Jezebel: Anne Slowey

Stylista Winner Quits Elle, Burns Bridges

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:38:00 EDT

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Johanna Cox, who won a job at Elle on Stylista, has left the magazine. In a bridge-burning blog post, Cox describes "working on the real-life set of that Meryl Streep movie" under a "very senior person" who was...less than collegial. More »

Lanvin For H&M Continues To Look Suspiciously Good

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:30:00 EDT

Lanvin and H&M have released another campaign image from their forthcoming collaboration, which hits stores November 23. Lanvin's signature hot-pink leopard print is well represented. Could this be the mass-market designer collection that looks most like the real thing? [VogueUK]

Gisele Bündchen Seen Kissing a Dude Who Is Not Tom Brady

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:39:00 EDT

The mystery man Gisele Bündchen was seen canoodling with at a Paris Vogue party is believed to be a New York art dealer — and ex-boyfriend of Bündchen's fellow Brazilian model Ana Beatriz Barros — named Helly Nahmad. Ahem. [Racked]

Lancôme Pays Julia Roberts $50 Million For Her Services

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:30:00 EDT

Julia Roberts' original deal with Lancôme, signed last December, was rumored to be worth up to $20 million. Now that the actress is renewing for five more years, she's said to be earning a cool $50 million. [Daily Mail]

Ambushed Fashionistas Tell Us How Much Their Shoes Cost

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:22:00 EDT

During Fashion Week, we've been milling around the tents, going to off-site shows, Fashion's Night Out events and sneaking backstage to find out how much people—designers, stylists, editors, celebrities, Real Housewives—pay for their shoes. More »

The World Just Cannot Get Over Marina Abramović

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:40:17 EDT

Marina Abramović celebrated the end of her marathon MoMA show with a dinner in her honor, hosted by Givenchy. Ciara, Courtney Love, and Patti Smith all turned up — James Franco did, too — and Elle's Anne Slowey tweeted it. More »

Kate Moss Earning Less Money; Tuleh Going Out Of Business?

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:30:00 EST

Kate Moss's company, Skate LLC, reported revenues of just over £1 million and profits of £771,139 during the year 2009. This is a significant drop from when she made 6.5 million in 2007. [Daily Mail]

Randy Jackson Admits Jackson Family Reality Show Was A Mistake

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:00:00 EST

Today in Tweet Beat, Randy Jackson says it was too soon after MJ's death to film a reality show, Michael Lohan is still talking shit on his ex, and Suze Orman gives car-purchasing advice. More »

Elle Editor Claims Mean Tavi Comments Were Convenient Misquotes

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:30:00 EST

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Anne Slowey is no longer sure about any of what she told New York about Tavi Gevinson. "I don't recall ever saying she had a 'Tavi team,'" writes Slowey, who had compared Gevinson to fake author JT Leroy. [Elle] More »

Fashionista Didn't Mean To Say Tavi Gevinson Was Just "A Novelty"

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:40:00 EST

Vogue contributor and children's author Lesley M. M. Blume wrote us today to distance herself from some of her reported comments about 13-year-old writer Tavi Gevinson, whom she thrice called "a novelty." More »

Elle Editor Leads Backlash Against 13-Year-Old Fashion Blogger

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:00:00 EST

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Tavi Gevinson—the Chicago area 13-year-old behind the fashion blog Style Rookie—certainly has come a long way. In 18 months of blogging, Tavi has gone from writing raps about Rei Kawakubo to flying to Japan as her guest. More »

Diablo Cody Might Work On The Playboy Movie?

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:00:00 EDT

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Today in Tweet Beat, Hugh Hefner is meeting with Brian Grazer and Diablo Cody about the Playboy movie that's in the works, Frances Bean and LeVar Burton are Twitter buddies, and Kim Zolciak explains her relationship status with Big Poppa. More »

Anna Wintour's "Toothy" Cover Subject To Try Modeling

TatianaTheAnonymousModel — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:30:00 EST

Sienna Miller is going to be the face of a new Hugo Boss fragrance. When was the last time you remember Sienna Miller actually acting? [WWD]

New Beckham/Armani Briefs Advertisement Debuts

TatianaTheAnonymousModel — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:30:00 EST

Before we tackle today's inevitable layoffs, liquidations and bankruptcies, look at David Beckham. Look at semi-naked David Beckham. In his very important new Emporio Armani ad. Why, good morning to you, Dave. [People]

Zac Posen On Stylista: "Snore!"

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:00:00 EST

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Fashion designer Zac Posen was on Stylista last night to help Elle's Anne Slowey and Joe Zee with the elimination. More »

You're Not The Right Fit

Maria — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:40:00 EST

We love to hatewatch CW's Stylista but how is the show faring in the big world of fashion-related reality television? Not too great: the show has averaged about 1.97 million viewers a week, which is peanuts in broadcast network terms. At least the show can take solace in the fact that The Rachel Zoe Project on Bravo only averaged a measly 688,000 viewers during its first season. American television viewers may be a little stupid at times (Dancing With The Stars is on what season now?) but we will always pick Slowey over Zoe. [WWD] More »

Stylista: Anne Slowey Can "Run The Bulls" In Stilettos

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:00 EST

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The best Stylista challenges are the ones that exist solely to reiterate Anne Slowey's importance. On last night's episode, the contestants were given $1,000 each to style and buy Anne a complete outfit from Henri Bendel so she could bring it with her on a last minute trip to the Hamptons. Whichever ensemble Anne liked the best was the challenge winner. The contestants had to meet her on a cobblestone street in Manhattan's Meatpacking district, which Anne was seen hobbling through on a pair of stilettos. The life lesson we all learned from this challenge is that 1) she doesn't like a lot of shiny things around her neck and 2) orange is her least flattering color. Clip above. More »

Stylista "Fiercely" Cribs From Other Shows Fond Of The Word "Fierce"

Maria — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:40:00 EDT

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Well, it's here: the long-awaited premiere of the Tyra Banks-produced reality series, Stylista. The premise is a simple (if not recycled) one: a group of young adults compete for the coveted position of "junior editor" at Elle magazine (a job once held by former Jezebel Jennifer Gerson), which includes a year of rent-free living and a wardrobe allowance. The show revolves around Elle Fashion News Director Anne Slowey, who is, by most accounts, not as icy as the Anne Slowey that she plays on TV. The critics agree that the show is good for its niche, but if a combination of The Devil Wears Prada, Ugly Betty and Project Runway doesn't appeal to you, you might want to skip this one. The reviews, after the jump. More »

Elle fashion editor and Stylista judge Anne...

Jessica G. — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:40:00 EDT

Elle fashion editor and Stylista judge Anne Slowey had this to say about the role of assistant editor, over which the the Stylista contestants are competing "Q: What do assistants — or "junior editors" — at Elle do? A: Well! This will be interesting to figure out when it comes time for the person to begin the job! People keep saying they're working for me — I haven't been told they are…So they'll probably do a rotation — like a first-year med student!" We do not want Stylista participants coming anywhere near us with a needle, however. [LAT] More »

Do You Have To Be Thin To Work In Fashion? Stylista Seems To Think So

Jessica G. — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:30:00 EDT

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A promo for Stylista, the reality show in which contestants compete to become Elle fashion editor Anne Slowey's new assistant, has hit the internet, and we're not going to lie: it looks bitchily delightful. What's troubling, however, is the treatment of the one plus-sized contestant, Danielle (pictured). The promo announces, "Fashion isn't about playing nice, it's war," before launching into footage of a series of fights between contestants. One snotty looking girl says, "If you're going to work in this industry, then you have to change your body for it," after which the producers show a few shots of Danielle looking at herself in a mirror, perturbed. Then Danielle says, "Believe me I want to look different. There are things about me I want to change." More »

You Wanna Be On Top

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:30:00 EDT

Do yourself a favor and read "America’s Next Top Fashion Editor," Moe Tkacik's story in this week's New York magazine. It's the epic tale of Nina Garcia, Anne Slowey, Elle, Project Runway and the new CW show Stylista (starring Elle fashion editor Slowey). Plus! The appeal of fashion-related reality TV, "the crack rock of programming." You'll learn the differences between Garcia and Slowey (closets: "Slowey’s is small, East Village, overflowing with vintage finds; Garcia’s is cavernous, color-coded, and situated in an apartment overlooking Central Park.") as well as the events surrounding Garcia's departure from Elle. (She's now at Marie Claire.) As for Stylista, which premieres in October? Anne Slowey says: "I don’t even know what reality is anymore." [New York Magazine] More »

Meet Karenna, Martha Stewart's Wardrobe Mistress

Moe — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:30:00 EDT

Martha Stewart has a wardrobe mistress paint the soles of her Christian Louboutins black. We would endorse this, as we take most of our fashion cues from the fictional character Cayce Pollard in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition and think that conspicuous logos are the scourge of the universe, but blogging about the fact that you not only remove said logos but have a "wardrobe mistress" to do it for you is not exactly inconspicuous. And yet...I love her? [The Martha Blog]

Nina Garcia And ELLE: In? Out? Or In?

Jennifer — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:30:00 EDT

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You knew this already, but Project Runway judge/style tome author/ELLE fashion director Nina Garcia has parted ways with the magazine that made her. At least, ELLE has yet to tell anyone the rumors are false.

Tom Ford To Bequeath His Devastatingly Attractive Genes To A Baby?

Jennifer — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:30:00 EDT

Oh lord: Tom Ford is having a baby in 2008. It will be "biologically" his, not his partner Richard Buckley's. "I don't want to get to 75 years old and just have made a lot of dresses, done some houses." In the same interview: "I don't find a guy's cock or a woman's vagina offensive; in fact, I find them beautiful." So will he be penetrating one to achieve this demonspawn? He probably won't be able to keep them off him! "I was having sex with girls when I was 14, and that was because they were pouncing on me." [Fashion Week Daily]

Rodnik Designers Dance To The Tune Of Their Own Drummer

Jennifer — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:30:00 EST

Last night at The Box nightclub here in New York, the British designers behind Rodnik (Philip Colbert and Richard Ascott) showed their Fall/Winter 2008 collection in a somewhat interesting way: Instead of a runway and floodlights and rows and rows of chairs, the designers decided to publicly perform a set of really, really bad rock songs while their models chilled on stage. Yes, Rodnik is not only a fashion label, but a band! (Drums and vocals, specifically.) And damn if everyone wasn't totally behind them in their endeavor. There was laughter, free booze, and even dancing by fashion industry gatekeepers Anne Slowey (of Elle) and Andre Leon Talley (you know where he works.) Photos of the event begin in the gallery after the jump. More »

ELLE Nutjob Anne Slowey Soon To Be A TV Star

Jennifer — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:30:00 EST

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Remember the news about the new reality show in which Tyra Banks pits a group of young women against one another to compete for a job at a fashion magazine? Well, it looks like the ladymag in question is ELLE and creative director Joe Zee and fashion news director/calorie restrictor Anne Slowey are going to be judges. Having worked with these people, allow me to just say this is going to make for good television. [WWD, 2nd item]

No Love Lost Between J. Lo And Label's Former Designer

Jennifer — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:00:00 EST

Jennifer Lopez is expected to file suit against former Sweetface design partner Andy Hilfiger, ostensibly because, uh, the line really sucks. Hilfiger, meanwhile, is expected to countersue because Lopez' hubby Marc Anthony is a psychotic asshole. [NY Daily News]

MagHag

Jennifer — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:45:00 EST

An in-the-know tipster informed us yesterday that Facebook is now home to two members of the ladymag elite: Elle Creative Director Joe Zee, and the magazine's Fashion News Director, Anne Slowey. Though Slowey has keenly set her privacy preferences to prevent us from checking out her page, Zee's page is open to anyone in the New York, NY network. (Click on the tag for a peek at Joe's page). More »

As Suspected, The Models Aren't Eating

Jennifer — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:30:00 EST

Poor models. Not only are many of them picky eaters, some are driven to fits of rage by the focus on their eating habits, as we learned this past Fashion Week. But for every runway rag & bone who insists that she regularly ingests 3 Big Macs a day, there's someone like Catherine McNeil, who has just granted New York Magazine the pleasure of publishing her food diary. Rather than going whole hog and pulling an Anne Slowey (three olives a day! God, we love that lady), McNeil goes the opposite route and pretends to "eat" lots and lots. Thing is, using a handy dandy calorie counter, we did the math and have come to the conclusion that McNeil isn't even hitting an anorexic ballerina's usual 1000 calories a day...any day of the week! Not healthy, lady! Her food diary and our calculations, after the jump. More »

Roberto Cavalli Dresses J.Lo's Expanding Bump

Jennifer — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:30:24 EDT

Designer Roberto Cavalli has never been known for subtlety. On working with celebrity clientele: "Well Jennifer Lopez, at this moment, she requests something very special because she is waiting for the baby. It is so complicated because every week she is getting bigger." Ha ha, and Lopez still hasn't confirmed her pregnancy. [People.com]

Nothing Is More Boring Than Your Diet

Moe — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:30:11 EDT

Know how you know it's a slow news day? Yeah, when you read this post because everything on the internet is FUCKING BORING today. Anyway, keep in mind I'm operating under the assumption that we all agree that dieters are annoying, but dieters who write stories about their food diaries and how much they are suffffering are the annoyingmost. (Seriously, If we really wanted to hear your self-disciporn, don't you think we'd be dieting ourselves? Yeah, that's right, we'd like to be thinner, but we'd rather be fat and capable of thinking about things other than whether that hunger we are feeling is really hunger, or just appetite, or whether any of those pangs you thought were hunger before, were just straight-up pangs of First World greed, and this is what it felt like to endure Stalin-era rationing, or maybe your stomach is simply shrinking....actually it's your brain) Anyway, someone is blogging her diet on the Huffington Post right now. (She skips a cocktail and contemplates eating watermelon under her desk so no one will see her ingest sugar, but resists! It's monklike, really.) More »

Donatella Versace Is Looking For A Protege

Jennifer — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:00:00 EDT

Donatella Versace's on the prowl: "I am looking for The One to take over the Versace brand." How Carrie Bradshaw of her? Anyway, the front-runner right now seems to be English designer Christopher Kane: ""Christopher is my favorite designer. He and Tammy remind me so much of me and Gianni - brother and sister, working together." Paging Dr. Freud! [Vogue UK]

Lindsay Lohan Distracts Us From Turmoil At 'Elle'

Moe — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:30:22 EDT

Since we started caring about Elle we've come to recognize it's a pretty tidy microcosm of everything dysfunctional about fashion magazines that doesn't involve the word "Nast." Smart women work there! So do bitches! So do insane people! And lots of haggard assistants and associates who leave. The narcissists who were never good for anything besides promoting themselves are credited with restoring "relevance," Nina Garcia is too busy selling telecommunications devices to show up, which is just as well since the overworked EIC she hates is busy leading a "redesign," and OMG LOOK OVER THERE BLOWHAN IS ON THE COVER! More »

Will Garcia, Kors & Klum Get The Tabloid Treatment?

Jennifer — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:29:51 EDT

If it's true that E! is trying to make an E! True Hollywood Story on Project Runway (and that the Project Runway PR folk are up in arms about it), well then, we're happier than Heidi Klum when she gets to say "goodbye" in her native German. There's so much juicy, yet unexplored, stuff about the show, like who hates who and why Elle's Anne Slowey got cut from her full-time gig after Season 1, and why Tim Gunn is celibate (and Heidi Klum is always pregnant) and maybe even why Season Two's Santino Rice once made a move to strangle Nina Garcia? More »

Maybe Anne Slowey Eats Only Olives Because That's All She Can Afford On Her 'Elle' Paycheck

Jennifer — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:00:56 EDT

First we catch wind of the fact that there's no RSS feed on ELLE.com because there's no room for it in the budget, and now comes word that Elle can't afford to send its fashion team to the July couture shows in Paris. Right now, only founding Creative Director Gilles Bensimon (circled) is confirmed to attend, with nary a member of the top of the masthead (pictured alongside him from left to right, Editor-in-Chief Roberta Myers, Fashion Director Nina Garcia, Fashion News Director Anne Slowey, and Creative Director Joe Zee) to join in in the festivities. Myers confirmed this to Fashion Week Daily, saying the downsized traveling team was all a result of "budget reasons." And frankly, we respect her choice. We would much rather see the money going towards buying Anne Slowey something a hearty meal! Or, er, hiring some people to work in her newly-deserted department! More »

'Elle' Magazine's Fashion News Department: Now With Fewer People Than Olives

Jennifer — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:46:05 EDT

Elle's "fashion news" department has lost yet another member of its staff. Ordinarily we would not care, but Elle's fashion news department is helmed by one inimitable Anne Slowey, she of the occasional three-olive-a-day diet. Anne is blonde and, we hear, very spiritual, so we know she is handling the loss of senior fashion news editor Jenny Feldman — departing for the decidedly more hipster-heavy pastures of Nylon — with total Zenlike calm, like that time the Buddha sat so long meditating the bird shits accumulated in thick piles on his head, except that we would, uh, not want to be the bird who takes a dump on Anne Slowey's head. More »

'Elle' Fashion Editor Anne Slowey Chews Food, Swallows

Jennifer — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:43:06 EDT

Our favorite fashion editor/former Project Runway judge/extreme dieter Anne Slowey was spotted — wait for it! — eating dinner last night. Mexican food and margaritas, no less. Pardon the pun, but we'll be dining out on this one for awhile. She's known to eat only three olives a day, people! More »

Dieting Now Available With Side Of Guilt About The Plight Of The Less-Fortunate

Moe — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:20:34 EDT

Not to be self-referential or anything, but since our bosses started threatening us about this blog actually going "live," we have eaten: More »

Between The Covers: Anne Slowey's Kinda Nasty-Ass "Elle" Office

Anna Holmes — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:45:04 EDT

The May, "Green" issue of Elle has just hit newsstands and last night, we found a delightful and revealing little article by Elle editorial assistant Lindsay Talbot, who toils for the magazine's Fashion News Direcdtor (and notorious under-eater) Anne Slowey. More »

Fashion Roundup

Anna Holmes — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:37:41 EST

Naomi Watts may sign on as spokesmodel for Escada, that is, if she's not too pissed that they outed her pregnancy on Oscar Sunday. [WWD] More »