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more about #robingivhan more comments → battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch: I wouldn't really care except she spends so much time running her mouth trying to talk a good game. Therefore, I expect her to orchestrate social even... more » NoWireHangers: Animal-print designer pumps? Clad in couture? Oh Momo, cherry red is your lipstick shade of choice, this envy green simply does not suit you. (cough)... more » futuremouse: Shit, MoDo has claws? Is this a new type of LadyCat our helpful trend pieces haven't identified yet? more » morninggloria: Desiree Rogers bothers me, mostly because she contributed to George W Bush's campaign in 2004. [fundrace.huffingtonpost.com] more » SomeAuthorGirl: Far be it from me to cast aspersions on the USSS, but the bitching about Ms. Rogers is ridiculous. The door minders (USSS) let in people who weren't... more » Le Kangourou de Kataroo: This is so like when Heidi turned up with a bunch of friends to the first event that Lauren was working with Teen Vogue with the inflatable furniture ... more » PilgrimSoul: I really don't understand why this whole gatecrasher thing is such a big story. In Canada, once, some dude swam across the Ottawa river and broke int... more » yvanehtnioj: If there's one thing I know for sure, it's that Maureen Dowd will not stand for an uppity woman. She polices powerful women in the most transparent, ... more » lalie (apologetic mess): The issue is, yes, that it is quite literally and practically unattainable beauty. The images we see are lies, but are presented as reality; and at a... more » PilgrimSoul: Why can't I hate myself and hate fashion? #robingivhan more » LawFairy: "the enduring, subconscious - and universal - appeal of the feminine body" This, I can't agree with. It isn't universal, and to the extent it's subc... more » awinoforever: i actually completely agree with her article. the history of fashion dictates it is for an elite level of society. plus she's dead on that ideal beaut... more » LittleDogLaughed: No, madam, compared to the fashion of the past, we are not "farther from the natural ideal" (even assuming there is a "natural ideal," which I don't.)... more » Eleanor Ramilly: If the fashion designers think the clothing they make looks best on imaginary and impossibly shaped women, then the problem is their design. If, as d... more » femminista: Givhan just doesn't get it. The uproar about this particular incident has less to do with the "fun-house" mechanism she identifies as one of the prima... more » -
#capitalcrimes
Screw The Real Housewives - Washington Can Do Bitchy All By Itself
Last night, late, great Jezebel editor Megan Carpentier and friends described the White-House-crashin' Salahis as "the Speidi of Washington." What does that make scapegoat Desiree Rogers: LC? Or, worse, Audrina - someone raising herself above her natural place and abilities?
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#transfat
It's The Obesity, Stupid!
Robin Givhan's no fool. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist/critic must have known that this piece was going to ruffle feathers. Her thesis? Fatties, heal thyselves. Fashion's just doing its job.
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#ragtrade
Abercrombie Loses Another Discrimination Suit; Lindsay Lohan Is New Ungaro Artiste
- After barring a woman from helping her autistic sister try on clothes at the chain's Mall of America outpost, Abercrombie & Fitch was fined $115,264 for discrimination. Now we can say it definitively: Abercrombie doesn't like disabled people. [StarTrib]
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#greatestshowonearth
The New Project Runway Looks A Lot Like The Old Project Runway
After what feels like forever, Project Runway is back. And, as LA Times TV critic Mary McNamara writes: "Different venue, different city, same show. In fact, it's a bit alarming how little change there is." More » -
#forallmankind
People Furious About National Scandal Of Obama's Dad-Rock Jeans
And I'm just gonna go there: were they really that bad? The Washington Post's Robin Givhan says yes. More » -
#thepoliticsoffashion
Critique Of Sotomayor's Fashion Choices Falls Flat
The Washington Post's Robin Givhan is rather disappointed in Judge Sonia Sotomayor's latest sartorial decisions, deeming her choice of professional attire at last week's historic confirmation hearings not nearly feminine enough. What? More » -
#clothescalls
Screw The Husbands: What Is Today's Humiliated Wife Wearing?
GMA is concerned about how Jenny Sanford is "coping." Robin Givhan says, just look at the clothes: she's fine! But when we see Ruth Madoff's roots? That analysis is accompanied by Schadenfreude.
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#politics
Notable/Quotable
"No one noted all the white chicks covering Laura Bush." — The Washington Post's Robin Givhan, to Howard Kurtz, who points out that five reporters who cover Michelle Obama happen to be African American women. [Poynter, Politico] -
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#ragtrade
Kate Moss Destroys Hopes Of Kills Fans; Emma Watson To Design Own Line?
- One of the hazards of dating a rock star: When, mid-fight, you want to throw some of his stuff into a pool, there's a slight risk that he might have unreleased, non-backed-up new songs among his personal effects. [Mirror]
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#therealworld
Michelle Obama Is Not Claire Huxtable: The Dangers Of Comparing Reality To TV
Robin Givhan's comparison of Michelle Obama to Claire Huxtable is far from new, but it is newly bizarre, implying that six months into the Obama administration, Americans still need a dated TV show to understand Michelle.
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#conservativeestimates
Carrie Prejean: Political Visionary
Were the former Miss California's beauty less great, she'd be less typical of this new movement! More » -
#ragtrade
Kate Moss Officially "Fat"; Anthropologie Upset With Forever 21
- 1. Kate Moss is fat. 2. Kate Moss is in. 3. Fat is in. Q.E.D. [Times of London]
- Salma Hayek wore Balenciaga for her second wedding to Francois-Henri Pinault, head of PPR. [UK Elle]
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#makeunders
Does Susan Boyle Need A Makeover?
Writes the WaPo's Pulitzer Prize winning fashion critic Robin Givhan, "Should Susan Boyle have a makeover? The politically correct answer: Only if she wants one. The honest answer: Yes." More » -
#ragtrade
Vogue Readers Don't Get The Bag; Filene's Basement On The Block
- Vogue subscribers are lured with a free-gift gimmick that looks...different when it comes in the mail. Of course, subscribing to Vogue is basically scheduling disappointment monthly, but the bait-and-switch is not normally so overt. [NYPost]
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#ragtrade
Jay-Z-Owned Fragrance Company To Sell Scent Of A Mystery Female Artist
- The future will smell like Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Kanye West. (And, if I'm understanding "established female artist" correctly, Beyoncé.) [WWD]
- Kim Gordon hates it when you call some fashion thing "fierce." [The Cut]
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#ragtrade
Kaiser Karl Nominates Pretty New Model Aide-de-Camp
- Hark, watchers of the court of Karl Lagerfeld: doubleplustop prettyboy Brad Koenig is out. Model Baptiste Giabiconi is in. This is just like when Louis XV replaced Madame de Pompadour with Marie-Louise O'Murphy! [The Cut]
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#realityprinciple
In Defense Of Reality TV
Today, in the Washington Post, Robin Givhan writes that "a curse has befallen the best of trash television. It has been afflicted by hubris. It has succumbed to uninspired titillation." And that's a bad thing?
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#ragtrade
Elle MacPherson To Play Model Agency Director; Barack's Watch Selling Briskly
- 80s supermodel-turned-businesswoman Elle MacPherson will star in the CW's Beautiful as an 80s supermodel-turned-businesswoman. The show revolves around models living in agency housing. It'll be MacPherson's first television gig since her stint on Friends. [THR]
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#eyesontheo
Michelle Obama Is Getting Followed Everywhere
Her arms! Her hair! Her eyes! Her husband? Who wants to be stuck in the White House briefing room when you can be out and about with Michelle Obama, covering her impact on the world? More » -
#ragtrade
Claudia Schiffer's Personal Chanel Boutique; Theyskens To Start Namesake Line
- That's it. Olivier Theyskens is out, fired, goneburgers, signing off, stick-a-fork-in-it done at Nina Ricci. The Belgian has left the building. Peter Copping, senior designer at Louis Vuitton, is in. [WWD]
