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Teen Vogue Gives Summer Olympians A Sliiight Makeover
Although we were so very heartened to see Teen Vogue editor Amy Astley take the evil fashion industry to task for perpetuating unrealistic body ideals on the Today show, we admit we were skeptical! Just how was this new focus on health going to manifest itself in the pages of her theretofore anorex-positive magazine, hmmm? Now we know! Just in time to celebrate the Genocide Olympics, the July Teen Vogue is celebrating female athleticism in a 12-page fashion spread. (This is in stark contrast to its big sister Vogue, which only last month ran an entire "body issue" celebrating male athleticism by pairing male athletes with female…supermodels.) Such independence and spunk, that Teen Vogue! Catch the mag's take on fencing, beach volleyball, ping-pong, and leaning against a balance beam looking vaguely malnourished in a Berhard Willhelm cape and vintage Indian headdress,after the jump. See girls, you can be "athletic" without sacrificing your ACL. — or your BMI. More »
rag trade
Retraction: Agyness Deyn Is Offically Actually Awesome
- Breaking news: a Telegraph profile today inspired me to finally watch the Agyness Deyn music video. It is generic and derivative and cynically targeted at the aging Britpop nostalgists who write blogs and I fucking love it. Oh man, and I don't even hate myself for this. Embedded after the jump. [Telegraph]
- Tinsley Mortimer's makeup may look light and natural but it is actually deceptively heavy and high-maintenance! One brave New York writer consumed three hours she will never get back in an effort to emulate the Tinz. And you wonder why they pay her the big bucks. [NY Mag]
clips
Alexandra Michael Is About 28 Pounds Too Fat For Modeling
We used to play a little game called "Arm or Leg?" with the limbs of some of the models in Teen Vogue. (Such as this one.) But today on the Today show, Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Amy Astley announced the magazine's pro-ana days are over. Astley was moved by the story of 17-year-old model Alexandra Michael, who joined her this morning to talk about how she was sent home from Paris for being too fat, but she's okay with that since her hair is no longer falling out after she packed on 30 pounds in eating disorder rehab. And who does Amy Astley blame for the industry's deleterious emaciation obsession? "I think it's cyclical," she says. Ha ha ha, tell that to the kid who didn't get her period for a year!
rag trade
Lindsay Lohan To Share Her Inimitable Leggings Style
- Yeah, Lindsay Lohan's line of leggings? I know what you are thinking: it goes without saying that the world should not be robbed of the opportunity to purchase the fruit of Lindsay Lohan's design skills, but leggings? What can you really do with leggings? Isn't the whole point of leggings is that they are not really "designed"? Well friends, as someone who went to Catholic school, I can only say that leggings, like life, are all about the tiny, generally imperceptible differentiating details (such as built-in kneepads?) [TheLifeFiles]
- A Virginia fashion school held an abaya design contest; abayas of course, being those modest robes worn by Muslim women initially to ward off vanity, but now they come with Swarovski crystals and Louis Vuitton linings because who has money for vanity besides the Kingdom of Qatar these days? [AP]
- Leigh Lezark of the deejay trio the Misshapes is officially a model now. The agency is IMG but I know you are thinking "more like OMG" becasue she is just so very the Renaissance woman; she is like the Yin to Agyness Deyn's Yang. [Fashion Week Daily]
tweenage wasteland
Cosmo Girl Has The Spiciest -- And Smartest -- Advice When It Comes To Teen Sex
Down Under, two of the major teen magazines, rivals Dolly and Girlfriend, are banding together to fight government suggestions that the magazines come with "audience age recommendations," because of the sexually-explicit nature of their question-and answer-sections. According to the Daily Telegraph, "Tasmanian Senator Stephen Parry said he was concerned readers as young as 11 were writing in for answers to questions on anal and oral sex." (Because if they don't read the magazine, their questions will magically disappear, right?) Dolly editor Gemma Crisp told a government inquiry, "We see it as a service. It's our responsibility to provide the correct information rather than them (readers) saying to their 15-year-old friend, 'my boyfriend wants me to do this, how do I deal with it?'" We decided to see what kind of advice the American teen magazines are giving their readership. A look at sex coverage on the websites of Teen Vogue, Cosmo Girl, Elle Girl, YM and Seventeen, after the jump. More »
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The Hills: It's Sad When Coworkers You Love Have To Leave
On last night's episode of The Hills, Whitney said goodbye to Lauren and the rest of her Teen Vogue family as she prepared to venture from behind-the-scenes assisting work to the glamorous world of celebrity styling. Understandably, Lauren was sad about losing her favorite officemate, but she — and the rest of us — wish Whitney good luck in her new endeavors! Clip above.
the dangerous look for girls
Ah, can you smell it? Sticky backseats of limos, overpriced steak dinners, cheap corsages, cheaper perfume, and lost virginity: Yes, prom season is among us. (Though to be frank: I went to the prom both years with a gay guy, so my virginity was plenty intact the morning after, but that's another story.) Prom season = prom magazines, so this weekend, I pored over the pages of Teen Vogue's prom issue, the special edition CosmoGirl! Prom, Teen Prom and Your Prom to discover what "trends" they are pushing this season. After the jump, prepare to be terrified by the best (aka - worst) stories of Prom Season 2008.
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Prom Season Brings Out The Best In Bad Taste
Ah, can you smell it? Sticky backseats of limos, overpriced steak dinners, cheap corsages, cheaper perfume, and lost virginity: Yes, prom season is among us. (Though to be frank: I went to the prom both years with a gay guy, so my virginity was plenty intact the morning after, but that's another story.) Prom season = prom magazines, so this weekend, I pored over the pages of Teen Vogue's prom issue, the special edition CosmoGirl! Prom, Teen Prom and Your Prom to discover what "trends" they are pushing this season. After the jump, prepare to be terrified by the best (aka - worst) stories of Prom Season 2008.
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Lauren Conrad's "Bella" Collection: Just As Bad As "City Of Angels"
Question about Lauren Conrad. Why does she think she is so talented that she has to put out not one but two Spring 2008 collections? Remember her first Spring '08, collection? "City of Angels"? There was nary an angelic look to be seen, but there were plenty of overpriced jersey dresses. And shocker, her second Spring '08 collection, Bella, is not bella at all. But there are plenty of overpriced jersey dresses! (For example, the Lala dress, at left, which retails for $110.) Another idiotic collection from your favorite cast member of The Hills that we are sure will not be appearing in Teen Vogue any time soon, after the jump. More »
Gossip Girls
Holy shit! Jezebel is Serena's favorite website. Kinda...uh... subversive for a Teen Vogue cover girl?! We are shocked and awed. Maria calls this a "ZOMG moment." Dodai, a connoisseur of the fine literature upon which Gossip Girl is based, was less sanguine: "See, if you read the books then you would think that Serena doesn't even read blogs, she's such a free spirit! Vanessa would read Jezebel." [The CW]
Holy shit! Jezebel is Serena's favorite website. Kinda...uh... subversive for a Teen Vogue cover girl?! We are shocked and awed. Maria calls this a "ZOMG moment." Dodai, a connoisseur of the fine literature upon which Gossip Girl is based, was less sanguine: "See, if you read the books then you would think that Serena doesn't even read blogs, she's such a free spirit! Vanessa would read Jezebel." [The CW]
We're not sure whether to laugh or cry at this, but Ellen Page will grace the cover of Teen Vogue. (This will probably, and hopefully, be the only time in her life that Ellen follows in Lauren Conrad's hallowed footsteps.) We trust that Ellen will remain as wonderfully salty as she normally is and that she scandalizes Wintour's army of Voguettes with talk of her haunted whorehouse. [Fashionista]
rag trade
Teen Vogue's Amy Astley Resolves To Stop Consuming The Mindsquelching Ephemeral Cultureporn She Dishes Out '08
- Teen Vogue editor in chief Amy Astley's New Year's Resolution is to read more books in lieu of the New York Post and break her kids of their Disney Channel habit. Because what you are offering the culture is sooooo motherfucking wholesome and thought-provoking, Amy Astley. [WWD
- Jude Law maybe to play Halston in a biopic about the designer. [Fashionista]
- Rapey designer Anand Jon's sister thinks every one of the 30 women accusing him of sexual assault is a gold-digging whore. [Times Of India]
- Every time you order champagne you are probably only lining the pockets of Scarlett Johansson, if you think about it. Maybe get high instead? [WSJ]
teens
Teen Vogue Readers On Getting h0rny: "I Just Think Of That Episode Of Sex & The City..."
Teen Vogue message board readers may not be big fans of food for consumption purposes, but that doesn't mean they have no use for the stuff, according to a recent thread we'll have you guess the topic of:i do it all the time it just feels so good and ou cant get and sexualy transmitted diseases by doing so just have fun this is TMI but i used a zucchine once o wow it was so goodMore tips from the fingers of Teen Vogue readers (Ex: "just dont go around doing it in public like a crazy homeless new yorker! lol") after the jump.
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rag trade
Proenza Schouler Designers Want To Be Just Like Us
- We don't think we can design clothes, so why do clothing designers think they can blog? The Proenza Schouler boys, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, will be blogging for the New York Times's T: Style magazine's new site all this week. Says T's online editor, "One of the things I'm trying to avoid is solipsistic navel-gazing." Um, good luck with that! [Fashion Week Daily]
- What would you do with $15 million? If you're Mr. Dolce and Mr. Gabbana, you use it to give your New York flagship store a little make-over! [WWD, sub req'd]
- And apparently it took $15 fucking million for Mr. Dolce and Mr. Gabbana to haul their Italian booties here to New York. The designers will be back in New York for the first time in two years to celebrate the re-opening of their store at a private dinner tomorrow night. No, we weren't invited. [NYP]
- Say what you will about Sarah Jessica Parker, but at least she understands decorum. Of super low-rise jeans she says, "There is not going to be any inappropriate midriff showing, regardless of age," she says. "It's provocative in a way that I just don't feel comfortable with." Also? Kind of 5 years ago. [Daily Express]
Mining Goldsmith
A West Coast reader got access to Teen Vogue intern and possible new Hills cast member/ Whitney replacer Jenna Goldsmith's restricted facebook profile and gives us the lowdown. Jenna's favorite quote? "Legs are the new cleavage." Our California mole continues, "She's a Business Administration Major (snooze) and she sits in the corner laughing it up with all the frat boys during class." Intriguing! Ms. Goldsmith also says she's employed by Vogue and that she's a "freelancer." Sounds like someone's embarrassed to be an intern!! What, is she too good to share Lauren's intern closet? Fashionista's got her ear to the ground about Whitney-gate, and she's been hearing that Whitney is interviewing for a gig at W, where she would be working alongside ex Hills evildoer-intern Emily Weiss. Know anything about any of these girls? Hit us up at tips@jezebel.com.
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A West Coast reader got access to Teen Vogue intern and possible new Hills cast member/ Whitney replacer Jenna Goldsmith's restricted facebook profile and gives us the lowdown. Jenna's favorite quote? "Legs are the new cleavage." Our California mole continues, "She's a Business Administration Major (snooze) and she sits in the corner laughing it up with all the frat boys during class." Intriguing! Ms. Goldsmith also says she's employed by Vogue and that she's a "freelancer." Sounds like someone's embarrassed to be an intern!! What, is she too good to share Lauren's intern closet? Fashionista's got her ear to the ground about Whitney-gate, and she's been hearing that Whitney is interviewing for a gig at W, where she would be working alongside ex Hills evildoer-intern Emily Weiss. Know anything about any of these girls? Hit us up at tips@jezebel.com.
[Fashionista]
the hills
Meet Jenna Goldsmith, The New Bitch In Teen Vogue's Intern Closet
In Wednesday's Midweek Madness, we relayed the Star item about Whitney Port is getting kicked off of The Hills. A source says Whit doesn't know it yet, but they've already started shooting scenes with her replacement. What we left out is the alleged scab's name: Jenna Goldsmith. According to her Teen Vogue blog, Jenna (USC, class of '09) loves a little black dress, skinny jeans, leggings and leather jackets. (And the Hills supposedly canned Whitney for being too vanilla?? This girl sounds like straight up beige.) More »
wasted youths
"People Move On To Coke, Starting At About Fifteen. It's At Every Party We Go To."
"This," says Chloe, sitting on a mahogany bench and looking around the expansive marble and brass-accented lobby, "this is how we live." That's the last line of "Drinking Diaries," a story in next month's Teen Vogue, in which Eva Chen goes drinking with high schoolers in San Francisco and New York and, well, I would say she compares them, but that would make it sound more service-y than it actually is. It's hard to say exactly how much they drink, but she makes it sound like a lot. In San Francisco, for instance, she goes to a Japanese place with what seem to be five kids who order "eleven 40-ounce bottles of Japanese beer and eleven bottles of hot sake" — and you're like, "For reals, the Japanese make forties?" — but whatevs, that's nothing compared to what happens back in New York the night she gets a text-message from "Chloe""My friend, "Audrey", if visiting from boarding school," it reads. "And when she's here, Things Happen.Holy mother dude, again, really? Capital-T-Things, capital H Happen? More »
the week that was
The World Continues To Be An Unsafe Place For Womyn
- This week we learned about poor 13-year-old Megan Meier, who committed suicide after being harassed on myspace by pretty much the worst people on the planet masquerading as parents and members of a civilized society.
- Also, some other misguided teenagers posted pro-ana messages on Teen Vogue's website.
- You know who else is proud of themselves for not eating? Models! Shocker!
- Earlier, Kanye West's Kanye West's mom died and it made us all want to sob like little, tired children.
- Then an ass-faced rapist won Big Brother: Africa and it made us stabby.
- But look on the bright side! We'll always have adorable Project Runway hippie Elisa and her pooing fabric.
- And the comment that covers pretty much all the bases we missed award goes to some brand-new person named Durgalicious. Welcome! And get procrastinating!
- [Obligatory invitation to turn to binge drinking]
