Jezebel: Amy Astley

Black And White And Schmancy All Over

Sadie Stein — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:35:00 EDT

Was there a dress code? Or do stars just hear "CHANEL Tribeca Film Festival Artists Dinner" and assume through long practice that it's an occasion for black and white? More »

"Calvin Klein, Go Back In The Closet!"

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:46:00 EST

Village Voice nightlife columnist Michael Musto has sharp words for Calvin Klein, seen here with boyfriend Nick Gruber. "Get a grip on yourself, girl, and nail some dignity to the floor before this kid steals it all away from you."

Zoolander Sequel Really, Really, Really Happening

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:10:00 EST

Zoolander II news! Owen Wilson says he and Ben Stiller are at work on the the long-awaited sequel, which should be released in 2012. Wilson also says he wants Lady Gaga to make a cameo. [Monsters&Critics]

Snowpocalypse Spells Chaos For Fashion Week; Running Shoe Adjusts To Menstrual Cycle

Sadie Stein — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST

While we assume McQueen's death will add gravitas, Fashion Week is off to a farcical start. "Phones not working because of the snow...Girls have had phone problems because they are using them outside. They forget that snow is WATER!" [NYMag]

H&M Sold Lead-Laden Bags; ANTM Winner Books McQueen Campaign

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:30:00 EST

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As if trashgate and the news that it knowingly sold genetically-engineered cotton as "organic" weren't bad enough, now H&M is in trouble for the unsafe levels of lead in its handbags. The revelation comes courtesy of California's strict environmental laws:

Teen Dreams — And Nightmares — At Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:30:00 EDT

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The 7th annual Teen Vogue Young Hollywood party, held in L.A. on Friday, saw stars like Kelly Osbourne, Ashley Tisdale and 90210's AnnaLynn McCord sporting ensembles good, bad, and, yes, incredibly ugly. More »

Fashion Jobs Are Not All They're Cracked Up To Be

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:30:00 EDT

Young women are lured by "glamorous" careers; Teen Vogue wants to help! Hence The Teen Vogue Handbook, a "how-to guide for students dreaming of jobs as a designer, stylist, photographer or editor." Except designers are going bankrupt. Magazines are folding. More »

To Splurge, Or To Steal? For Teen Vogue, There Is No Question

Moe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:30:00 EDT

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Pretty much every women's fashion magazine these days seems to have a Splurge vs. Steal feature, in which ensembles featured on the catwalks of Milan and New York are interpreted for the purposes of so-called "real life." But leave it to Teen Vogue to put its own special spin on this idea! See, for the readership of most magazines, "real life" does not involve having the disposable income to fund the actual D&G plaid coat! (Or, for that matter, the Marni fur backpack with which to dress it "down.") Not for Teen Vogue's readership — nothing less than "authentic" will do! After the jump, the magazine's August issue interprets fall fashions in ways that actual teenagers can emulate. More »

Teen Vogue Gives Summer Olympians A Sliiight Makeover

Moe — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:00:00 EDT

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Although we were so very heartened to see Teen Vogue editor Amy Astley take the evil fashion industry to task for perpetuating unrealistic body ideals on the Today show, we admit we were skeptical! Just how was this new focus on health going to manifest itself in the pages of her theretofore anorex-positive magazine, hmmm? Now we know! Just in time to celebrate the Genocide Olympics, the July Teen Vogue is celebrating female athleticism in a 12-page fashion spread. (This is in stark contrast to its big sister Vogue, which only last month ran an entire "body issue" celebrating male athleticism by pairing male athletes with female…supermodels.) Such independence and spunk, that Teen Vogue! Catch the mag's take on fencing, beach volleyball, ping-pong, and leaning against a balance beam looking vaguely malnourished in a Berhard Willhelm cape and vintage Indian headdress,after the jump. See girls, you can be "athletic" without sacrificing your ACL. — or your BMI. More »

Alexandra Michael Is About 28 Pounds Too Fat For Modeling

Moe — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:00:00 EDT

We used to play a little game called "Arm or Leg?" with the limbs of some of the models in Teen Vogue. (Such as this one.) But today on the Today show, Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Amy Astley announced the magazine's pro-ana days are over. Astley was moved by the story of 17-year-old model Alexandra Michael, who joined her this morning to talk about how she was sent home from Paris for being too fat, but she's okay with that since her hair is no longer falling out after she packed on 30 pounds in eating disorder rehab. And who does Amy Astley blame for the industry's deleterious emaciation obsession? "I think it's cyclical," she says. Ha ha ha, tell that to the kid who didn't get her period for a year! More »

Teen Vogue's Amy Astley Resolves To Stop Consuming The Mindsquelching Ephemeral Cultureporn She Dishes Out '08

Moe — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:30:00 EST

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Teen Vogue editor in chief Amy Astley's New Year's Resolution is to read more books in lieu of the New York Post and break her kids of their Disney Channel habit. Because what you are offering the culture is sooooo motherfucking wholesome and thought-provoking, Amy Astley. [WWD

"People Move On To Coke, Starting At About Fifteen. It's At Every Party We Go To."

Moe — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:20:53 EST

"This," says Chloe, sitting on a mahogany bench and looking around the expansive marble and brass-accented lobby, "this is how we live." That's the last line of "Drinking Diaries," a story in next month's Teen Vogue, in which Eva Chen goes drinking with high schoolers in San Francisco and New York and, well, I would say she compares them, but that would make it sound more service-y than it actually is. It's hard to say exactly how much they drink, but she makes it sound like a lot. In San Francisco, for instance, she goes to a Japanese place with what seem to be five kids who order "eleven 40-ounce bottles of Japanese beer and eleven bottles of hot sake" — and you're like, "For reals, the Japanese make forties?" — but whatevs, that's nothing compared to what happens back in New York the night she gets a text-message from "Chloe"

"My friend, "Audrey", if visiting from boarding school," it reads. "And when she's here, Things Happen.

Holy mother dude, again, really? Capital-T-Things, capital H Happen? More »

Teen Vogue Message Boards: "I Gained Alot Of Weight Over The Summer. Its Disgusting."

Moe — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:00:06 EST

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It has long saddened me that I was never granted entrance to VIP threads of RingsWorld, the New York Times of pro-ana message boards, but you know what they say: "information wants to be free," and no one ever said "except for the 'thinspiring' tales and laxative how-tos of a demented subculture of teenage girls who are actually warped enough to try and attain the standards of beauty perpetuated by magazines like Teen Vogue." And would you believe it? It seems message boards on the website of Teen Vogue are well on their way to displacing RingsWorld's as the leading online community of the anorex-positive! Like on Monday, user vaVA_Vume posted: More »

The Hills: Escape From L.A.

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:00:30 EDT

Does 'Teen Vogue' Editor Amy Astley Let Anna Wintour Sign Her Name For Her?

Moe — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:00:00 EDT

In September 2000 Amy Astley, then a beauty editor at Vogue, wrote a story about saying "ciao to hanging hair" and cutting a "chic, sleek bob." Know any other editor with a chic, sleek bob, folks? In short, Amy — now the editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue — takes her hairstyle cues from Anna Wintour, which is appropriate for someone who's invariably described by people close to and at arms-length from her as a more of a "figurehead" than an actual editor. (Another oft-used description: "bitch.") As the great helmswoman of the Vogue megabrand, Wintour essentially calls the shots at Astley's magazine, from cover subjects to "strategic direction," leaving Astley to go about the important business of pretending she runs the magazine for the sake of viewers of The Hills. So perhaps Wintour also signs Astley's name for her! After all, as graphologist Sheila Kurtz puts it, Astley's "penmanship" suggests (improbably!) someone who would "go after [opportunity] without anyone else's OK." More »

Donatella To Costume The Spice Girls. Our Lives = Complete.

Jennifer — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:04:52 EDT

The Spice Girls are reuniting, and Donatella Versace may be dressing them for the reunion tour. G-d works in mysterious ways, and Jennie may have just forgiven Him for the Holocaust... [AHN.com]

'Teen Vogue': Where Did It Go Wrong?

Moe — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:23:42 EDT

First they came for Jane, now they're killing Vibe Vixen — and what's this? Teen Vogue is next? But they try so very very hard to reach out to disenfranchised young girls! How could it possibly be failing? We consulted the August issue for clues. More »

'Teen Vogue' Reverses Position On Food Consumption

Moe — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:59:10 EDT

Teen Vogue touts an interesting new pastime in next month's More »

Rihanna Falls Prey To Anna Wintour's Hair-Gemony

Moe — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:11:40 EDT

We've been all a-scratch over what the hell was so damn irksome about Teen Vogue Intern Diana's Friday blog dispatch on attending the Venus Celebrity Legs Of A Goddess Event with R&B chanteuse Rihanna. Perhaps it was:

The name "Celebrity Legs Of A Goddess" (Someone was paid to come up with!)

'Teen Vogue' Interns Spend A Suspicious Amount Of Time Talking About What They Were Wearing At Their 'Teen Vogue' Interviews...

Moe — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:12:15 EDT

We always thought there was something really suspicious and Penthouse 'Letters'-y about the Teen Vogue "intern blog", and the other day, upon reading the virgin post of new Intern Juli — pictured somewhat ridiculously at left — we finally figured out why! For your consideration, examples from three separate interns' recent dispatches:

Juli:"I was so stressed when deciding what to wear to my interview. I ran around all day in a panic."

'Teen Vogue' Commenters: Friends, Or Frenemies?

Moe — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:14:34 EDT

We've said this before, but sometimes we just don't know what to make of Teen Vogue and its readers, particularly when it comes to the magazine's interns, who are both the subjects of a uniquely bad reality television show and the ostensible writers of a generically-bad blog called "Behind the Seams". We'd say all the interns offend us as much as Emily Weiss, does, but only half of them actually do. (Cynthia!) And, actually it's the comments posted by readers that really get us. Like, Are they for real? (And therefore, this afternoon's sign of the apocalypse?) Or are they sly, but kinda poorly-executed jokes? Here, verbatim, are some of our favorite head-scratchers from the Teen Vogue website from today: More »

'Teen Vogue' Panelists Tell It Like It Is

Moe — Tue, 22 May 2007 14:09:29 EDT

We hate it when magazines are all distant and detached from their readers, which is why we think it is really good for society at large that Teen Vogue holds regular conversations with a socio-economically diverse group of its readers about things that really, really matter. For instance! The June-July 2007 issue — which will have to satisfy its readers for the two whooolle months they're toiling at Seeds of Peace camp or whatever the college admissions swamis are advocating these days — tackles: More »

Between The Covers With: Kate White, Intern Jenna, Nina Garcia and Mom-Mags

Anna Holmes — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:40:05 EDT

Did the failure of Bonnie Fuller's 23-word-title self-help tome scare off the publisher for her replacement at Cosmopolitan, Kate White? White has apparently changed the title of the paperback edition of her latest non-fiction book, cutting it down from 17 words (18 if you're not counting hyphenated phrases!) to 15. With Fuller's book selling only 338 copies in paperback since its release in early January, we don't blame her! [Radar]

How To Ace A 'Teen Vogue' Interview: Love Clothes!

Moe — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:12:59 EDT

We don't know how we missed Teen Vogue intern/glamazon/stair-faller Whitney's job interview with Teen Vogue Editrix Amy Astley on Monday night's season finale of 'The Hills' — maybe we hiccuped? (Is it possible to pay attention to this show without a drinking game involved??) Anyway, the interview lasted approx. 79 seconds, entailed some sort of nebulous job called "fashion contributor" which involves basically having psychic powers, and according to Teen Vogue beauty blogger Eva Chen Whitney "seemed to ace" it! And she should know, you know, because she works there!

A: You wanna be a fashion stylist? or a fashion editor? W: Yes, most definitely A: You love it. W: Yes. A: Love clothes? W: Love clothes A: Well listen i don't really have any more questions for you.