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Monday March 26th, 2012

Kate Moss Has a Very Healthy Attitude About the Tabloid That Skewers Her
Kate Moss

Kate Moss Has a Very Healthy Attitude About the Tabloid That Skewers Her

This week’s New Yorker has a nice long story about UK tabloid-supreme The Daily Mail and why the paper some prefer to call “Hate Mail” is doing so well. According to the story, the Mail has a daily readership of four and a half million (that’s four times as many readers as The Guardian) and in January, surpassed the New York Times in unique monthly visitors to their home page. 52 million different people click on The Daily Mail each month (and we admit it, we’re one of them).

There’s a nice little gem in there from one of the Mail‘s favorite subjects to skewer, Kate Moss. If you need a refresher about how the Mail feels about Moss, let us refer you to this story, where, after Moss walked in Louis Vuitton’s fall 2011 “fetish” show in hot pants, the paper went to great lengths to highlight her barely there cellulite. Nice, right?

Anyways…as per The New Yorker, after the Mail ran a story which described Moss as having “very obvious crow’s feet and lines beneath her eyes as well as blemished skin from years of smoking and drinking,” a journalist asked Moss why she thought the tab was so focused on her aging. To which Moss responded:

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Published at 2:15 PM

Sunday September 25th, 2011

The Incredible Evolution of Daphne Guinness
Fashion Is Fun

The Incredible Evolution of Daphne Guinness

This week The New Yorker ran a piece on Daphne Guinness, and much like everything the style icon does (or wears), the revelations from Rebecca Mead’s fantastic profile are surprising, over-the-top, and kind of absurd.

Guinness would probably be the first to admit that she’s not exactly your average human. After all it was her own boyfriend, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, who said of her: “[she is] no longer a person, [she is] a concept.”

So what exactly is Daphne Guinness?

We have yet to fully figure it out but in light of the much-talked-about New Yorker interview, we explore the many facets of Daphne Guinness–from her style philosophy to her thoughts on Hitler–though we’re willing to bet the thing that will shock you most will be what the style icon looked like in the late ’80s. Go on, have a look.

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Published at 4:30 PM

Monday October 4th, 2010

Fashion Forward at the New Yorker Festival: What Maria Cornejo Said When She Wasn’t Dissing Carla Bruni
Events

Fashion Forward at the New Yorker Festival: What Maria Cornejo Said When She Wasn’t Dissing Carla Bruni

On Saturday, The New Yorker Festival presented Fashion Forward, a panel that included Maria Cornejo, Phillip Lim, Naeem Khan and David Neville and Marcus Wainwright from Rag & Bone. As you may have heard, Maria Cornejo expressed her not so high opinion ofCarla Bruni-Sarkozy at said panel. We were there, and surrounding that brief and hilarious moment, was a very thoughtful and open discussion about the business of fashion.

The New Yorker labeled these designers “The New Guard.” They have all established measurable success and are probably on their way to becoming household names. Cornejo and Khan have designed dresses for the first lady. Phillip, David and Marcus have won CFDA awards. All of them have impressively withstood the shaky economy and none of them were born in the U.S.

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Published at 7:13 PM

Monday January 11th, 2010

Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

A Model Engagement: MTV VJ Ruby Rose announced her engagement to Catherine McNeil on Facebook this weekend. But who, we wonder, gets to make the dress. And when will we get Cat back on the runways? {SydneyHerald} Rodarte Talk: Amanda Fortini profiles Kate and Laura Mulleavy in this week’s New Yorker. She writes nothing new Read more →

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Wednesday October 7th, 2009

Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

Say What Alber: Remember when Alber told The New Yorker he’d never do a diffusion line? And then when he did do a diffusion line? Someone did and someone asked and he just couldn’t handle it. {ElleUK} On McQueen: Try to break up your Sarah Mower with other important critics. Like Hilary Alexander’s Alexander McQueen Read more →

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Published at 2:16 PM

Wednesday September 9th, 2009

Quote of the Day

“But the conspicuousness of the pattern also means that the company has little control over how it is seen, or on whom.”—Lauren Collins in her New Yorker profile on Christopher Bailey, in reference to Sarah Palin and her Burberry scarves.

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Published at 10:44 AM

Monday July 27th, 2009

Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

Upstream Upheaval: An intellectualization of the trials and tribulations of shopping for swimsuits and why, unless you’re Gisele or Gwyneth, the experience blows. {NewYorker} Shopping Buzz: Singtex Industrial Company, based in Taiwan, is turning leftover coffee grounds into eco-friendly “soft, light, flexible and breathable” clothes that can be UV resistant and water-repellant. {Guardian} Ghosts of Read more →

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Published at 1:19 PM

Tuesday July 21st, 2009

Models

Jezebel’s Anonymous Model Revealed!

And the writer is…Jenna Sauers. The New Zealander has penned her final essay as Tatiana here, but she’s going to continue to contribute to the site, just under her own name. The commenters are going a little bananas over there, throwing around words like The New Yorker and Joan Didion regarding her writing style, which Read more →

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Published at 2:29 PM

Monday July 20th, 2009

Monday June 15th, 2009

Magazines

Won’t You Be Our Neighbor?

We’ve long adored Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler, both separately and as the adorable couple they’ve been for all these years. This week’s New Yorker just made us fall more deeply in love. Each quote in the piece is like a perfect little taste of what an evening in their “palatial gay fantasia” of an Read more →

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Published at 3:23 PM

Monday January 21st, 2008

Quote of the Day

“Several blocks later, I came across a standard, uniformed version of the “New York power woman”: black flats, black dress, black overcoat, black headband. And as much as I tried to resist this woman’s funereal image, I felt myself drawn to her apparent sadness and fear. Her costuming was a shield; one felt that she Read more →

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Published at 9:28 AM