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CaraOrestes
08/05/09

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This is why I steal my husband's magazine's. Sept "Men's Journal" is the Style & Design issue with great stuff in there.

Why can't women's magazine's be fun to read? Why do they always end up making me feel bad about my "office chair ass"?
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08/05/09

@CaraOrestes: June "Men's Journal" has Rafa on the cover. I don't have to care how I look when I read because not only does he give great interview, he looks good even when his hair is very sweaty.
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Spangles
08/05/09

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Wait. I'm really confused what are walkabout eyebrows exactly?
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I'm Chuck Bass
08/05/09

@Spangles: Isn't a walkabout what John Locke was going to do in Australia on Lost? Now I'm picturing my eyebrows yelling, "Don't tell me what I can't do!"
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Margaret
08/05/09

@Spangles: They are balding, unruly eyebrows... it didn't make much sense.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
08/05/09

@Margaret: Balding and unruly?? That's too much woman-looks hate, even for Vogue, I think.
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BlondeGoddess
08/05/09

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What I hate most about these 'beauty' features, is that they are a very thinly veiled ploy for the writers to get free treatments/surgery/whatever.
You're rich bitches! Pay for it already! Don't bore me with these stories!
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Miss. Money-Sterling
08/05/09

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I'm not very aware of fashion and models, and even I have somehow been convinced that these women are oldish. When I read that Christy Turlingon was 40 I thought, JEBUS, that's my demographic, if not my actual age. Somehow I was under the impression she was much older than me. Damn you, magazines, for implying that youngish, vibrant women are old ladies. They're in their flippin' prime! For shame.
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Yahtzii
08/05/09

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We are each shiny grasshoppers, with a little gold "C" gilded onto our thorax. The world of fashion is shiny and ebullient, like a pair of Louboutins in a bubble bath with a rainbow. It is about expressing our inner joie de puppie, in which we pounce and tussle with each other like the beautiful whole grains and kali yuga yoga spirals that engender our leggings age.

At least, that's what I took away from it.
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krismry
08/05/09

@Yahtzii: Quite apt, since the Kali Yuga is probably best personified by the values of Vogue. The Kali Yuga is the worst of the great ages. a disintigrating, amoral, and ultimately stupid eon that goes on basically for ever without changing much.
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Yahtzii
08/05/09

@krismry: I just learned what it was because a studio opened near my house. It is designed to counteract the effects of the Kali Yuga, and very fittingly it looks like the opposite of the Vogue accessories closet.
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Dodgergirl
08/05/09

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Pardon me, Vogue, but I am not a butterfly. I am a LADY BUG. Because I am a LADY. Butterflies are so uncouth!
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CurtCole
08/05/09

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My Solutions to Oribe advice on how to be a Christy Turlington style Model
1. "She's smarter than a whip"—Saddle soap is excellent for leather whips.
2. "There are so many gorgeous women that are not smart or witty and kind"—You only have to be one of these in addition to beautiful. I recommend "kind" it is the easiest to fake.
3. "She was this superclassy thing"—"superclassy" isn’t a word, so apparently you only have to be a "thing" and since you are a proper noun you can get down with your bad self.
4. "and a virgin"—Well…have an "urgin'," at least it rhymes and maybe no one will notice.
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dianersb was bit by a zombie
08/05/09

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I for one am not a painted butterfly. I have no wings, I'm not wearing make-up, and I didn't spend part of my life taking a nap in a coccoon.
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pesematology
08/05/09

@dianersb was bit by a zombie: I'm not winged or made-up either, but I do spend a lot of time napping in my cocoon. Maybe I'm still a caterpillar? Or something else like a flea or a wasp?
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dianersb was bit by a zombie
08/05/09

@pesematology: I think I'm more like a contented tiger. Full of naps, but still awesome.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
08/05/09

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Wait, if 30 is the new 80, that makes me what, 85? I am immediately going to start being exactly that awesome. Score.
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pesematology
08/05/09

@TheFormerJuneBronson: It's an exponential scale. You're actually like 280 years old.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
08/05/09

@pesematology: When 280 years old you reach, look as good, you will not!
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
08/05/09

@TheFormerJuneBronson: Hee. A Jedi craves not these things.
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hollygirl
08/05/09

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I read the whole article, and that virgin thing really jumped out... ?? I have been in her presence many times over the years in NYC (ie line at starbucks) and she's always seemed so polite and lovely.
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dreamweave
08/05/09

@hollygirl: All virgins seem that way.
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Solomon Grundy
08/05/09

@hollygirl: I'm not sure celebrity hairstylist Oribe is best known for his way with words.
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hollygirl
08/05/09

@dreamweave: hah!
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hollygirl
08/05/09

@Solomon Grundy: But someone could have edited out the virgin thing.
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jigglyball
08/05/09

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Style isn't imposed on us by the Establishment it's a daily affirmation of, well, our joie de vivre. We are each a painted butterfly, with a different pattern on our wings. The concept that adornment can—like capoeira-yoga classes or a devotion to esoteric whole grains—engender well-being is especially good news ...

As an editor, I really must ask:

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? Who let that utter bullshit go to print? This makes GOOP look restrained, spartan, sensible.
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stacyinbean
08/05/09

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Leggings at 70? How about Leggings at Never?
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badmutha
08/05/09

@stacyinbean: There are some things that we just shouldn't ever do. Leggings at 70 is one of them.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
08/05/09

@badmutha: 70 is the new leggings.
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Eleanor Ramilly
08/05/09

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We are each a painted butterfly, with a different pattern on our wings.
Oh, GAG me.
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Chamalla,barren crone
08/05/09

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I swear I'm going to blow a vein the next time I see a woman defined as a "thing."
"She was this superclassy thing..." WTF? Is she an Hermes scarf? A bottle of Channel? Is the extra syllable in "person" just too damned hard to get out?
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birdywaa
08/05/09

@Chamalla, now gainfully employed: I'm going to but that line on my next round of grant applications: "I'm a superclassy thing, bigger than life and virgin".
Lies, perhaps, but superclassy ones.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
08/05/09

@birdywaa: *laughs till she cries*
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Casquivana
08/05/09

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That whole issue gave me the giggles. And I still bought it. Shut up.
I've mentioned it before, but what stuck with me was the fact that Yvonne Force Villarreal's son is named Quattro. Like... Why not Acht?? Ocho?? Cinq?? No?? Am I being mean?? I just can't get over it.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
08/05/09

@Casquivana: Maybe we should be happy she didn't name him Quadroon.
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