When Suzy Menkes spoke with Fern Mallis during her “Fashion Icons” series just a few weeks ago, Mallis asked her if she planned on staying with the International Herald Tribune when it’s rebranded as the International New York Times this fall.
“Who knows?” was her glib response.
Well, not only will she be staying on, she’ll be getting an impressive new title.
Last week, after readers complained about a T cover featuring Julia Nobis–whom they felt was disturbingly skinny and young-looking–T EIC Deborah Needleman issued a response to New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan. In it, Needleman mentioned that she had “considered adding some fat to her with Photoshop, but decided that as it is her body, I’d let it be.”
This raised new questions about the New York Times‘ treatment of photography–didn’t the paper of record hold itself to a higher standard than to just Photoshop some fat into (or out of) a model with little more than a second thought?
Turns out it does–but fashion photography is a different story.
While we see T as more of a fashion magazine, many New York Times subscribers probably don’t. As people who look at images from fashion magazines and runways on a daily basis, we didn’t give this T cover featuring Julia Nobis in a swimsuit and leather jacket a second thought–at least not for any other reason than the impracticality of wearing a leather jacket over a swimsuit.
However, several readers–whose eyes are probably less accustomed than ours to seeing unrealistically thin people everywhere—complained about how shockingly thin and underage Nobis looked on the cover and in the accompanying editorial.
Deborah Needleman, T‘s EIC, however, disagrees.
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Hurricane Sandy paralyzed the East Coast and most of New York City over the last few days, causing massive destruction and shutting down pretty much everything. But not even Sandy could stop Bill Cunningham, the New York Times‘s intrepid octaginarian and original street style photog, from getting on his bike and seeking out stylish ladies and gents.
Since new T EIC Deborah Needleman has only been at her new job for all of three days, she hasn’t really been divulging much about her plans for the magazine to the press yet.
However, WWD has learned from “sources” that she definitely has some plans–and demands. In fact, the trade alleges that Needleman “started negotiating with the Times while Singer was still holding court on the sixth floor.”
After last month’s infamous war-of-words with Oscar de la Renta (in which they called each other hotdogs and hamburgers), Cathy Horyn has gotten herself into another scrap–and this time it’s with Saint Laurent’s Hedi Slimane.
During Slimane’s debut RTW show for Saint Laurent yesterday, many (including us) couldn’t help but notice Horyn’s absence. Today, a rep confirmed to us that the NY Times critic had indeed not been invited. But why? Though Saint Laurent declined to give a reason, Horyn has an idea. And it has to do with Raf Simons.
In a move that should surprise no one, Deborah Needleman has replaced Sally Singer at the helm of T: The New York Times Magazine, the Times announced today.
As you probably know if you live in NYC (those posters are everywhere), a new Proenza Schouler store just opened up on Madison Ave. And luckily for us, Times reporter Alexandra Jacobs took an undercover tour of the new space and wrote about it for the paper’s often-hilarious, rarely kind Critical Shopper feature.
This is a good one, and includes Star Trek references and kitten mentions. So, we’ve decided to condense it into a list of the article’s funniest digs, many of which aren’t even directed towards Jack, Lazaro, or the store itself:
In what may be this week’s juciest, most dramatic piece of news, Oscar de la Renta wrote an open letter responding to Horyn’s harsh criticism of him and it was printed in today’s WWD.
Update: Horyn has responded.
At some point “street style” referred to stylish people wearing their own clothes that they bought and put together in outfits themselves and then just went about their business. Now, there are stylists, PRs, agents, staged shoots, and more factors coming together to take the authenticity out of street style, especially during fashion week.
How soon before they just cut the charade of spontaneity and set up an actual red carpet in front of the tents?
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