Ariel Levy's profile of Alber Elbaz, the Israeli who's helmed Lanvin since 2001, succeeds in describing the designer's grasp of women's wear — which is founded in no small part in Elbaz's own troubled self-image.
At left, the cover of this week's New Yorker, which features writer Ryan Lizza's take on Barack Obama's early years in Chicago, an article that is somehow totally related to this supposedly satirical illustration portraying Michelle and Barack as Muslim/Black Power extremists who worship Osama bin Laden and burn…
Hola, patriots! We have a treat for you today at Crappy Hour: we read two really long stories for you, Gail Sheehy's first rough draft of the demise of Hillaryland in Vanity Fair and Seymour Hersh's investig-planation of what exactly your tax dollars are doing in Iran. And oh my goodness, the stuff we knew that we…
One of the cool things about writing for a "women's" blog that actively rails against the ghettoization of women's voices in the "women's" media is that it gives me the only excuse I can really think of to draw your attention to the work of a woman journalist who has succeeded in resisting said ghettoization, the New…
You know they worked at the same law firm and saw Do The Right Thing and ate Baskin-Robbins on their first date, but there are still a lot of unknown unknowns about the courtship of Michelle and Barack Obama that feebleminded swooning McDreamers like us have been gorging ourselves on Kucinich romance news to make up…
Almost worse than making people wait over an hour for his show to start, Louis Vuitton's Marc Jacobs committed another sin at the LV show over the weekend: Designing fugly handbags. Sure, there were clothes on display on Jacobs' Paris runway, most of which were made of what looked to be layers and layers of tulle, but…
At twelve, Donatella had her first highlights— "'Lighter and lighter and lighter,' I told them!" she recalled. At fourteen, she was suspended from school for wearing eyeliner to rival Cleopatra's; by sixteen, she was a platinum blonde.
This chronology is courtesy of writer Lauren Collins, who, in this week's New…
We love Cate Blanchett. There's the pretentious, but not pretentious-on-her spelling of her first name. There's her looks, which can go from hardened, almost masculine, Plain Jane to jaw-droppingly exquisite in the flash of a quick cut to black. There's her kinda ugly but you-know-he's-brilliant playwright husband,…
