I am not trying to be mean, but Lily Cole's cakes are probably not very good. Cooking allows for many freedoms (and that salad she's describing sounds delicious) but baking is a science and requires precise amounts to turn out properly.
@LvV: I know a guy who bragged that he made awsome cakes just like Lily Cole, mixing this and that, and guessing the amounts. The one time I actually tasted his cake, it was dense and horrible, but I didn't have the heart to say so. He's a really nice, generous person. I suspect something similar's going on with Cole and her friends. #zoekravitz
True confessions: I have actually worn the mary-kateandashley makeup. They made a really kick ass gold metallic eye shadow pencil that I used to rock in high school. #zoekravitz
@Zombie Ms. Skittles: I still have a couple of their eyeshadows. I've had them for years and should probably toss them, but now it's like they're a relic or something ... #zoekravitz
@Zombie Ms. Skittles: I have too! I bought a bunch of it at once, like 5 years ago, because they had things packaged together and then they were buy one get one free, and they were cheap. It was good makeup, especially the lip gloss. I used everything until they were done and I still have the dark brown eyeliner.
It is a little embarrassing. One of my friends peeked in my makeup bag and was like "I didn't know you were a Mary Kate and Ashley fan" #zoekravitz
I have very strong opinions about Eileen Fisher. I worked in a boutique that sold her things when I was in college and, regardless of the "image" she's going for (fuck, it's fashion), she IS a godsend to a lot of women. If you can sell a cute pair of linen drawstring pants in XS to a 19 year old like me and dress a size 22 who is 50 and a professional, you're doing something right.
Fisher's ads feature a pretty wide range of women (ages, races and yes, sizes). She doesn't need to target the plus-size market because they already flock to her.
Also, Rosie bugs me. Does Donna Karan go for a plus size image? No. #ragtrade
@Penny: It's not my kind of style, but Eileen Fisher clothing seems to be very well made. Many of the brands catering to plus sizes seem to be very cheaply made.
If I go to a higher end department store and look at plus sizes, the style is very dowdy and matronly. There are young, plus size women who have the money to buy nice things.
@Penny: I agree about the designs -- I actually love some of Eileen Fisher's pieces. (Most of them I stole from my mum, but you know.)
However, it is true the company is consciously chasing a younger "hipper" customer -- they certainly collaborated with a Times article stating same -- and that strikes me as foolish.
And if Fisher herself said what O'Donnell reports, to her very face, that is just downright mean.
@Jenna: I agree. I'm not one to ditch good design willy nilly, but Fisher's rudeness to a happy, loyal customer tells me I shouldn't express any more gratitude to Eileen Fisher with my hard-earned money because clearly my fat behind insults her business.
Famous person talking about and wearing your clothes = great advertising. Famous person telling fans how rude and ungrateful clothing designer is = bad advertising. That's how social media works, lady. #zoekravitz
@Penny: "...And then, he's gonna make her Lady Wintour, Viscountess of 4 Times Square, and Marchioness of the Leaping Brazilians, and he'll take her as his vassal for Long Island, and then they'll all eat pizza and cupcakes." #zoekravitz
I was reading through the UK Vogue with Georgia May on the cover last night. It's literally the first time I have flipped through a magazine and felt frightfully old. #ragtrade
I can relate to Lily Cole's excitement about cooking. I just started cooking meals that are more complicated than "1.) Punch hole in plastic 2.) Put in microwave" and "Place meat in between two pieces of bread." I get really excited when I don't require recipes to get my food going. But I guess I usually only share this excitement with my boyfriend, and he kind of just gives me a skyped-pat on the head-look and proceeds to continue his tradition of cooking delicious food.
And yeah, I actually remember Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's make-up line. Probably because I was a pre-teen at the time it started and scanned the make-up aisle of Wal-Mart like I used to pace and analyze the toy aisle.
I like the Swedish system, under which selling sex is not illegal but buying sex is. Seems like the most sensible and most humane approach to the whole issue of prostitution.
With regard to the John Schools, I think it's actually good that they target johns who have picked up street walkers. the "escort agencies and internet hookups" are less likely--I think?--to exploit drug addicted or enslaved women.
Placing Johns on the sex offender registry--for a consensual act with a grown woman--is very "gotcha!" in nature, dilutes the seriousness and purpose of the registry, and infantilizes any sex worker who has chosen her profession. As long as prostitution is illegal, I don't mind the concept of John School (most Johns are ignorant or in denial of the nature of prostitution or seeing sex workers as human) but putting Johns on the registry would have ridiculous detriments not worth the possible benefit. If people are so hell-bent on protecting prostitutes like any other worker, I wager their work should be decriminalized and taxed and subject to the protections of all legal workers (and thus able to seek help from police and social agencies without fear). No one has to like or approve of prostitution to support humane treatment of sex workers. I'd be weirded out if a bf of mine admitted to "paying for it" once in his wild youth, but I don't want him to have to live a certain distance from schools for the rest of his life like some molester. The punishment wouldn't fit the crime.
@Treeless: I don't think Johns being named as sex offenders is something you need to realistically worry about. Male politicians would never risk themselves being placed in that category.
Has anyone seen the documentary "Very Young Girls?" The opening scenes are all about girls, none of whom entered prostitution AFTER the age of 16 (most were 13 or so), talking about the abuse they suffered from their pimps and johns. Anyway, after all that there’s a scene that takes place at a lecture the johns have to go to. The cop there explains that their crime will not show up on any of their records, but that they can’t do it again because these girls are young and often sex slaves. One guy raises his hand after hearing this and says "When’s the break?" All the other guys laughed.
While I believe prostitution should be made legal, I think that scene is clear that we need to properly set the stage for it…
@LaComtesse: 1/3 street-level prostitutes in the US are under the age of 18 - so the most vulnerable sex workers are also the youngest (and arguably not 'sex workers' at all, but rape victims). ([www.sp2.upenn.edu])
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/cookie nerd #zoekravitz
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I claim it's just as creative; you just have to be carefully creative. #zoekravitz
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Olivier Zahm: Definitely has Booger's hair. #zoekravitz
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It is a little embarrassing. One of my friends peeked in my makeup bag and was like "I didn't know you were a Mary Kate and Ashley fan" #zoekravitz
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Fisher's ads feature a pretty wide range of women (ages, races and yes, sizes). She doesn't need to target the plus-size market because they already flock to her.
Also, Rosie bugs me. Does Donna Karan go for a plus size image? No. #ragtrade
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If I go to a higher end department store and look at plus sizes, the style is very dowdy and matronly. There are young, plus size women who have the money to buy nice things.
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However, it is true the company is consciously chasing a younger "hipper" customer -- they certainly collaborated with a Times article stating same -- and that strikes me as foolish.
And if Fisher herself said what O'Donnell reports, to her very face, that is just downright mean.
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Famous person talking about and wearing your clothes = great advertising. Famous person telling fans how rude and ungrateful clothing designer is = bad advertising. That's how social media works, lady. #zoekravitz
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I didn't know the President was able to do this. Are we in England? #ragtrade
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And yeah, I actually remember Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's make-up line. Probably because I was a pre-teen at the time it started and scanned the make-up aisle of Wal-Mart like I used to pace and analyze the toy aisle.
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... now that made me laugh.
(p.s. decimal :D )
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(NEED. COFFEE.) #zoekravitz
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With regard to the John Schools, I think it's actually good that they target johns who have picked up street walkers. the "escort agencies and internet hookups" are less likely--I think?--to exploit drug addicted or enslaved women.
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While I believe prostitution should be made legal, I think that scene is clear that we need to properly set the stage for it…
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