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Just Don't Go There

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6:30 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Megan Carpentier
3,129 views, 67 comments

Latest by n/a: Those quote from Michael Savage are disgusting. But there's a bright side in that a lot of conservatives have autistic children and this attack may open their eyes to this man's reckless disregard for the truth. And if they tune more »

party report

The National Magazine Awards: 3 Hours Better Spent Reading Magazines

Cindi Leive, the editor-in-chief of Glamour and president of the American Society of Magazine Editors, is very attractive. She is very well-liked. She is, by all accounts — and I have more accounts of Leive's bedside manner than I ever asked for — a terribly nice, and intelligent, person. But Glamour is a essentially dumb and frivolous magazine and that fact, coupled with its nomination in the largest-circulation General Excellence category, probably inspired me to pay particular attention to her speech at last night's generally boring National Magazine Awards. And Cindi obliged my cynicism, opening the ceremony with comment to the effect of thanking all the ASME judges for all the many thousands of hours they put in reading magazines. "Thousands of hours of work," was, I believe, the phrase she used, followed by something to the effect of said "work" being performed, voluntarily, by very high-placed and important editors.

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5:40 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Moe
7,123 views, 20 comments

Latest by that megawatt smile: I work for an inflight magazine. (Go ahead, let the jokes commence). Even though I work on the front of the book, my favorite section to edit and read is the feature well. So magazines are my crack. My mail more »

rag trade

Will Italian Vogue Break With Fashion Mag Tradition, Feature Black Models?

  • Europeans are always more progressive than Americans. Rumor is, Italian Vogue may be producing a cover featuring only black models. [Fashionista]
  • Oh. My. God. High School Musical and Hannah Montana-inspired Crocs, soon available at a store near you. [Yahoo]
  • Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola will be the next faces of Louis Vuitton's "core values" campaign (the very same campaign in which Keith Richards agreed to participate in exchange for a LV monogrammed guitar case.) What do you think the Coppolas get out of this? An LV director's chair? An LV vinyard? [WWD, 1st item]
  • "Boyfriend" jackets are big for spring. But Peter Som says the ones he designed for Bill Blass are inspired by Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama. [WSJ]
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11:30 AM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Jennifer
3,150 views, 68 comments

Latest by n/a: Wal-mart, Rumer Willis, AND Kristin Cavallari? It's a menage a trois of tacky. vom. more »

photoshop of horrors

Magazine Editors "Consider" Discussing Airbrushing Guidelines

As previously reported, there's talk of banning magazines in the UK from digital photo enhancement. Meanwhile, The American Society of Magazine Editors is considering a "panel discussion" about retouching guidelines, reports Folio. Cindi Leive, ASME president and editor in chief of Glamour, says there will not be a ban. "Given the ubiquity of retouching technology these days—think of brides and their wedding photos—it seems unrealistic to forbid all digital manipulation of photos in any magazine." Wait, brides are doing it, so it's okay? Folio points out that Leive is no stranger to PhotoShop controversy. Still, she says, "Readers should never be misled about what they're looking at." And yet! More »

1:00 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Dodai
13,670 views, 81 comments

Latest by dirtybee says bee yourself!: Caption on cover of magazine: The Female Freak Show - We Need To Stop Now. Fucking hypocrites - how about starting with scrapping the Photoshop to make genuinely beautiful women look like someone other than themselves? more »

Glamour editrix Cindi Leive was speaking at the Magazine Publishers of America's 2008 Retail Conference earlier this week, and she attributed some of the success of her magazine to its "upbeat" and "positive" message. "[Our] headlines don't talk down or blame or accuse women," she said. "Most are complimentary and positive messages." Right after Bill Mickey from Folio magazine reported these comments, he snarked, "Despite the positive cover lines, Glamour's single copy sales (747,014) dropped 13.2 in the second half of 2007 compared to second half 2006, according to ABC Fas-Fax numbers." Ooooh BURN. [Folio]

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rag trade

Nothing Comes Between Kate Bosworth And Her Calvins

  • Kate Bosworth is the new face of Calvin Klein jeans. Looks good enough to make us forget another girl named Kate who once was the face of CK jeans. [Vogue UK]
  • In case you forgot, here's what Brooke Shields looked like in her Calvins. [Sassybella])
  • With nary a girl to dress for red carpet season, Badgley Mischka has made an awards-attending Barbie. [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Mazel Tov to Stella McCartney, who just gave birth to baby number three, a son, Beckett Robert Lee Willis. McCartney and her husband Aldashair WIllis have two other children and one ex-wicked stepmother. [WWD, 2nd item]
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11:00 AM on Thu Jan 10 2008
By Jennifer
3,672 views, 59 comments

Latest by n/a: I swear, every day I hear a new use for apple cider vinegar. All of my mom's friends swear by apple cider vinegar mixed with water for stomach issues, gout, irregularity.. they make it seem like some kind of wonder-treatment. more »

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Glamour Attempts To Negotiate Peace Between Blacks, Bitchy Redheads

Not only did the Israelis meet with the Palestinians yesterday! Glamour Magazine met with black people. The topic at hand was Ashley Baker, the white former fashion blogger-editor from Kansas who told a bunch of lawyers that Afros and dreadlocks were a corporate "don't", although maybe she didn't exactly say that but either way now she's gone like Yasser Arafat, and yet institutional racism remains. Which is why, as many of the people who attended yesterday's event pointed out, Ashley's alleged statement was actually fairly accurate and pragmatic advice. What to do? No one knows! We weren't invited, but the reviews are in and it sounds like an amiable star-studded gabfest, replete with Veronica Chambers and Court TV's Jami Floyd and moderated by NPR's Farai Chideya, with one notable exception, chronicled by (white) blogger Girlbomb.
Kicked out of prime seat by A/V guy; denied alternate seat by snotty redhead, "waiting for [her] friend."
Who is bitch kidding. Bitch has no friends.
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11:30 AM on Wed Nov 28 2007
By Moe
7,220 views, 94 comments

Latest by lovely nigerienne: Who is this audience member kidding? Every black woman in the corporate world knows natural hair is a "don't" to their white male bosses. It doesn't apply to law firms because lawyers are better able to see a more »

rag trade

Posh Gets Glamour Editor Cindi Leive Thrown Out Of Boutique

  • Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive learned what it really feels like to be "just like us" when she got booted out of Parisian boutique Colette because Victoria Beckham had arrived to shop. And uh, Leive was in the middle of getting changed in the dressing room. Ouch. [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Memo to models: It does not make us like you any more when you say things like, "But my whole family is tall and pretty!". [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Olivier Theyskens is going to restage his S/S 2008 Nina Ricci show in interior designer/cracked out Top Design judge Kelly Wearstler's backyard in Beverly Hills. For breast cancer awareness, naturally. [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Speaking of cancer: Marc Jacobs will be reissuing his skin cancer awareness T-shirts with all our favorite naked (and we assume, lily-white and sunspot-free) tushes from last year — Winona Ryder, Julianne Moore, etc. [WWD, 1st item]
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10:00 AM on Wed Oct 10 2007
By Jennifer
1,368 views, 3 comments

Latest by ceejeemcbeegee: I absolutely HATE when stores kick paying customers out because a celeb comes to pick up free stuff. I don't buy shit at Kitson, Kheils, or American Apparel for this very reason. more »

slave to fashion

Glamour "Racist" Ashley Baker Calls Us, Sets Nappy Hair Story Straight

Ousted Glamour "racist" Ashley Baker just called me, and as I expected, turned out not to be a racist. No, for real, when you hear the full story, which I'm not going to repeat because I'm going to ask you to trust me on this one, you think, well for one, not only is Ashley Baker not a racist, but it is kind of racist how other people at Glamour are using her public shaming as an opportunity to say "OMG Ashley is such a bitch and I hate her so much" as if it makes them official point guards on Team Nappy Hoes. But Ashley was in a tough position. "My experience is that when something like this happens, if you just come out immediately and tell the truth and say you're sorry, people will accept that," she said. "That's what I wanted to do" — and what she asked to do as soon as she saw the original post. Of course she couldn't, because working at Conde Nast magazines is really official and important and every statement needs to be parsed and vetted because they're like the National Security Agency that way. More »

2:30 PM on Mon Oct 8 2007
By Moe
17,441 views, 136 comments

Latest by n/a: It's hard to believe she was saying, afros are bad, black people have afros, therefore black people shouldn't work in corporate america. Perhaps that was the output/translation, but even if she said it as glibly as a "it's a glamour-don't" more »

race relations

'Glamour''s Suze Yalof Schwartz Hates Black Butts, Cannot Lie

Remember when that Glamour editor told luncheon full of lady lawyers that like, having black hair is one thing if you're, like, Allen Iverson or Sir Mixalot or whatever, but in the corporate world you needed to keep your politics out of your hair i.e. not be black? Okay, so then, remember how our sister site Gawker outed Glamour "Suze on Style" blogger and executive fashion editor Suze Yalof Schwartz as the probable culprit? So guys! Today on "Suze On Style"
I think I've truly seen it all now - check this out: The Brazilian Butt Enhancer. Seriously, I've never met someone who wanted a larger rear, have you?
Ha ha ha ha so you're blogging to us from the year 1957, Suze? Anyway, we consulted the writer of the original American Lawyer piece, Vivia Chen, on the incident for a reaction as to, you know, WTF. More »

6:00 PM on Tue Sep 25 2007
By Moe
10,954 views, 56 comments

Latest by lovely nigerienne: While I do not want a bigger butt, I know lots of non-latinas and non-black women who can use some junk in their trunk. What baffles me is that there are fat white people with no butts. more »

signature psychoses

'Glamour' Editor Cindi Leive: Smart, Sensitive...OMG We're Really Trying Hard Not To Judge!

Cindi Leive was the daughter of a scientist mom who attended the nation's nerdiest and most self-serious liberal arts college and interned at the Paris Review ... all so she could grow up to edit Glamour? Where her crowning achievements include... the online Do's And Don'ts forum, Alyssa Shelasky, Edgy English Teacher. We're not going to editorialize on this matter, because according to Sheila Kurtz's handwriting analysis, she's "exquisitely sensitive" to criticism and very easily "wounded." Also: no one we know has told us she's a bitch. Yet! More »

11:05 AM on Thu Aug 9 2007
By Moe
3,981 views, 6 comments

Latest by AndIAmTellingYou: Cindi Leive is awesome! She's the best. Don't wanna hear anyone talk bad about Cind. But she never calls her friends back, so yeah, she's a bitch. And she totally knows it. more »

rag trade

Omaha, Nebraska: Underground Fashion Capital

  • Indie pop band Tilly and the Wall announces Nebraskan style-revolution from the stage of the Coachella Music Festival, saying of their home state: "...you don't really have anywhere to buy clothes except for thrift stores so you just create it yourself, which has led to a ton of crazy style in Omaha." [WWD]
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10:49 AM on Tue May 1 2007
By Jennifer
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"Glamour" Editrix Cindi Leive Feels No Need To Exploit Her Motherlessness This Mother's Day

Sometimes we wonder why many of the tips so breathlessly recounted in Glamour — like "eat vegetables" (p. 154), "sunburns are unhealthy" (p. 129-146), and "if you have really big tits you will look kind of slutty in a string bikini" (p. 106) — are the type of things you our moms told us when we were like, ten*. We wonder no more. The gimlet eyes here at Jezebel have detected evidence in the latest issue — HOT OFF THE PRESSES, MIND YOU! — that suggests Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive is motherless, like Brooklyn! More »

3:04 PM on Thu Apr 5 2007
By Moe
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weight

Talking About Weight In Black And White

The Huffington Post's Hannah Seligson published an interesting piece today on the issue of women — particularly those in the public eye — and their weight. More »

3:15 PM on Mon Mar 5 2007
By Anna
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