen a Christian Louboutin ad before—the beloved shoe designer doesn’t need them—it’s like of a sudden we woke up one morning and everyone’s soles were red. But these images must’ve been produced for advertising purposes; no other product is [...]

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People Are Talking

Will There Be Consequences for ‘Horndog’ Terry Richardson?

Last week’s comments from Danish model Rie Rasmussen have caused a deluge of anti-Terry Richardson stories. At the end of Paris fashion week, she said, “He takes girls who are young, manipulates them to take their clothes off and takes pictures of them they will be ashamed of.” A few days later, model Jamie Peck [...]

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Terry Loves the Olsens, Chris Brown Continues Being Awful & Jezebel’s Still Surprised About Photoshop

A Photographer’s Life: If you’re not keeping up with Terry, he’s with the Olsens today and captured a near perfect Cat McNeil the day before yesterday. {Terry’sWorld} Photo Call: Jezebel’s played sleuth and placed Ashton Kutcher’s Twit Pic of his wife next to Helena Rubenstein’s final campaign image and duh, it’s been Photoshopped. Also duh, [...]

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

Horse Meat:Remember all those times Karl Lagerfeld said he hated fat people and that no one should have to look at fat people and that he lost all that weight eating horse meat and diet coke so he wouldn’t be fat anymore and that he thought Heidi Klum was heavy? Well Stephen Gan must be [...]

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

She’s Back Y’all: Gemma Ward’s not going anywhere, thank god. She’s just taking a mini-break from modeling. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if she got back into it without losing those twenty pounds? {Fashionologie} Blurry Blogging: An even deeper look into the world of fashion blogging. Do you embrace the industry? Stay away from it? Can [...]

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

Be the Last Intern: Magnus Berger and Tenzin Wild’s The Last Magazine needs design and production interns. You need experience and three to five days free to work. {Starworks} Break It Down: Peter Brant spends $500,000 a month on his polo ponies. He doesn’t understand why his soon to be ex, Stephanie Seymour, spends $50,000 [...]

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Beauty

Kate Gets Glam

Jezebel has a couple shots of Kate Hudson from the latest issue of Elle UK, coming out later this week. First, let me just say I barely recognized her, but I don’t mean that in an insulting way. She looks amazing, but not really all that much like the girl spotted night after night watching [...]

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

Add A Slash: As in model/actress. Next up is Agyness who’s shooting a short film with the guy who plays the ADA on Law & Order. Also we now have “Celebrity Skin” running through our heads, which is not a bad thing at all. {Page Six} Is Adidas the New Target: They’ve had Jeremy Scott [...]

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