Because I work in retail and am currently on the hunt for a new position, these rag trades are always phenomenally depressing. Every day, some retailer I have considered/am considering is in the shitter.
Jon Gosselin's life more complicated? What's more complicated than 8 effing kids?
Katie Holmes?? Who?
I wish I had an ounce of the badass that Anna Wintour has.
Maybe it's because I had a rotten commute to work this morning and thus have my crankypants on, but that New Yorker quote about Michael Bay made me laugh hysterically with derisive laughter. Viciously untalented, indeed.
That thing about Christian Audigier just reminded me of something. I saw someone wearing one of his shirts at a Pearl Jam concert the other night. It was the fuggest item of clothing I have ever seen up close.
@cuteasabutton: At a Pearl Jam concert?! I'm sorry, but if there are two things in this world that do not belong together, it is Eddie Vedder (love) and Ed Hardy. Good God, man.
What the fuck is it about a size 2 that people want to BE it so badly? Why not go all the way and be a zero, if thats how you are going to be. Is it because its the last number before the non-size?
I think its an unwritten code that 'stars' subtract at least one number size before they talk about clothes.
in the context of what you posted, of course it's true, but kk's response just shows how much sizes do mean. all us magazine did was use a picture of her next to an ad for forever 21's plus size line.
if sizes don't mean anything, then why would she bother to respond? a random photo does not a plus-size clothing ad make.
either that, or she's just pissed that she didn't get paid for kinda sorta not being in the ad in the first place.
Years ago when I worked retail there was a brand of highly coveted jeans that the designer made by using her SELF as a fit model. So if she gained or lost weight the sizes changed. The market for these jeans were generally rich teens or body conscious twenty-thirty somethings which meant that when the jeans changed I periodically had customers in full blown crisis in dressing floors. It didn't help that the designer was TEENY TINY. Meaning that the zero was sometimes more along the lines of "get thee to the hospital". That meant that a 4 or 6 was a normal persons 0. I was a 2 at the time and had jeans from that line in a 0 to a 12 in my closet that fit. It was a nightmare.
"I work really hard to maintain my curves while staying slim..."
I know Kim K goes to the gym (because she uses her workout gear as a photo-op), but she's also admitted to quite a bit of lipo. I'm not sure this "working hard" thing means what she thinks it does.
I can't believe people are arguing about what size she actually is! I would reply with this in a thread doing so, but I can't. This is absurd. She's a size 2! No, she's a size 8! She's short, so sizes look smaller on her! Something about Marilyn Monroe! Seriously?
@Samanthrax is Sarcastic: I was going to reply with something about Marilyn Monroe -- but you did it for me!
I agree. We don't know her size, and 1. her size is actually none of our business and b. knowledge of her actual size WOULDN'T ADD ANYTHING TO ANY CONVERSATION OF ANY IMPORT!
But did you know that Monroe was a 14? And that's a size Elebenity Million in today's system? But it's a 2 in England. Or was. During the war.
@Samanthrax is Sarcastic: I know, sigh. I tried to distract/divert/whatever! But I think I got here slightly too late. Alternately, resistance is futile.
@Samanthrax is Sarcastic: Seriously. It's ridiculous that this is even being debated. It's frustrating when the conversation turns to measurement comparisons among commenters.
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Katie Holmes?? Who?
I wish I had an ounce of the badass that Anna Wintour has.
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I think its an unwritten code that 'stars' subtract at least one number size before they talk about clothes.
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Saleslady at hipster boutique: "Most stores go down to 0, but ours go down to -6. When you want that extra push over the skinny cliff."
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in the context of what you posted, of course it's true, but kk's response just shows how much sizes do mean. all us magazine did was use a picture of her next to an ad for forever 21's plus size line.
if sizes don't mean anything, then why would she bother to respond? a random photo does not a plus-size clothing ad make.
either that, or she's just pissed that she didn't get paid for kinda sorta not being in the ad in the first place.
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I know Kim K goes to the gym (because she uses her workout gear as a photo-op), but she's also admitted to quite a bit of lipo. I'm not sure this "working hard" thing means what she thinks it does.
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I agree. We don't know her size, and 1. her size is actually none of our business and b. knowledge of her actual size WOULDN'T ADD ANYTHING TO ANY CONVERSATION OF ANY IMPORT!
But did you know that Monroe was a 14? And that's a size Elebenity Million in today's system? But it's a 2 in England. Or was. During the war.
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