<![CDATA[Jezebel: barf bags]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: barf bags]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/barfbags http://jezebel.com/tag/barfbags <![CDATA[ Assuming an alternate stance to our barf...]]> Assuming an alternate stance to our barf bag route, a woman in London is giving out well-balanced bagged lunches to models outside of the major show venues during London Fashion Week: "They contain a range of food including salads, fruit and flapjacks. All the food is labeled with detailed nutrition information." We would pay to have someone bring us a pancake-filled, bagged lunch right about now. It seems so unfair, especially since you know those girls aren't going to eat their pancakes anyway! [Daily Mail]

]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=301062&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA['NY Times' Fashion Critic Cathy Horyn Trash-Talks Vera Wang; Gets Herself Banned From Carolina Herrera]]>

  • NY Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn (left) ate Cheerios, ran into a bunch of famous people she knows, got coffee, saw a Vera Wang show that was supposed to be about "Rome" and she totally didn't see what was so "Rome" about it. Her blog is sort of like Cory Kennedy's blog, only with better punctuation.[NYT]
  • Speaking of Horyn, she was banned from designer Carolina Herrera's show, happening today, after trashing her collection even more viciously than Vera Wang's last season. [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Fashion Week (which in case you hadn't realized, we're currently in the middle of) has just struck a deal enabling it to keep itself in Bryant Park for two more years. Bryant Park has been very vocal about wanting the fashion folk gone, presumably because they're tired of cleaning up all the barf. We credit our barf bags for the park allowing the shows to stay! [WWD, sub req'd]
  • Angelina and Zahara have matching Valentino handbags. Long sigh. [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Almost as exciting as the fashion week currently underway in Boston, Japan Fashion Week is also happening in Tokyo. [WWD, sub req'd]
  • We like Michael Kors in a brand new way: He opened his show to the sounds of "Xanadu"! [WWD, 1st item]
  • Behnaz Sarafpour missed her own show on Friday because she was too busy passing a kidney stone. If there's one thing more excruciating than enduring Fashion Week, it's probably getting a limb amputated, but passing a kidney stone is still pretty rough. [WWD, 3rd item]
  • Meanwhile across the pond, London-based designer Christopher Kane's Spring/Summer 2008 has been stolen! If you know anything, please call Scotland Yard's fashion department ASAP. [Vogue UK]
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=298061&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Our Barf Bags Were A Hit, Except With, You Know, The Models]]> Some of you are wondering about the reaction to our distribution of vomit bags in front of the fashion shows. Here's the report: People — like the ladies seen above — seemed to love them. Earlier this afternoon, we spoke to our two "stewardesses", model Dina Davis, and stylist/model Levon Saunders, both of whom handed out bags with accompanying lines like "Enjoy this after lunch!" and "Psst, take one, it's what all the models are doing!". Below, check out a gallery from today's stunt (click on any picture to see entire gallery). After the jump, hear what Dina and Levon had to say about the experience of encouraging eating disorders among the fashion flock.

Dina:

We felt famous, the paparazzi were all over us. We were getting so much attention, maybe more than the people coming out of the tents. For the most part, people loved the barf bags, except for a few idiots with no sense of humor. Mostly those people were the models themselves. This one girl today, she took a bag and when she realized what it was she tossed it in the garbage with an angry face. I know that the fashion industry is high-pressure but we were not out to offend them in particular. I mean, since everyone has stick up their asses during Fashion Week, it was just a good time to poke fun. Oh, there was this other woman, who wasn't a model. We were in the tent and everyone was laughing and this one woman walking in, looked at the barf bag I offered her, smiled very fakely and tossed it back on my tray.
Levon:
It was one of the first times I've done anything like that. It was really fun. The actual experience itself, being dressed up, was also a lot of fun. Some people were extremely receptive, they thought it was hilarious; others thought it was weird and some thought it was offensive. The models didn't so much love them, and neither did people who were outside of the fashion world. Pedestrians walking on the street didn't really get it, or they did get it and thought it was stupid.
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=297376&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Fashion Week Make You Want To Hurl? We're Here To Help]]> We couldn't let our first Fashion Week go by without making some sort of a statement, right? Yeah, well, today that statement shat itself all over the steps leading up to the tents in midtown Manhattan's Bryant Park. At precisely 2pm today, two badass young broads clad in eggplant-hued stewardess outfits sidled up to the cement staircase facing NYC's 6th Avenue bearing gifts for the dazzling yet dispossessed: Jezebel barf-bags. (Yes, real, airline-approved barf-bags). Inside the bags? More fashionista fun, namely, Ex-Lax, tongue depressors and, to top it all off, Tic-Tacs. (Who doesn't need a little freshening up after a particularly purge-worthy display of expensive shit?). Below, a gallery of more pictures. (Click on any picture to see entire set)

[Photograph by Briana Heard. Hairstyling: Kevin Woon & MichaelAnthony for the Woon Salon, NYC. Makeup: Christine Vega, Mondo Morales]

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