Jezebel: Folio

The Hills' Whitney Port Designs Clothes, Issues Backhanded Compliments

Sadie Stein — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:30:00 EDT

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Holy underminer, Batman! Whitney Port on her clothing line: "I'm developing a clothing line. It won't be like Lauren's stuff, which I loved. Mine will be a little more high-end." [Radar]
"Fashion Victims: The Catty Catalogue of Stylish Casualties From A to Z" by Michael Roberts, fashion director of Vanity Fair, sounds like it will be fascinating to the fashionistas he skewers and completely stultifying to everyone else. "Roberts has written a poem for each letter of the alphabet, for instance P for "photographer": "Why am I so fabulous? What makes me truly great? What would life be without me? It's hard to contemplate . . . No billboards straddling city streets with body parts gigantic/Nor me with glass in premiere class crisscrossing the Atlantic." The accompanying illustration is a caricature of Mario Testino. " Sounds like a gas. [NY Post]
Early estimates place the price of Cindy McCain's RNC outfit at $300,000. Well, in fairness $280,000 goes towards her three-karat diamond earrings. [US News]

Glamour editrix Cindi Leive was speaking...

Jessica G. — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:20:00 EDT

Glamour editrix Cindi Leive was speaking at the Magazine Publishers of America's 2008 Retail Conference earlier this week, and she attributed some of the success of her magazine to its "upbeat" and "positive" message. "[Our] headlines don't talk down or blame or accuse women," she said. "Most are complimentary and positive messages." Right after Bill Mickey from Folio magazine reported these comments, he snarked, "Despite the positive cover lines, Glamour's single copy sales (747,014) dropped 13.2 in the second half of 2007 compared to second half 2006, according to ABC Fas-Fax numbers." Ooooh BURN. [Folio] More »

Dear Huffington Post media critic Rachel...

Anna Holmes — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:45:00 EST

Dear Huffington Post media critic Rachel Sklar: Thanks! We love you too! Dear Folio writer Dylan Stableford: What? No mention of Redbook's Photoshop chop of Faith Hill in your Year In Magazines feature? (Fuck InTouch.) Dude, we made the Today Show! What about the black hair controversy that had Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive organizing an entire event as reparation? Nothing on that? Maybe you need to start reading the ladymags more; or, at the very least, Jezebel. [Huffington Post, Folio] More »