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more about #newyorker SibaniThemis: To me this is just more body-snarking. I am skinny. I was born that way. I don't have many curves so am I not a "real woman". People have always felt ... more » thewitchandthemoll: God forbid the Prada brand is seen on nonmodels! In fact, let's jettison the singers too. They can all scowl at each other while the score is played a... more » LooseBaggyMonster: I seem to recall that Prada herself cannot sew--her design process is purely conceptual, so this is not just her balking at a technical challenge; it ... more » IamnotStarJones: It's good to be the queen, shitting on people who don't fit into a carefully constructed vision of the world. Now remember in the award season ahead... more » amplepie: I have always had a crush on Prada and Miuccia's intellectual chic leanings, as mentioned below. I also think the woman has a mean eye for accessorie... more » Dagneymedea: Lawyer Jezzies? Do these actors have a legitimate case to argue in court? FIRED for not being a size 0? more » LikeChai: But models are AWESOME at moving in the background. Nothing awkward about them at all. more » thewitchandthemoll: Boo hiss. I'm quite possibly ten times the costume designer Miz Prada is: I may not have graduated yet but when they said you create the costume FOR t... more » theovercoat: How can it be surprising that Miuccia would do this? While she is not as notorious as Karl Lagerfeld, she is the designer who started the whole model-... more » Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: 'Surely she ought to recognize that the most important part of a stage production isn't how it looks, but how all the elements come together to make t... more » baboonbutt: This production deserves to fail. I hope operagoers stay away in droves. It's OPERA for pete's sake not the effing runway in Milan. The directors nee... more » curiousgeorgiana: Is nothing sacred?? Sorry, Grandma, I had to borrow it. more » BestEuphemismEver: Is anyone else bothered by this headline? I hate, with a white hot passion, the 'real women have curves' saying. Can we please bin it? more » ambiguousasian: it shouldn't be surprising that miuccia pulled this; she's actually the one responsible for setting the runway standard of the baby blond, eastern-eur... more » schlegs84: I kinda want to cry for these actors. With all the rejection, it's so wonderful to be cast (even in a non-speaking/singing role) and then to be fired... more » envirodesigner: *sigh* If you can't dress non-models you suck as a designer. more » Athenia: After seeing designers on Project Runway utterly fail to dress not-size-0 women, I'm so not surprised. I AM surprised that the MET fired these actres... more » EarlyGrey: I'm not saying I agree with Miuccia, but I don't think the issue is not being able to design for non-model bodies. It's an issue of not wanting her de... more » robina: Has Miuccia Prada ever done costume design before? It seems like there's a fundamental disconnect in the way she's viewing her job. This is not for an... more » nerdycellist: So all the extras look like models, but the roles with singing or dancing parts will be full of regular bodies. If I were the director I'd throw a shi... more » -
#weightyissues
"Real" Women Have Curves; Miuccia Prada Wants Models
Ardent feminist ex-communist designer Miuccia Prada is handling the costumes for the Met's upcoming production of Verdi's opera Attila. But according to an anonymous source on set, Prada has balked at dressing anyone who couldn't fit into a sample size.
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#listicles
Listicle Reveals Top 10 Political-Sartorial Moments Of The Year
Michelle Obama's royal cardigan incident, Sarah Palin's glasses, Aretha Franklin's hat, and Sonia Sotomayor's judicial collar — "Oliver Cromwell meets Whistler's Mother," in the New Yorker's inimitable parlance — all make this list of 2009's memorable fashion statements. [New Yorker] -
#menofhonor
“You Write Dialogue For A Guy And Then Change The Name.â€
The lengthy profile of James Cameron in the latest New Yorker confirms a long-held and heretofore unjustified suspicion that James Cameron is, in fact, a complete and total ass.
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#quoteunquote
Rachel Maddow Fibs At New Yorker Festival!
"I'm not very pretty...I am what I am. I look like a dude. I wear boring jackets. I have a big nose. I have short hair. No one is going to mix me up with a Fox Business anchor." [NYer] -
#makeththeman
R.I.P. Richard Merkin
Richard Merkin, artist, illustrator and "professional dandy," has died at 70. Eulogized Tom Wolfe, "He was the greatest of that breed, the Artist Dandy...Like Dali, he had one of the few remaining Great Mustaches in the art world." [NYT] -
#omgshoez
I Shoes My Choice! The Pursuit of Zappiness
Leading online shoe retailer Zappo's has cheerful employees, satisfied, loyal customers, and a C.E.O. who doesn't see himself as an irreplaceable demigod. So naturally, people wonder if it's some kind of cult. Alexandra Jacobs investigates for the new New Yorker.
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#friendlyskies
Amelia Earhart Flew. She Wasn't An Angel.
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#infashion
Burberry Stays On Top By Keeping Soap Opera Stars Away From Its Styles
Burberry designer Christopher Bailey — a working-class Yorkshire lad — is profiled at length by the New Yorker's Lauren Collins. Bailey is notable not only for overseeing a house that was until recently considered moribund, but for being unusually nice.
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#ragtrade
Charlie Brown Finds Balance; Controversial Calvin Klein Billboard Replaced
- How cool are these Charlie Brown New Balance sneakers? Cool enough that we wish they weren't just for kids. [WWD]
- A London artist has created Kate Moss and Agyness Deyn paper dolls which look frighteningly like the real thing. [Pipeline.Refinery29]
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#writingwhatyouknow
What I Learned In Creative Writing Class
In this week's New Yorker (the Summer Fiction issue), Louis Menand asks if creative writing can or should be taught at universities. As a recent (two weeks ago!) graduate of a university creative writing program, I had to weigh in. More » -
#fashionphotography
Dovima With Everything
Richard Avedon disowned his fashion work in later life — but New York's International Center of Photography is mounting a retrospective exhibit of his fashion photography. This slideshow ought to heighten everyone's excitement. [New Yorker] -
#infashion
Lanvin Designer Feels Overweight; Makes Others Feel Beautiful (NSFW)
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. More » -
#ragtrade
Courtney Love Tells PETA To F**k Off
- Courtney Love vs. PETA: "Yep, I'm a fur whore... I've been very, very good for a very, very long time, and this ermine is ancient and tattered and feels like it belonged to a Queen." [Daily Express]
