Jezebel: New Yorker

Not Even Amy Poehler Can Look Away From Hoarders

Cassie Murdoch — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:30:00 EDT

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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 »

Facebook's Top Female Exec & "Girl Questions"

Irin Carmon — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:00:00 EDT

After a talk Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg gave at Harvard Business School, she saw a difference between the women and the men. The men asked about business; the women asked "girl questions." More »

Pioneer Woman Makes Blogging Look Like Paradise

Anna North — Mon, 02 May 2011 16:15:00 EDT

She hasn't quite got the old-media fame of mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, but Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond is making headlines — and cash. What makes her life on the ranch so popular with readers? More »

Major Mag Editors Address The Dearth Of Female Bylines

Elissa Strauss — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:50:00 EST

After a post last month about the gender disparity in magazine publishing, which was followed by VIDA's much more thorough and ultimately conclusive study, I, perhaps naively, expected to see a comment or two from the publications about the roots of this imbalance. Then weeks passed, and, well, basically nothing. For a while I thought that perhaps it was time to give this up. They had all likely seen the numbers; I didn't want to come off whiny. But then my curiosity remained, and I figured it couldn't hurt to ask. More »

Luckily For Tina Fey, Plenty Of People Do Want To Fuck Her

Irin Carmon — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:26:12 EST

"The deﬁnition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore." -Tina Fey, in The New Yorker (sub. only) in a relatively earnest take on motherhood, anxiety, and Hollywood. More »

Where Are The Women At Highbrow Magazines?

Elissa Strauss — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:48:00 EST

Whenever I see "best of" lists, award finalists and even table of contents, I immediately scan them to see how women fared. And I regularly complain to my husband about the lopsided male-to-female ratio in the bylines of highbrow magazines. More »

Gisele Bündchen Seen Kissing a Dude Who Is Not Tom Brady

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:39:00 EDT

The mystery man Gisele Bündchen was seen canoodling with at a Paris Vogue party is believed to be a New York art dealer — and ex-boyfriend of Bündchen's fellow Brazilian model Ana Beatriz Barros — named Helly Nahmad. Ahem. [Racked]

Courtney Love Wants To Write For The New Yorker

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:00:46 EDT

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She boasted that though she's "the Tolstoy of text [messages]," she's also writing a story "that The New Yorker, by the way, does not know is coming...I want to be published. It's time—I'm 46." Editors, you've been warned. More »

Andre Leon Talley Takes A Spill

Sadie Stein — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:30:00 EDT

Poor Voguester Andre Leon Tally took a spill at the Costello Tagliapietra show! Seems his seatmates suddenly rose en masse, "so the bench acted like a seesaw...He fell onto his side, and security immediately pulled him to his feet." [NYP] More »

What's Wrong With To Kill A Mockingbird?

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:00:00 EDT

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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's masterpiece of children's literature, it appears some critics are itching to provide a corrective to all the millions-sold adulation. What's the matter with liking To Kill A Mockingbird? Well. More »

Fashion Blogger Tavi Gevinson On Terry Richardson, Cute Shoes, & Generation Y

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:20:00 EDT

Teen blogger Tavi Gevinson spoke this morning to a packed room of industry professionals, reporters, and marketers about the "unpredictability" of Generation Y. They wanted to know how the generation's personal qualities would make young people liable to buy things. More »

Sight At The Museum: Celeb-Spotting With Marina Abramović

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:00:00 EDT

In her work "The Artist is Present," Marina Abramović invites any museum-goer to sit face to face with her, in silence, for as long as the museum-goer wants. So art is great and everything — wait, is that Sharon Stone? More »

Angelina's Old Modeling Pictures For Sale; Media Piles Onto Richardson Allegations

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:20:00 EDT

Pictures of a 15-year-old Angelina Jolie modeling for photographer Harry Langdon will be auctioned in California on Friday. [Vogue UK]
Karl Lagerfeld dressed Simone Veil in Chanel for her induction into the Académie Française. [WWD]

McQueen: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

Jessica Coen — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:40:00 EDT

The New Yorker pays unspoken tribute to the late Alexander McQueen: The cover illustration is reminiscent of the designer's dramatics; inside is a previously unpublished photo taken by Platon in 1996, when fashion's "enfant terrible" was just 27. [New Yorker] More »

Women & Children First: Targeting Women In Earthquake's Aftermath

LatoyaPeterson — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:40:00 EST

''Bringing food into a situation where people are desperate is always chaotic,'' says Chris Weber of World Vision, one of the organizations tasked with distributing the wave of donated supplies. Is handing aid over to women the answer? More »

Gone Tea-Bagging: A Field Guide To America's New Patriots

LatoyaPeterson — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:20:00 EST

Who exactly are these elusive tea partiers we keep hearing so much about? More »

Rodarte Sisters Burn Fabric For Fun, And Other Facts From This Week's New Yorker

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:40:00 EST

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Amanda Fortini's profile of Kate and Laura Mulleavy — the Pasadena sisters behind Rodarte — examines the duo's relationship with middlebrow fashion bible Vogue. You know, the magazine that made them subsist on 1,300 calories a day for four months. More »

"Real" Women Have Curves; Miuccia Prada Wants Models

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:00:00 EST

Ardent feminist ex-communist designer Miuccia Prada is handling the costumes for the Met's upcoming production of Verdi's opera Attila. But according to an anonymous source on set, Prada has balked at dressing anyone who couldn't fit into a sample size. More »

Listicle Reveals Top 10 Political-Sartorial Moments Of The Year

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:30:00 EST

Michelle Obama's royal cardigan incident, Sarah Palin's glasses, Aretha Franklin's hat, and Sonia Sotomayor's judicial collar — "Oliver Cromwell meets Whistler's Mother," in the New Yorker's inimitable parlance — all make this list of 2009's memorable fashion statements. [New Yorker] More »

“You Write Dialogue For A Guy And Then Change The Name.”

Sadie Stein — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:00:00 EDT

The lengthy profile of James Cameron in the latest New Yorker confirms a long-held and heretofore unjustified suspicion that James Cameron is, in fact, a complete and total ass. More »

Rachel Maddow Fibs At New Yorker Festival!

Sadie Stein — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:40:00 EDT

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"I'm not very pretty...I am what I am. I look like a dude. I wear boring jackets. I have a big nose. I have short hair. No one is going to mix me up with a Fox Business anchor." [NYer] More »

R.I.P. Richard Merkin

Sadie Stein — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:30:00 EDT

Richard Merkin, artist, illustrator and "professional dandy," has died at 70. Eulogized Tom Wolfe, "He was the greatest of that breed, the Artist Dandy...Like Dali, he had one of the few remaining Great Mustaches in the art world." [NYT] More »

I Shoes My Choice! The Pursuit of Zappiness

Kate Harding — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:20:00 EDT

Leading online shoe retailer Zappo's has cheerful employees, satisfied, loyal customers, and a C.E.O. who doesn't see himself as an irreplaceable demigod. So naturally, people wonder if it's some kind of cult. Alexandra Jacobs investigates for the new New Yorker. More »

Amelia Earhart Flew. She Wasn't An Angel.

Sadie Stein — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:40:00 EDT

A fascinating profile in the New Yorker tries to bring Amelia Earhart down to Earth. More »

Burberry Stays On Top By Keeping Soap Opera Stars Away From Its Styles

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:00:00 EDT

Burberry designer Christopher Bailey — a working-class Yorkshire lad — is profiled at length by the New Yorker's Lauren Collins. Bailey is notable not only for overseeing a house that was until recently considered moribund, but for being unusually nice. More »

Charlie Brown Finds Balance; Controversial Calvin Klein Billboard Replaced

TatianaTheAnonymousModel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EDT

How cool are these Charlie Brown New Balance sneakers? Cool enough that we wish they weren't just for kids. [WWD]
A London artist has created Kate Moss and Agyness Deyn paper dolls which look frighteningly like the real thing. [Pipeline.Refinery29]

What I Learned In Creative Writing Class

Anna North — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:40:00 EDT

In this week's New Yorker (the Summer Fiction issue), Louis Menand asks if creative writing can or should be taught at universities. As a recent (two weeks ago!) graduate of a university creative writing program, I had to weigh in. More »

Dovima With Everything

TatianaTheAnonymousModel — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:30:00 EDT

Richard Avedon disowned his fashion work in later life — but New York's International Center of Photography is mounting a retrospective exhibit of his fashion photography. This slideshow ought to heighten everyone's excitement. [New Yorker] More »

Lanvin Designer Feels Overweight; Makes Others Feel Beautiful (NSFW)

TatianaTheAnonymousModel — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:40:00 EDT

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 »

Courtney Love Tells PETA To F**k Off

Sadie Stein — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:30:00 EST

Courtney Love vs. PETA: "Yep, I'm a fur whore... I've been very, very good for a very, very long time, and this ermine is ancient and tattered and feels like it belonged to a Queen." [Daily Express]

Today's New Yorker Book Bench takes on Janes...

Anna North — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:20:00 EDT

Today's New Yorker Book Bench takes on Janes in Love, a graphic novel about a group of badass, artistic teenagers all named Jane. The sequel to The P.L.A.I.N. Janes, Janes in Love takes a candid and nonjudgmental view of teen relationships, sexuality, and shark attacks. Sounds pretty awesome to us, but it's got poor Book Bench fanning its face with its white leather gloves. BB warns "they don't call them graphic novels for nothing," then offers up several panels where the characters say "bitch," "butch," and "tits." Heavens! (We should note that, hand-wringing aside, BB did actually like the book.) More »

The New Yorker On Obama: When Satire Isn't Satirical

Megan Carpentier — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:00:00 EDT

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At left, the cover of this week's New Yorker, which features writer Ryan Lizza's take on Barack Obama's early years in Chicago, an article that is somehow totally related to this supposedly satirical illustration portraying Michelle and Barack as Muslim/Black Power extremists who worship Osama bin Laden and burn American flags and fist-bump and trade in their nice shoes for Birkenstocks and combat boots like I did in high school. With Moe out, I long-distance call our official Jezebel pass-around Charlie, Spencer Attackerman, to discuss the cover, the article, Spencer's beef with Mr. Lizza, and the divinity that is spätzle and beer. More »

Vanity Fair And The New Yorker Expose The Clandestine Operations That Sabotaged Iran, Hillary's Wardrobe

Moe — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:30:00 EDT

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Hola, patriots! We have a treat for you today at Crappy Hour: we read two really long stories for you, Gail Sheehy's first rough draft of the demise of Hillaryland in Vanity Fair and Seymour Hersh's investig-planation of what exactly your tax dollars are doing in Iran. And oh my goodness, the stuff we knew that we tried to forget knowing that, no no no, really just happened! Like how Hillary and Bill tried to pressure Obama into making her his running mate. Or how Admiral William Silver Fox Fallon quit because he was sick of hearing about the CIA funding a bunch of druggies and Al Qaeda surrogates just because they support "regime change" in Iran. Or how Hillary stopped paying Patti Solis Doyle. But anyway, we dug through and found some juicy revelations. Like the identity of the undermining aide behind Hillary's terrible chunky jewelry and ill-fitting pantsuits! (Although not that of the hot guy standing behind her in all the pictures. Yet!) Anyway, that, Al Qaeda in Algeria, a few memory lane changes with Gang Of Four and Time's Man of the Year 1951, and the poor Chinese guys locked up at Gitmo, parsed by me and Megan after the jump. More »

What's This Guy Doing On The Blog? Just Fucking Up The World, Folks!

Moe — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:00:00 EDT

One of the cool things about writing for a "women's" blog that actively rails against the ghettoization of women's voices in the "women's" media is that it gives me the only excuse I can really think of to draw your attention to the work of a woman journalist who has succeeded in resisting said ghettoization, the New Yorker's Connie Bruck, who this week profiled Sheldon Adelson. Adelson, a right-wing Zionist ideologue, is the owner of a slew of casinos in Las Vegas and Macau and plows billions of dollars of the world's blackjack losses into supporting President Bush; smears the reputations of rival casino magnates and Israeli politicians who favor any sort of peace-type solution with Palestine, makes an effort to get American officials to relax any loyalty they might have to the concept of "human rights" — not tough in the case of Tom DeLay — so as to nab a highly-coveted casino license in Macau/cause more Chinese to lose more money, and insinuates himself into every level of Israeli politics and discourse and sues the shit out of anyone who gets in his way. More »

Before Michelle, Barack Obama Thought Marriage Was A Meaningless Institution Blah Blah

Moe — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:00:45 EST

You know they worked at the same law firm and saw Do The Right Thing and ate Baskin-Robbins on their first date, but there are still a lot of unknown unknowns about the courtship of Michelle and Barack Obama that feebleminded swooning McDreamers like us have been gorging ourselves on Kucinich romance news to make up for. Well, thank the Oprah gods for the New Yorker! This week's issue profiles Michelle Obama, who allowed Barack to touch her knee during Do The Right Thing but did not, presumably, bone him until the second. And it worked! Because Barack was one of those dudes who, you know, was actually pro the whole "breakdown of the family" thing."We would have this running debate throughout our relationship about whether marriage was necessary," Michelle tells the magazine. "It was sort of a bone of contention, because I was, like, 'Look, buddy, I'm not one of those who'll just hang out forever.'" More »

Almost worse than making people wait over...

Jennifer — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:45:00 EDT

Almost worse than making people wait over an hour for his show to start, Louis Vuitton's Marc Jacobs committed another sin at the LV show over the weekend: Designing fugly handbags. Sure, there were clothes on display on Jacobs' Paris runway, most of which were made of what looked to be layers and layers of tulle, but it was the technicolor accessories — that looked to be emblazoned with cartoons from The New Yorker — that really stood out. Pardon the pun, but we're not convinced these bags will be the "Talk of the Town." Gallery begins below. More »

Donatella Versace's Not-So-Gilded Designer Age

Jennifer — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:00:00 EDT

At twelve, Donatella had her first highlights— "'Lighter and lighter and lighter,' I told them!" she recalled. At fourteen, she was suspended from school for wearing eyeliner to rival Cleopatra's; by sixteen, she was a platinum blonde.

This chronology is courtesy of writer Lauren Collins, who, in this week's New Yorker, offers up a strangely moving portrait of designer Donatella Versace. Yes, of course, as Collins aptly points out, there are the elements of the perverse surrounding the designer and her famous family — as Collins puts it, "When was the last time you saw a pubescent boy on YouTube impersonating Donna Karan?" — but there is also something charmingly vulnerable about a group of individuals so enmeshed in its own over-the-top fantasy world. (During a earthquake, relates Donatella's ex-husband, the designer called out for her face creams. She also travels with her own furniture so she can bring her home with her everywhere.) More »

Oh Cate, we hardly knew ye...

Anna Holmes — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:09:03 EST

We love Cate Blanchett. There's the pretentious, but not pretentious-on-her spelling of her first name. There's her looks, which can go from hardened, almost masculine, Plain Jane to jaw-droppingly exquisite in the flash of a quick cut to black. There's her kinda ugly but you-know-he's-brilliant playwright husband, Andrew Upton, who seems gloriously proud - rather than resentful - of his wife. But mostly, it's Blanchett's talent and choices as an actress [eat that, Gwyneth] that have us believing she can do no wrong. (Bob Dylan! She's playing BOB DYLAN!!!) More »