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Despite much hand-wringing about the state of women and television, one person doesn't seem too worried—and she should know better than almost anybody. Here's what Amy Poehler had to say about television's depiction of women in an interview with Ariel Levy during this week's New Yorker Festival: More »
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Of all the upsetting things people say about Silvio Berlusconi, perhaps the most disturbing is that he is "natural." More »
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What a thrill it is, every once in a while, to read a rip-roaring take-down! Today's specimen is Reed Krakoff, the Coach designer who launched his own super-expensive namesake brand last year, who is profiled by Ariel Levy in this week's New Yorker. Levy — whose last fashion profile was an exceptionally warm psychological portrait of Lanvin's Alber Elbaz — seems not to have been so taken with Krakoff. More »
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Anne Hays noticed that the two most recent issues of the New Yorker featured almost exclusively essays and reporting by male writers. So she's returned those copies to the magazine, accompanied by a blistering open letter to the editors. More »
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• H&M's videos of its newest designer-collaborators have inspired lots of guessing, but Women's Wear Daily is reporting that one of the designers is Alber Elbaz of Lanvin. (BryanBoy agrees with this.) Lanvin for H&M? That could be glorious. [WWD]

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The 2008 Republican candidate discussing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in an email message to the New Yorker's Ariel Levy. [New Yorker] More »
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Thoughtful articles by Ariel Levy and Judith Butler explore the larger issues of sex and gender behind Caster Semenya's story — and how the mishandling of the young athlete's "gender testing" has affected her life. More »
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Ariel Levy recommends Andrea Dworkin's Heartbreak and Janet Malcolm's Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice. We'd like to add Hélène Cixous's "The Laugh of the Medusa" and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. You? [The New Yorker] More »
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In this week's New Yorker, Ariel Levy complains that feminism has turned into "identity politics," focusing on getting women in positions of power but not on what they should do when they get there. More »
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Feminists love bickering about feminism. And as more women join the conversation, it gets nastier…and better! But it's time Judge Judy kept some order. (Continued from Part 1.) More »
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• Marc Jacobs and his Brazilian fiancé, Lorenzo Martone, are set to marry next month in Provincetown. Also, Jacobs is taking the artists John Currin and Rachel Feinstein, plus Madonna, to the Met ball. [FWD]

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• Naomi Campbell stalked the runway like a thoroughbred in Mumbai for a charity show. Last time Campbell blended fashion and philanthropy, the supermodel raised over $1 million for Hurricane Katrina survivors. [Daily Mail]

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Ariel Levy's profile of Alber Elbaz, the Israeli who's helmed Lanvin since 2001, succeeds in describing the designer's grasp of women's wear — which is founded in no small part in Elbaz's own troubled self-image. More »
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In the 70s, radical lesbians traveled the country in vans, looking for a lesbian paradise. Ariel Levy has a long and fascinating piece in this week's New Yorker on these "Van Dykes" and their history. More »
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Feminists! We don't like Sarah Palin. (Other "types" of women feel similarly, according to Time.) Of course, many men viscerally dislike the gun-toting Alaskan Governor, but talking about them is boring and doesn't conjure up images of mud wrestling. Over on Radar's website, Hipster Handbook scribe Robert Lanham tries to argue that many women dislike Sarah Palin because she exposes the deep chasm between second and third wave feminists. More »
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In this week's New Yorker, Female Chauvinist Pigs scribe Ariel Levy has a profile of Cindy McCain, which does nothing to disabuse one of the superficial persona of Cindy Lou — she's a woman who comes off as a perfectly manicured heiress, who panics when her bubble of well-kept appearances is burst. Levy describes McCain as "pampered and brittle", "skittish", "wary-eyed", "fidgety" and "fussing," fragile in her size 0 St. John skirt suits. What the piece does illuminate, however, is Cindy's dissatisfaction with her role as political wife. It's almost as if Cindy McCain is a nouveau Betty Draper, bred to be the perfect wife and mother — even her sartorial choices are straight outta 1960 — who realizes after several years of neglect that her dream of the ideal family is actually more of a lonely slog through an ungilded reality. More »
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In Ariel Levy's profile of Marc Jacobs in this week's New Yorker, we see the designer as Ugly Duckling-turned -swan, shlumpy nebbish now chiseled hottie. In the past decade, Marc Jacobs has become a household name — a celebrity as known for his parade of relationships and struggles with substance abuse as for his stunning success for Louis Vuitton or his colonization of New York's West Village with his eponymous boutiques. But where he was once recognizable in the fashion world for being unkempt and bespectacled, now, as Levy puts it, "he looks like a cartoon super-hero: muscular, bronzed, shining with diamonds." It's kind of too bad that the most influential designer in America had to have such a conventional makeover. More »
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Part 2 of VH1's documentary mini-series Sex: The Revolution aired last night, and a portion of it focused on the sexual revolution's influence on feminism in the 1970s and vice versa. The doc combines archival footage of interviews, TV shows, and protest rallies and new interviews with heavyweights like Gloria Steinem, Helen Gurley Brown, Ariel Levy, Erica Jong, and Susan Brownmiller. Nearly 40 years later, Steinem is still sticking to her guns that the sexual revolution was a disservice to women because it was a movement for men to make women more sexually available to them. (How can she not realize by now that we all have natural sexual desires?) Ariel Levy, author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, offered a different (and perhaps younger?) take on the sexual revolution, asserting that it was important for feminism, because gaining equality in sexual satisfaction was a key element in the women's movement. Still, it was nice to see both sides of the argument presented. Clip above. More »
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