Jezebel: Kate White

Marc Jacobs Dresses Up Like A Lady

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:00:00 EST

The cover of this magazine has been out for a while, but only the full spread reveals just how well Marc works a handbag. [Fashionologie]
Trendy label Eleven Paris booked Zoe Kravitz and model Ash Stymest for its lookbook. [TLF]

32 Cosmo Covers Offer Sex, Sex & Dirty Sexy Sex

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:17:00 EST

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You've always known Cosmopolitan had a one-track mind, but this video illustrates just how much the magazine relies on one word: Sex. More »

Miley Boosts Sales Of Psychoactive Drug

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:00:00 EST

Miley Cyrus's bong hit video was not a commercial. But. Because people are stupid, sales of salvia have increased since Friday, with customers specifically asking for "the stuff Miley was smoking."

Samantha Bee Mocks Cosmo While Celebrating The Pill

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:47:00 EDT

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Last night, Samantha Bee, Cybill Shepherd, Dr. Ruth, Cosmopolitan's editor-in-chief, and a lot of rich people gathered to wish the Pill a happy 50th over steak and cocktails. It was pretty fun, especially when Samantha Bee laid into Cosmo. More »

Cosmo EIC Hopes Men Learn To Pleasure Women, Somehow

Irin Carmon — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:00:38 EDT

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Cosmo, says its editor in chief Kate White, is not "all about guy-pleasing." Except when it is. Huh? More »

Kell On Earth Future In Doubt; SJP "Can Do No Worse Than Lindsay Lohan," Says Fashionista

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 EDT

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Will Kell On Earth be renewed? "I don't really know what's going on," says Kelly Cutrone, and Bravo would not reveal the show's future. But Cutrone says she's already signed "a major deal" for a scripted network TV venture. [PRNewser]

Kate Moss Doesn't Worry, Is Happy; Will Lady Gaga Be On The Cover Of Cosmo?

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:30:00 EST

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Kate Moss has beauty advice: "Moisturise, sleep — and happiness: that's a beauty secret. I know I look different when I'm happy." Perhaps because you can't bottle feeling good, she'd like instead to expand into a line of cosmetics. [ToL]

Self Editor: Photoshopped Mags Just Giving Women What They Want

Anna North — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EDT

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Self editor Lucy Danziger (pictured) is still making excuses for Photoshopping pop-star Kelly Clarkson. The latest: digital manipulation is simply what readers want! More »

Ralph Lauren Fires Photoshopped Model For Being "Too Fat"

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:00:00 EDT

Filippa Hamilton, the 23-year-old model who was Photoshopped into a stick insect by Ralph Lauren, has revealed that the brand — which later apologised for the image — quietly fired her for being overweight. More »

"Let Them Eat Cake," Says Cosmo Editor-in-Chief

Anna North — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:45:00 EST

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"Lately, thanks to the economy, you've probably been feeling more stressed out than usual," says Cosmo Editor-in-Chief Kate White in February's issue. Luckily, she has some totally relatable advice: More »

More Cover Lies

Jessica G. — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:40:00 EDT

"Playing yourself on reality television isn't to our reader the level of accomplishment that you need to have on the cover of Cosmo." — Kate White, Cosmo editor-in-chief, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal article "Selling Lauren Conrad" on March 21st of this year. [WSJ] More »

MagHag

Jessica G. — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:45:00 EDT

What do you say to people who say Cosmopolitan is anti-feminist? The New York Review of Magazines asks EIC Kate White. "People from the outside usually judge Cosmo that way, but the reader never does. So many of our readers write in to tell us about how empowered they are. That's what matters." I guess empowering American women to be sexually erotic is of paramount virtue to Cosmo readers, as White adds, "Readers don't come to Cosmo to learn about the genital mutilation of women in the Third World." When asked about her forebear, Helen Gurley Brown, White admits that she never really read Cosmo when Brown was running the show, and that she feels no pressure to be like the former editor because "our reader doesn't care about the past. She's all about the here and now." As long as the here and now doesn't include mutilated genitals! [NYRM] More »

Cosmo Dares You To Drip Hot Candle Wax Down His "Back Door"

cheryl — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:40:00 EDT

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We were SUPER scared when we saw the cover of this month's Cosmo. Not because that perfectly-centered pendant on Carmen Electra's chest looks like some sort of surveillance device planted by malevolent aliens! No, it was the word "sexy." Where is it? Aside from two instances in which it modifyies the words "hair" and "confidence," Cosmo's cover is starkly, notably, indisputably absent of the word "sex." What does mean? Is ita reflection on the chastened economy? The Hezbollah victory in Lebanon? We immediately flipped it open to find out. And mercifully enough, we were virtually BARRAGED with articles about S-E-X. One story suggested dripping hot candle wax down your boyfriend's asshole. Another said you should hide in a room with his phone, then call it, and surprise him by being NAKED when he comes to answer it. Cosmo had us thinking so dirty we were in the middle of a riveting story about how to use a curling iron when we started thinking sexily about ramming it up his "back door." Click the jump for more dirty thoughts! More »

This Week We Discovered Sexual Fucking

Jessica — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:30:00 EST

Cosmo EIC Kate White taught us about fudge but appeared uncomfortable with discussions about fudge-packing.

Blinged-Out Bazaar Pisses On Line Between Advertising, Editorial

Jessica — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:40:00 EST

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For a special run of their December issue, Harper's Bazaar has bedecked the word "Fabulous" on 5,000 covers with 258 amber-toned Swarovski crystals. This is the fourth year in a row that Bazaar has partnered with Swarovski for its December issue, and mag pundits are wondering if the crystal company's sponsorship blurs the line between advertising and editorial. Bazaar's clearly sees that line as infinitely malleable, as Anna pointed out in this month's Harper's (Bazaar) Index: "Number of advertisements for women's fragrances in the December issue of Bazaar: 27. Number of those fragrances advertised that also made it into "editorial" copy in the magazine: 11." But Bazaar isn't the only culprit in the increasingly advertorial content plaguing women's magazines. More »

How Cosmo Could Liven Up Its Relationship With "Sexy Sex"

Moe — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:30:00 EST

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The first Cosmo of the new year is out! And it's touting "Sexy Sex." Sexy Sex! That sure beats "Sexual Fucking," which we suggested as a cover line after editor-in-chief Kate White thought up "Erotic Sex" for August. Anyway! In pointing out how redundant Cosmo sex tips seem to have gotten after all these years...do we risk sounding REDUNDANT ourselves? Yes! Okay, but seriously, page 99:

Get in the doggie-style position—you on your knees and your guy kneeling behind you.

Um, thanks! Anyway suffice it to say the story advertised, "7 Best New Sex Tricks," is full of all sorts of hot new ideas — sex in the shower! sex in a sleeping bag! sex using his dick to "stimulate your clitoris"! covering your hand with a fishnet stocking and giving him a hand job (don't forget the lube!) — that um, maybe...suggest Cosmo is in sorta a "romance rut" (see page 92) with sex tips. It needs to rediscover that sexy sexiness that made it so sexing sexy in the first place! So, just for Kate, we scoured old issues of the magazine until we came upon a particularly naughty — NSFW! — example from April 1977... More »

Talking Hot Fudge And Hot Sex With Cosmo Editor Kate White

Jessica — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:00:41 EST

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Last night Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Kate White held a chat at the 92nd Street Y. Did you know she was once a waitress at a Howard Johnson's? It was there that she met a very naughty co-worker who let her in on a secret: sometimes, to get what you want, you have to break the rules. For instance, as employees they were allowed free ice cream from the cafeteria at lunch time, but they weren't allowed the hot fudge, cherries or any other trappings of the toppings bar. Nevertheless, this friend always somehow managed to sneak into the employee cafeteria with a full-fledged sundae. "How do you sneak it past the managers?" Kate once got the courage to ask. And there, right before her eyes, the friend revealed her big secret to having it all; hot fudge, whipped cream and the rest... More »

What The Crap Is Going On With This Month's Cosmo?

Moe — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:30:55 EDT

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Sometimes reading Cosmo is how we'd imagine reading the newspaper in an Eastern bloc country in the sixties, only instead of being a mouthpiece of the party and tool of the state, Cosmo feels like the mouthpiece of a bunch of tools at state school who party too much. So anyway, as with reading Pravda or the China Daily, a critical read of Cosmo requires careful analysis of linguistic nuances, penmanship, institutional history and a lot of other techniques we have in recent months become too damn bored to apply. But the November issue grabbed us by the proverbial balls! (Ha ha, and yes, obligatory "his balls are fragile" sex tip on page 106 next to obligatory "reverse cowgirl" reference.) For starters, who the fuck is that blonde on the cover? Is she famous? Lacking a hand-written questionnaire for us to submit to forensics — a tactic we had heard from a Hearst publicist had not exactly ingratiated Jezebel to Cosmo — we concluded "no." Weirder, she doesn't even seem to be a famous model, or even a particularly pretty one, especially in the "aggressively conventional" sense of pretty we are used to seeing on the cover of Cosmo. She's got sharp features and blunt-cut bangs! And an expression on her face that seems to say, "I am losing patience with this retardedness." And guess what! Inside there were signs others at Cosmo may be as well. Signs of struggle: More »

Cosmopolitan's Date Rape Panel: There Are No Shades Of "Gray" When Vomit Is Involved

Jessica G. — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:00:00 EDT

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Remember last month when Moe wrote about gray rape after casual sex avenger and Washington Post scribe Laura Sessions Stepp published that inflammatory article about it in Cosmopolitan? Well, this morning at John Jay College, Cosmo invited Ms. Sessions Stepp, along with legal experts, psychology professors and anti-violence activists, to discuss and define the concept of "gray rape." There had initially been calls for a protest by rape activism groups, but as far as we could tell, no one showed up to storm the auditorium. Expertly-coiffed Court TV talking head Ashleigh Banfield moderated the morass. Ostensibly the purpose of the the panel was to ask the question, "Is there ever a gray area between consent and denial?" What the panel actually established was that no should always mean no. Revolutionary! More »

30 Years Of 'Cosmopolitan': It's All About Sex & Hair

Anna Holmes — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:30:00 EDT

We love bitching and moaning over the crap-ass content found in the major American women's magazines: The airbrushing; the crazy sex tips; the purple prose; the inherent dishonesty; the expensive shit. But were women's magazines always this bad? We procured copies of October issues of Cosmopolitan representing four different decades and three different editors: Helen Gurley Brown, Bonnie Fuller and the magazine's current editor, Kate White. Over the course of the next few days, we'll be comparing the three older issues with the current issue of the magazine, marveling at the differences/similarities in sex stories, dating tips, beauty advice and advertising. First up: A glance at the covers. After the jump, check out thirty years of come-hither looks and over-the-top cover lines on such topics as Barbara Walters and "blended" orgasms. More »

'Cosmo' Introduces: The "Blended" Orgasm

Moe — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:00:44 EDT

Oh Jesus, Cosmo is back. And so full of information! There's "4 Things Every Guy Keeps Private" ("We masturbate — a lot") and "5 Places Sexual Predators Look For Women" (All the places you go to everyday, OMG feel thankful you were only "gray raped.") But the cover line that most piqued our interest was, "THE BLENDED ORGASM" (Inside: "Your new slogan may become: 'I'll take mine blended!'") (Thanks I'll settle for "up"!) So anyway: what the fuck is a "blended" orgasm? A Brangelina orgasm? An orgasm you get after a visit to the tiki bar at Club Med? Well Liz, 24, describes it like this:

Every nerve from head to toe perks up. I reach a point where I feel like I am going to burst, and then the release is so gratifying.

Gratifying, eh? So it's an orgasm that turns you into a total dork? We read on.. More »

'Cosmopolitan' Editor Kate White: Infuriatingly Even-Keeled

Anna Holmes — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:30:00 EDT

The success of the magazine she oversees has long been contingent on exploiting female anxieties (Shouldn't he have asked you to marry him yet? Maybe it's because you're not a good enough cuddler? Or because you talk too much? But it's probably because you can't give a blow-job to save your life!) and then 'solving' them, but Cosmopolitan's Kate White is no Nervous Nellie herself. In fact, according to graphologist Sheila Kurtz, unlike her predecessors at the magazine — the famously dysfunctional Bonnie Fuller and the self-hating Helen Gurley Brown — White is as conventional and sensible as her name suggests. (Maybe that's why, when she's not cooking up back-bruising new sexual positions for America's masochistic young women, she writes mystery novels?). An analysis of White's annoyingly white-bread signature, after the jump. More »

'Cosmo' Editor Kate White Illustrates Why It's Hard To Actually Hate 'Cosmo'

Moe — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:02:47 EDT

Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Kate White takes life as seriously as we would if we edited the magazine. For one, she got started in the industry by winning an essay contest in Glamour, and responded to a question about "goals" by admitting she had none, and used her job as an excuse to ask a local anchorman she liked on a date (The story: "Eligible Bachelors". The man: Her now-husband). Cosmopolitan isn't even her full-time job; she also writes pretty popular mystery novels about a tabloid reporting detective named "Bailey Wiggins" that sound totally cheesy. And judging from a few interviews with her we came across today, we get the sense that Kate White went to the USA Network mystery show school of how to be simultaneously idiotic and intriguing. Some gems: 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]