Sneak Peek: Andrea Linett's New Book I Want To Be Her
Andrea Linett has done a lot of awesome things. After advancing from receptionist to an editor at Sassy (where she essentially discovered Chloe Sevi
Andrea Linett has done a lot of awesome things. After advancing from receptionist to an editor at Sassy (where she essentially discovered Chloe Sevi
Michelle Williams Is Still Marilyn Monroe, This Time on GQ's Cover: While we await the day magazines will get sick of the Marilyn Monroe theme they so adore, we will bask in Michelle Williams' editorial shots for GQ, which are quite beautiful. {GQ} Zappos Gets Hacked: 24 million accounts were affected Monday when a hacker let loose on the online shoe store. Names, addresses, phone numbers, and partial credit card numbers were accessed, causing the e-tailer to encourage its customers to change their password information for the Zappos site, as well as modify passwords for accounts on other sites if they were the same. We will never understand the motives behind hacking, but whoever caused all this trouble better have ordered themselves a good pair of Nikes to run in once the cops come looking for them! {CNN Money} Taylor Swift Wants to Bake Cookies With Karlie Kloss: The Vogue cover girl (interrupted) reveals this and many more fascinating tidbits like how "awkward" she was in middle school and that her next album will be about (surprise!) heartbreak. {Vogue}
The NYT's Thursday Styles' section has a lengthy profile on Brandon Holley and where she aims to take Lucky. The piece goes in depth on the reasons Holley was brought in, shedding light on the ways in which Lucky was failing. It was very informative! Here's what we learned: 1. Brandon Holley is a bad ass and we have a serious girl crush on her. She shaved the sides of her head and wore ripped tees at punk shows at the 9:30 club in DC when she was a teenager. Then, in her 20s, she started her own Riot Grrrl band, first called Bikini Machine (a la Bikini Kill), then renamed Gangster of Love (much better), and she designed fur bikinis for her all-girl band to wear on stage. The band wasn't into the furkinis though ("There was a revolt," Holley told the Times.) She was part of the LES scene that saw Max Fish open and become the nexis of said "scene." She got into magazine writing because she was planning to write a book about her passion, American muscle cars, and ended up writing a story for Paper about them after meeting one of the mag's founders, David Hershkovits, at Max Fish. Her husband plays piano for Sesame Street. She lives in Red Hook. “I love fashion and I love clothes and I love the way people dress, but I don’t cry at a Marc Jacobs show," she says. 2. Holley will bring "more words" and "prettier models" to Lucky. When Lucky started in 2000 as a curated shopping magazine, it was ground breaking. According to the Times, it turned a profit faster than any other title in Condé Nast history and spawned many imitators. But then it stuck with that same formula year after year and ad pages plummeted in 2009 prompting founding editor Kim France's ousting and Holley's installment. To shake things up she says she plans to give stories a little more meat and use more conventionally attractive models to lure advertisers back. 3. Watch for Luckymag.com to become a “social shopping experience.” We already reported on how Holley plans to bring bloggers into the mag, launching a fashion and beauty blog network called “Lucky Style Collective." More on this from the NYT: "Ms. Holley wants to transform Luckymag.com into a “social shopping experience,” akin to eBay and etsy.com, where readers can create their own digital boutiques, perhaps giving a page in the print edition every month to the woman whose boutique sells the most."
TSA Considers Spiked Loubs "Weapons": Some guy named Taz Arnold was traveling with his $1,245 Christian Louboutin Rollerboy Spike shoes and according to his twitter account, the TSA deemed them weapons. {Yahoo! Shine} Get Ready For Snooki the Brand: Snooki--though she recently told the NY Daily News that she prefers to be called Nicole--has hired NY firm SRG Ventures to manage various Snooki-licensed gear to be rolled out over the coming year. Up first? Slippers, jewelry, oversized sunnies, and then possibly denim, sportswear, lingerie, handbags, personal care, beauty products, fragrances, swimwear, bedding and home goods. What about solo cups, Snooks? {NY Post} WWD Devotes New Section To the Boys: WWD has launched a new section devoted to men's fashion and style called Mensweek, that will appear in the paper every Thursday. "We wanted to amp up our men’s coverage," a WWD spokesperson told us, " looking ahead it’s such an important market and continues to strengthen." Today's section features a story that credits the recession with the recent spike in menswear retail and another that ranks quarterbacks (really). {WWD subscription NOT required this time}
If you, like us, flipped through the December issue of Lucky magazine and missed former Creative Director Andrea Linett’s illustrated Fashion Babble page, get excited. Linett has brought the page back to life on the web. I Want to Be Her launched yesterday and it will feature a few stylish women each week drawn by Anne Johnston Albert, illustrator and designer of Martin Clothes, who drew Linett for Lucky each month. Similar to Fashion Babble, every piece in the illustration is attached to real product, but unlike the magazine page, you can now click to buy.