“I think people would be surprised that all the product is produced from the five people who work here. I think that would be shocking—that the brand seems much bigger than the actual process is.” –Ashley Olsen on the size of The Row’s team in The New York Times.
NY Times
Wednesday August 26th, 2009
Monday August 24th, 2009
“[Cintra] Wilson told me she usually writes about ‘obscure stores that don’t exist outside of Manhattan,’ and she thinks of her audience as ’1,300 women in Connecticut and urban gay guys in Manhattan.” She said it was ‘kind of provincial of me [Wilson]‘ not to realize how big The Times was and how her audience Read more →
Thursday August 20th, 2009
Mid-Day Snack
Bend it Like the Other Beckham: Heidi Mount plays Posh Spice in this on-line only editorial from V. Though “chasing her kids all day,” really? {V} Not So Fast: Gen Art, the nonprofit organization known for supporting emerging designers (including at points Zac Posen, Sari Gueron and Phillip Lim) is having serious financial trouble. This Read more →
“What’s jarring is the marriage between the series and its new home. Project Runway is Barneys; Lifetime is Kohl’s. The cable outfit that broadcasts Army Wives and Reba reruns maintains an ethos that says, ‘Viewer, I see your cellulite; I’m down with your fibromyalgia; I know your menopausal misery.’ …the current season [of PR] is Read more →
Monday August 10th, 2009
Mid-Day Snack
Lovely Linda: The supermodels of our teen years are killing it this season on the campaign front. Evangelista and Galliano can really never go wrong as far as we’re concerned. {SassyBella} Lend A Hand: The LOVE blog is reporting that photographer Corinne Day is very, very sick and in need of some super expensive medical Read more →
Tuesday August 4th, 2009
Mid-Day Snack
Ew: Miley & a Jonas are in the new LOVE. Thankfully, this editorial peek features neither. {Fashionologie} “Deacon of Fashion”: Elio Berhanyer passed up the opportunity to work for Cristobal Balenciaga and sent a young man named Oscar de la Renta to New York City in his place, but no regrets. At 80-years-old he’s the Read more →
Tuesday July 21st, 2009
Mid-Day Snack
Girl On Film: Home schooled kids so did not look like this where we grew up. And they certainly didn’t get to appear in ads with Bambi. {W} Hot Damn! The big three are looking killer. Can we age this way, pretty please? {Fashion Gone Rogue} Just Like US: Janice Min is leaving US Weekly Read more →
Thursday July 16th, 2009
“I like being frugal. It limits you; it makes you think. You have to go to Nepal to understand what real difficulty is. The East Village — it’s not that bad.” —Prabal Gurung, speaking incredibly rationally in the NY Times.
Thursday July 9th, 2009
“She comes off as genuinely sweet, sunny and slightly dim, her punkette look the thinnest candy coating over an interior filled primarily with airy, whipped pink goo and nuvo-hippie, gestalt-y wow-ness.” —Cintra Wilson of the NY Times on Agyness Deyn. The writer goes on to debate whether said dimness is strategic or not.
Wednesday July 8th, 2009
“Mr. Lagerfeld said to forget about it. He was going to die with his boots on. He also mentioned that Alain Wertheimer, whose family owns Chanel, said he would sell the house when the designer leaves. This might not be the case, Mr. Lagerfeld said, but it was a nice thing to be told.” Cathy Read more →
Thursday July 2nd, 2009
Mid-Day Snack
About Bloody Time: The NY Times finally caught on to the whole vampire obsession. Phew, now we can believe it’s real. However I do thank them for giving me an excuse to run a picture of Edward Cullen, er, Robert Pattinson. {NY Times} Say It Ain’t So: Isn’t it bad enough that Christian Audigier has Read more →
Wednesday July 1st, 2009
“Recently, however, it has become clear that Paris fashion is less the creative hub of the industry than an isolated universe whose weakness can be sensed even by children. Sometime in the last decade, the industry discovered that fashion was a terrific means to an end — so long as the end was anything but Read more →
