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femme-bot: The Gap has come under fire from a Christian group that accuses it of failing to use the word "Christmas" in its holiday advertising and mailings Why... more »
JerkoftheMonth: Oh, if only Taylor Momsen looked like this, too. #dakotafanningteenvogue more »
Snacky_Onassis: ...and now to illustrate what a normal 15-year old she is, we will put her in the highest heels and old lady leopard print dresses! #dakotafanningteen... more »
PoisonPixie: How do they know that child actors will grow into svelte beauties with legs up to here? Do they do genetic testing or something? #dakotafanningteenvogue more »
History Major: I might be in the minority but I don't think she looks "sexed up", "slutty", "provocative" or "old" in her pictures. She looks like a lot of 15 year o... more »
Katxyz: She just breezed on through the awkward stage, didn't she? Lucky her. #dakotafanningteenvogue more »
Mrs. Stephen Fry: She's so pretty. #dakotafanningteenvogue more »
berlitzfrench: Dakota, tell your agent to say "NO" to any Tom Cruise marriage proposals. You know you're on his radar after this photo shoot, right? #dakotafanningte... more »
cand86: I still wish I could find a video clip of that "The Soup" clip of her slow-motion laughing with her eyes glowing like a demon. It was hilariously evi... more »
KelseyElle: I get that she is "a normal teenager" by hollywood standards but she is by no means a "normal" teenager. Varsity cheerleaders and homecoming queens ar... more »

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Sophie Théallet Wins 200K; Lindsay Not Doing Jewelry Line
- Designer Sophie Théallet has won the $200,000 Vogue/CFDA Fashion Fund Award. "Thank you for making my American dreams come true," said she. [Style.com]
- Skating at an outdoor rink in London, Lily Cole knocked over a small child. [Daily Mail]
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Dakota Fanning: Just A Normal Teen With Custom Designer Boots
Dakota Fanning is on the cover of the December/January issue of Teen Vogue, and inside she wears designer clothes and looks nothing like the little kid from Uptown Girls. She's a teenager now! But she's normal. Typical, even. For instance: More »
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Fashion Photographer Steven Klein Has Done Blackface Before
This ten-page Italian Vogue editorial from February, 2006, features two Caucasian models made up to look like black women. The photographer? A certain Steven Klein. More »
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Anna Wintour Attempts To Make Friends With Teenage Girls
In an interview for The Teen Vogue Handbook, Anna Wintour is asked: "Describe your typical day." She replies: "There is no typical day. Every day is different, and that's why it's fun." Wait: Did Nuclear Wintour just say FUN? More »
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Black Models Tell Teen Vogue How Hard It Is To Be Black Models
Teen Vogue has not one but two black models on the November cover. Inside, Chanel Iman says of Jourdan Dunn: "I could sit here and tell you, 'I love Jourdan! We've always been the best of friends!' But we haven't." More »
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Teen Dreams — And Nightmares — At Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party
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 »
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Fashion Jobs Are Not All They're Cracked Up To Be
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 »
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Taylor Doesn't Take Enough Credit For Inspiring Legions To Join "Team Jacob"
Taylor Lautner comes off as incredibly humble in his interview in Teen Vogue's October 2009 issue, especially considering that a two-second shot of his bare chest in the New Moon trailer made every girl at the MTV Movie Awards shriek. More »
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Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality
- The details of Fashion's Night Out — aka Anna Wintour's Plan To Save Retail — have been announced. Over 700 stores in all five boroughs will be participating in events that range from sewing circles to cook-ins to rock shows:
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Vogue Might Get Makeover; Lily's Chanel Ads Are Out
- Change! Stately old American Vogue is apparently seeking to revamp itself. Says Wayne Sterling, the mag wants "a new circle of models, an influx of fresh, young photographers and a desire for 'unpredictability' in the stories." Unpredictability. In Vogue. [TI]
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Betsey Wants To Be "Like Ralph!"; Beyonce, Mom Do Sasha Fierce For Deréon
- Like many 66-year-olds we know, Betsey Johnson is eyeing retirement. "I should be retired. I'm basically screwing up because I'm not retired. I'd like to go in four days a month, something like that," says the designer.
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Michelle Obama Loves Fashion Again; Beckham Brings In New Designers For Denim Line
- Michelle Obama may have skipped the CFDAs, but she'll celebrate the National Design Awards at the White House on July 24. The winners, chosen by the Smithsonian and including Francisco Costa, will participate in events around Washington. [WWD]
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Emma Watson Is Not Normal
Harry Potter star Emma Watson is not your average 19-year-old. She's friends with Karl Lagerfeld, calls Chanel her "lucky brand," and has modeled for Burberry. And in this issue of Teen Vogue, she wears high-fashion in front of a castle. More »
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Analyzing The Absurdist Art In The New Teen Vogue
Miley Cyrus wears virginal white and poses with a pale pony on the cover of Teen Vogue's May issue, but inside, the editors have gone goo goo for Dada. More »
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At 16, Miley Cyrus Is Still A Girl, And Yet A Woman
Two Conde Nast titles feature Miley Cyrus this month. In Teen Vogue Miley's a wild child who thinks dating rules are dumb (but doesn't break them). In Glamour the "girl-woman" is openly dating a 20-year-old. More »
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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Will Stay Home From G20 Meeting; Pamela Anderson Wants You To Wear Her Clothes
- Packing for tedious summits as a political wife must be that much harder knowing that Michelle Obama will be there, ready to rock some gorgeous outfit at the drop of a discussion paper. [Telegraph]
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Prom Dress Charity In South Central Feeling Recession's Pinch
An L.A. organization that matches underprivileged girls with surplus designer dresses and shoes just in time for prom is facing the twin problems of increasing need and decreasing donations this spring. More »
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Alert: Ladymags Down
O, The Oprah Magazine; Redbook; Teen Vogue; Glamour; Harper's Bazaar; W; Marie Claire, and Allure all reported double-digit declines in the second half of 2008. Which will survive 2009? [WWD]
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13 Horrifying Images From The New Teen Vogue
Wow: The March issue of Teen Vogue already hit mailboxes, and there's some scary stuff inside. Let's take a look, shall we? More »
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What Recession? Teen Vogue Readers Need An Allowance
Recession, schmesmession! The February issue of Teen Vogue encourages you to drop oodles of cash on shredded jeans and canvas tote bags. Get Mommy's credit card: Your piddling babysitting dough won't be enough. More »
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Teen Vogue Makes Gossip Girl's Patch-Wearing Little J Pretend To Exercise
Teen Vogue sent an intern blogger to "work out" with Gossip Girl's Taylor Momsen, and the staged pictures are delightfully awkward! More »
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Leighton Meester Doesn't Wear Headbands... Ever
Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester comes off as more than a little dull and publicist-controlled in her interview in Teen Vogue's February 2009 issue. But is she more annoying than Blake Lively?
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Black Models: Teen Vogue Goes Where Vogue Will Not
The new December/January issue of Teen Vogue has Twilight's Kristen Stewart on the cover, and inside, a "Night Shift" photo shoot with not one but two black models. Big sister Vogue includes two black models — and Indian model Lakshmi Menon — in a jewelry story this month, and there are black models scattered through the magazine. But everyone knows that the big "get" for a model is a multiple-page fashion spread. Plus, Vogue has a way of making everyone look haughty and bored. In Teen Vogue, the two young ladies in the "Night Shift" are psyched! Alive! Happy! For some reason, even though I can barely afford anything they're wearing, I love them. Images after the jump. More »
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Teen Vogue: Be A "Gender Bender" With A Blazer & Cornrows
The November issue of Teen Vogue has the words "Pretty in Punk" on the cover, but the closest thing you'll find inside is a peculiar, joyless "Gender Benders" fashion spread. The concept? Mixing pretty dresses with structured jackets, "tomboy" shoes and playful purses. Sounds fun! Unfortunately, the results are, well, bizarre. Confusing, even. And it's hard to focus on the clothes, because they've given the pretty, blonde, Caucasian model cornrows. Gender bending? If you're channeling Latrell Sprewell, perhaps. Check out a few of the pictures from the shoot, after the jump. More »
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High Culture, Low Fashion Reigned At Teen Vogue's Young Hollywood Party
Last night, young Hollywood paid what was probably its first and last visit to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for Teen Vogue's Annual Young Hollywood Party. The Disney crew was out in full force: Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez, plus Rumer Willis (obvs), Lost's Emilie de Ravin, Emma Roberts, and a Jonas Brothers' concert worth of starlets. The clothes? Let's just say, more "Teen" than "Vogue." The Good, The Bad, & The Real Ugly — after the jump! More »
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This Week We Discovered You Can't Spell Palin Without PAIN
- We've gotten a lot of emails this week whining about the excess of Palin coverage. But you know what Palin hates more than anything — whiners! If you whine, the terrorists win…Or something. Anyway, check out what Judge Judy thinks about Sarah Palin.
- Also check out what American Wife author Curtis Sittenfeld thinks about Sarah Palin!
- Don't forget about comparing her future potential reign to Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale!
- With all of this nonsense, we almost forgot it was FASHION WEEK! Check out Dodai's Project Runway Bryant Park show live blog and the rest of our fashion week posts.
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Shun Your Friends & Learn A Cool New Eating Disorder In Teen Vogue!
The October "Young Hollywood" issue of Teen Vogue has loads of stars inside — eyebrow-wielding coverboy Zac Efron, Leighton Meester, Kat Dennings, etc. But if you're paging through the back of the magazine, you'll find a couple of giant, extremely disturbing diet-related quotes, which ultimately lead to a story about a "new" eating disorder. The first pull quote: More »
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September Smackdown: Cosmopolitan Vs. Teen Vogue
Today, in the last of our matchups in the September "expensive shit" smackdown, we bring you a battle of the generations. Cosmopolitan was throwing out her back with new acrobatic sex positions when Teen Vogue was just a twinkle in Anna Wintour's eye. But can even the best-selling women's magazine in the world stand up to a snotty adolescent with unfettered access to Mama Vogue's credit cards? Will the Dara Torres of ladymags beat out her teenage competition, or will Vogue's Satanic offspring finally manage to take down her slutty 122-year-old cougar aunt? Find out after the jump, and check back later today for the winner of our Expensive Shit Charity Case contest. More »
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Not Much Has Changed: The Faces In September Ladymags Are Overwhelmingly White
Nothing quite says "It's August" like sifting through the pounds and pounds of perfume-scented and white-washed pages from the September issues of the major women's magazines. Sure, Italian Vogue came out with an "All Black" issue in July, but even that success probably won't motivate the editors of American women's magazines into showing a little diversity, especially if the September issues are any indication. After the jump, check out our roundup of the models of color in the ads and fashion spreads of the September ladymags, where, not surprisingly, Asian models are scarce, black models sell cleaning products, and Caucasians rule. More »
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Teen Vogue's Crazy Beautiful Shoot: What's Your Damage?
The September issue of Teen Vogue has a makeup feature called "Crazy Beautiful." And perhaps unintentionally, the model showcased looks a little… crazy. Is she supposed to be making us imagine which mental illness symptoms she has? Probably not. And yet. Three pictures, with three diagnoses, after the jump. More »
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5 Possible Reasons Why Women's Magazine Sales Are Plummeting
Over on Portƒolio's site today, Jeff Bercovici reports that many of the major women's magazines sales are down for the first half of the year. And not just by a little bit: We're talking double-digit numbers. The newsstand average of Glamour dropped 10%; Marie Claire fell 11%, Vogue and Teen Vogue both slumped 15% and poor O, The Oprah Magazine tumbled 16%. We can't claim to know why these publications aren't doing well and losing hundreds of thousands of readers. But we can venture an educated guess! Some theories, after the jump. More »
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The September issues of women's magazines are historically the thickest and most anticipated of the year, filled with a particularly frenzied orgy of materialism. WWD has the scoop on the covergirls for those issues, which will hit newsstands in late August. Keira Knightley will grace the cover of Vogue for the second time in under two years — the fourth time in total — even though her last cover from June '07 (pictured) didn't sell well. Glamour has Penélope Cruz, W is featuring Kate Hudson, In Style will highlight Uma Thurman, Allure has Carrie Underwood, Teen Vogue has Vanessa Hudgens, Elle has Jessica Simpson, and finally, Cosmo will show Blake Lively. (The teen queen's presence in Cosmo confirms our suspicion that the magazine is not actually geared towards grown women). [WWD, sub. req.]
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To Splurge, Or To Steal? For Teen Vogue, There Is No Question
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 »
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Teen Vogue Gives Summer Olympians A Sliiight Makeover
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 »
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Retraction: Agyness Deyn Is Offically Actually Awesome
- Breaking news: a Telegraph profile today inspired me to finally watch the Agyness Deyn music video. It is generic and derivative and cynically targeted at the aging Britpop nostalgists who write blogs and I fucking love it. Oh man, and I don't even hate myself for this. Embedded after the jump. [Telegraph]
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Alexandra Michael Is About 28 Pounds Too Fat For Modeling

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!
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Lindsay Lohan To Share Her Inimitable Leggings Style
- Yeah, Lindsay Lohan's line of leggings? I know what you are thinking: it goes without saying that the world should not be robbed of the opportunity to purchase the fruit of Lindsay Lohan's design skills, but leggings? What can you really do with leggings? Isn't the whole point of leggings is that they are not really "designed"? Well friends, as someone who went to Catholic school, I can only say that leggings, like life, are all about the tiny, generally imperceptible differentiating details (such as built-in kneepads?) [TheLifeFiles]
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Cosmo Girl Has The Spiciest — And Smartest — Advice When It Comes To Teen Sex
Down Under, two of the major teen magazines, rivals Dolly and Girlfriend, are banding together to fight government suggestions that the magazines come with "audience age recommendations," because of the sexually-explicit nature of their question-and answer-sections. According to the Daily Telegraph, "Tasmanian Senator Stephen Parry said he was concerned readers as young as 11 were writing in for answers to questions on anal and oral sex." (Because if they don't read the magazine, their questions will magically disappear, right?) Dolly editor Gemma Crisp told a government inquiry, "We see it as a service. It's our responsibility to provide the correct information rather than them (readers) saying to their 15-year-old friend, 'my boyfriend wants me to do this, how do I deal with it?'" We decided to see what kind of advice the American teen magazines are giving their readership. A look at sex coverage on the websites of Teen Vogue, Cosmo Girl, Elle Girl, YM and Seventeen, after the jump. More »
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The Hills: It's Sad When Coworkers You Love Have To Leave

On last night's episode of The Hills, Whitney said goodbye to Lauren and the rest of her Teen Vogue family as she prepared to venture from behind-the-scenes assisting work to the glamorous world of celebrity styling. Understandably, Lauren was sad about losing her favorite officemate, but she — and the rest of us — wish Whitney good luck in her new endeavors! Clip above.
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Prom Season Brings Out The Best In Bad Taste
Ah, can you smell it? Sticky backseats of limos, overpriced steak dinners, cheap corsages, cheaper perfume, and lost virginity: Yes, prom season is among us. (Though to be frank: I went to the prom both years with a gay guy, so my virginity was plenty intact the morning after, but that's another story.) Prom season = prom magazines, so this weekend, I pored over the pages of Teen Vogue's prom issue, the special edition CosmoGirl! Prom, Teen Prom and Your Prom to discover what "trends" they are pushing this season. After the jump, prepare to be terrified by the best (aka - worst) stories of Prom Season 2008. More »

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