Over on Racialicious, Latoya Peterson writes about the March issue of Glamour, which contains a transcript from the panel that editor-in-chief Cindi Leive put together after the slide show debacle six months ago in which an editor called an Afro "a no-no" and declared dreadlocks "political." The editor was fired, and…
About a month ago, we wrote about an incident at a NYC law firm involving an editor from Glamour magazine, the "appropriateness" of certain African-American hairstyles, the word "political", and some angry, offended attorneys. Yesterday, the (now-former) editor, Ashley Baker, called Moe and gave as much of her side of…
"It took a certain courage," Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour writes in her August editor's letter, for such luminaries as Harvard physicist Lisa Randall and Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin "to admit to the pleasure that fashion brings them." Well, Glamour "Slaves To Fashion" blogger Ashley Baker — for whom…
Glossed Over's vain and vitriolic blogger is taking her favorite target, Lucky, to task for its unyielding — and subsequently totally meaningless — use of the word "rich" to describe various items (sandals, bags, blouse) featured in the July issue. Does "rich" mean "expensive" she asks? "Shiny"? "High-quality?"…
Sometimes reading all the bullshit we have to read every day on the internet allows us to claim obnoxious pieces of slang as our own, somehow rendering them inoffensive and even a little bit cute by virtue of our own totally ironic re-appropriations. This is not happening with "lurve." Look up "lurve" on Technorati…
Alyssa Shelasky has just announced on her blog that she has inexplicably broken up with her boyfriend of a month and a half (and she's making a valiant effort not to equate it with the Virginia Tech tragedy!). In light of this surprising romantic development, and Alyssa's unsatisfying lack of explanation for it ("It…
Speaking of Britney, the dear girl once wrote a letter accusing the journalists who 'hounded' her, of being fat jealous bitches. As we gazed around our newsroom, inhaling the heady aroma of gay man and anorexic fashion assistant, we had to smile.
