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    Pole Dancing, Prada, & Project Runway: A Year In The Life Of Jezebel Jen

    It's that time: Jezebel Jennifer's last day of work. Earlier this week, when announcing her departure and upcoming arrival at the offices of Ralph Lauren, I mentioned a little of what I like about her. Now, I'd like to call attention to a little of what I liked that she wrote. For over a year, Jennifer has been writing our "Rag Trade" fashion-industry roundup, and last night when doing a search, I was shocked to find that she has done the column a staggering 300 times. (She's also done thousands of "Snap Judgments", and according to my calculations, over 50 posts on her beloved Project Runway alone.) More »

    3:00 PM on Fri May 9 2008
    By Anna
    7,400 views, 58 comments

    Latest by chelsea g summers: @X on the MTA: Awwwww, thank you, X. And congrats and best of luck, Jen! more »

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    You Can Take The Girl Out Of Jezebel, But You Can't Take The Jezebel Out Of The Girl

    There's no adequately poetic way to put this, so I'll just jump right in: Jennifer Gerson is leaving us at the end of this week. Jennifer, as some of our old-timers know, has been with the site since virtually the very beginning: In early February 2007, she answered an "ad" I put up on our brother site, Gawker, looking for writers for the as-yet-untitled site I was working on, then known simply as 'Girly Gawker'. At the time she wrote me, she was toiling away as an assistant to Elle editor-in-chief Robbie Myers, and although I was intrigued by her pedigree — Elle, Sephora, NBC, the office of Senator Hillary Clinton — it was the intelligent, thoughtful yet energetic tone of her email that had me, if not at 'hello', at this: "I believed whole-heartedly then, and still, in a more idealistic place, believe now, that women's magazines just might be the site of large-scale revolution, if the people who make them ever choose them to be. Why couldn't stories on, say, universal health care run alongside a fashion news piece explaining the most recent grunge revival? As I said in my interview [with Elle], 'I have been reading Maureen Dowd religiously since the 6th grade and I really, really love my shoes.'" More »

    3:00 PM on Mon May 5 2008
    By Anna
    11,908 views, 92 comments

    Latest by charlesincharge: jenny g, you're my idol. you've done this site proud and i know you'll be brilliant on the other side more »

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