Jezebel: babushka

Helena Christensen Mixes Old World Style With New World Tech Addiction

Jennifer — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:15:00 EST

[New York, November 20. Image via INF.]

Memo To Vera Wang: People In Poland Wore Babushkas Light-Ages Before You Sketched Them Up

Jennifer — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:59:33 EDT

Nothing warms our heart quite like some arbitrary list-making. The token, heart-warming arbitrary list of the day? The world's top fashion cities! Now frankly, we have no clue how this shit gets determined (or by whom, really), but New York took the #1 spot for the 4th year in a row. (Which we guess means that the voters haven't had a chance to view our impressive collection of leggings with holes in them and American Apparel dresses!) Much more interesting, however, is the city holding spot #25: Krakow. Krakow? Poland? We want to know what they're sporting in Krakow that makes it so fashionable. $10 says it's not a Vera Wang babushka.

New York Tops List Of World Fashion Cities [Reuters]

The Old Country: Motherland of Style?

Jennifer — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:56:16 EDT

The fickle fashion folk can never decide about who they love and who they love to hate. Vera Wang was all but the laughing stock of the Fall 2007 shows last September, but lo and behold, Style.com — brought to you by the meanest of the mean at Conde Nast — is now championing the Vera Wang-designed babushka! Yup, the turbaned, Prada-Orientalist look — what would Edward Said say? — is now out, and the Vera-goes-Russian look is in. We just hope someone tells Vera that Marc by Marc Jacobs was all about the Russian revival this season too. Anyway, those who plan to actually buy into this babushka trend (suckas!) can learn the right way to wear their headpieces in our handy Marc vs. Vera gallery, after the jump.

Marc by Marc Jacobs

Vera Wang

Tie One On [Style.com]
Times Fashion Critic Cathy Horyn Makes More Enemies [NYMag]