Jezebel: Kim France

America's Next Top Model Judge Accused Of Sexual Misconduct

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:30:00 EST

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Stylist and sometime America's Next Top Model judge Nolé Marin has been accused of sexual misconduct by a male model, who says that Marin fondled him at two photo shoots, and offered to kick-start his career in exchange for sex.

Can A Ladymag Shuffle Actually Save A Ladymag?

Irin Carmon — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:15:26 EDT

Lucky was once called the successor of Sassy, and now it's being taken over by the former editor of Jane, which was the official successor to Sassy. Will you read? (Or... will you flip through and use those little stickers?) More »

Lucky Magazine's Sexy, Glamorous "Caption Dementia"

cheryl — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:30:00 EST

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Do we have something to do with Lucky editor Kim France's nightmares? A few times, we have pointed out the severe redundancy in the captions in Lucky. (I mean, really, how many times can you use the word "glamorous" in one issue? Twelve, according to our tallies. It's like they're the Kimora Lee Simmons of Conde Nast!) So in the new March issue, Kim actually acknowledges her staff's "caption dementia" and devotes her entire Editor's Letter describing how she wakes up at 2 A.M. hoping to hit the jackpot with a new word. She adds that the editorial staff suffers to find the right word for its dear readers: "We suffer, we really suffer, so you can know which woven wedge is especially walkable." (Yay, alliteration!) And she's even giving away $1,000 to the reader who can actually do a better job "bringing the freshest language" to the magazine's four-page shoe guide. After the jump, we see if things have really changed over at Lucky in the past four months or if they still sound like our favorite broken record. More »

Real Person Featured In Lucky Confesses To Not Being All That Real

Moe — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:00:31 EST

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One of the reasons I never read Lucky is that the "real people" they choose to showcase their "foolproof outfits" never somehow cease to seem actually more unrealistically gorgeous/thin/put together than the average runway model; they're just, like, photographed less imaginatively. Witness January's Courtney Childs Lewis (pictured after the jump.) She's 25 and yet has three names already; she's consultant at Avenue A Razorfish and Haverford Alum who regularly travels to Paris on business, and yet if you ran into her in Paris you'd totally think you saw Gemma Ward. And don't get me started on all the excessively trendy/unflattering clothing choices only a hideously beautiful 25-year-old on a raw food and coke diet can pull off that she tries to foist upon the hapless Lucky-buying masses: shiny pointy ankle boots, those weird tuxedo pants, chic-formless jacket over chic-formless shirt accented by chic neckscarf...is this even a real person? Oh wait, she's on Facebook; funny that! And she has a blog... More »

'Lucky' Magazine's Subtle, Feminine, Chic, Annoyingly One-Track Mind

Anna Holmes — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:30:00 EDT

One million words in the English language, and not a single damn synonym for "luxe." Such is the eternal dilemma faced by the put-upon editors of Lucky magazine, who month after month seem to find themselves with an array of minidresses, cigarette pants and flirty little clutches too bountiful to properly describe without resorting to self-plagiarism — and memorable lines like this one, spotted by our friend Emily at Gawker on page 213 of the September issue:

The ultimate gold-pink-touch-of-plum lipcolor in a silky-smooth gloss that smells faintly— not full-on shower-gel-ishly — of raspberries".

Purple prose indeed! And though we're certainly not the first to point this out — go here, here, here and here for well-documented examples of Lucky's annoying use of language — we decided to go flip through the latest issue to find other examples insidious words or phrases on display. (Not that editor Kim France will pay any attention; she hates being told what to do!). After the jump, our highly-unscientific (meaning, these counts are not exact) tally of the major offenders. More »

'Lucky' Editor Kim France's Asian Influences, Hatred Of Authority

Moe — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:01:58 EDT

Lucky editor Kim France has always been something of an enigma to us. A Dinsosaur Jr.-worshipping Sassy editress in our youth, she later masterminded the first magazine to eliminate basically all text in favor of pictures of shit you should buy. She's spent many of the ensuing years making "No no no, no contradiction to see here!"-type excuses like "I believe women are allowed to think difficult thoughts and really superficial thoughts at the same time," and "I'm using my brain a lot more rigorously than I was when I was writing 1,000-word profiles." But does she really believe that? Our handwriting analyst Sheila Kurtz has some doubts. Likening her signature to a Chinese chop, the super-stylized stamps calligraphers use to mark their work, Sheila thinks France is hiding something behind her super-unconflicted public face... Perhaps that most of the marked-up crap in her magazine is made in China? More »

'Lucky' Magazine Readers Have A Very Good Year. The Rest Of Us? Not So Much!

Moe — Tue, 29 May 2007 11:50:47 EDT

In the space of a single year, the average reader of Lucky has seen her (or, haha, his!) household income rocket from $68,200 to $84,400, according to some highly credible research out today (and about which the publisher of Harper's Bazaar said something truly inspiring about a "shattering" of the "glass ceiling.") But apparently it's not so simple. The middle class, insinuates Lucky publisher Alexandra "Sandy" Golinkin, is defecting from the nation's magalog of record: More »

New 'Lucky' Magazine Blog Discovers $15 Replacement For Baby Powder

Moe — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:05:37 EDT

Sometimes we think about the legacy left by the iconic Sassy Magazine. By which we mean, we think (in no particular order), about Sassy founding editor Jane Pratt's eponymous Jane Magazine; the post Jane-Jane pimping out of 30-year-old virginSarah Dimuro; Pratt losing her lesbian virginity to Drew Barrymore; former Sassy intern Chloe Sevigny losing her onscreen BJ virginity to Vincent Gallo; Vincent Gallo hanging out (avuncularly? lecherously? yes!) with Jane pinup and latter-day Chloe-type "It girl" Cory Kennedy. At which point we wonder if Sassy's can be reduced to an orgy of D-list celebs too busy not-quite-penetrating one another to wash their hair. More »

Lucky Magazine Seems Insecure

Anna Holmes — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:05:25 EST

What happened to Lucky's period? Until recently, the front cover of the magazine included a certain small but definitive punctuation mark in its title logo. We rather liked this period. With it, the magazine seemed sure of itself, cocky, demanding even. You will read this magazine, and you will like it, it seemed to say. We heard the call, and we complied with it. More »