@suck_it_monkeys: I think he actually says, "Anna, the winter(Wintour) gets cold; en (in) vogue with your skin out." I just caught this reference at the gym this morning. Part of the long tradition of hip hop "metaphors" that don't entirely make sense, but can be clever (like this one) or lame (like countless others).
@suck_it_monkeys: It makes sense -- the whole verse is about young women who come to New York all innocent and get caught up in the high life. So take the lyrics as written, and he's just continuing to paint the picture: those girls you see huddled outside of clubs in mid-January wearing miniskirts and sexy little jackets, freezing their asses off while they wait for some guy to hail them a cab. Now take the lyrics as they sound, and it adds another layer: they're models, or they want to be, they're just fashionable accessories and all people value them for are their looks. Bonus points for magazine title wordplay in a song about New York, which, at least if you're in the industry, can feel like it lives and breathes magazines.
I just noticed that yesterday when I was listening to that song! It made me laugh aloud, and the guy walking next to me gave me a sidelong look and slunk farther away. Hee.
Lady Gaga reminds me of the girls who happily brag that they spent their rent money on a pair of Jimmy Choos. It wasn't cute when Carrie Bradshaw made such statements and nowadays, it's just incredibly annoying and insensitive.
Dear Lady Gaga,
Investing all of your money into clothing when you only have one CD out is a bad idea. I love you. I don't want you to disappear. I feel like you're lying to me. You say that you're spending "all" of your money on clothes, but then who is paying for your drugs?
Whatever, I don't care about that. I'm just worried about you. Let's do the choreography to Poker Face sometime, okay?
Love,
Dallifornia
When the British Design Council do move fashion week to Somerset House, many people will find themselves oddly familiar with the place, having seen it as an outdoor location for countless period films and television series. Coincidentally, Pedro Almodovar held the premiere of his latest film there. He later said Somerset House was the most the beautiful venue he had ever held a premiere in and in stark contrast to the original open air cinema venues of his childhood.
If I had the power to award gold medals to creepy Hollywood perverts, I'd definitely give one to Michael Bay. He is really out-perverting the compeition this year. Just perverting them right out of the water.
Alexis Bledel is another one of my crushes that's been unbroken over the last decade - except when she was involved with the boat incident. And when she cheated with Dean. I hope she and Logan are happy together.
Ah, Kate Moss. Wearing the same facial expression since 1992. Seriously, that cover is atrocious, is this really the best Moss, Testino and Vogue could come up with?
@NefariousNewt: I assumed that the models would be the ones exploding. And then we could all discuss on Jezebel how exploding a woman in a commercial is both feminist AND anti-feminist.
@NefariousNewt: I don't think she knows what it means to go bankrupt. She probably just meant she spent all of her money. I don't think it's possible to go bankrupt four times.
@Eleanor Ramilly: I'm thinking, since it's clear she doesn't know how to handle money in the first place. Her definition of "bankrupt" is perchance, suspect.
@NefariousNewt: I'm all for exaggerating to make oneself sound cooler but this is just stupid and clearly a lie. I don't know a lot about finance but if 11th grade economics class and MTV True Life: I'm in Debt were right you only get to go bankrupt once, maybe twice.
@NefariousNewt: What bothers me about that statement is that she makes sound like that it is no big deal to file for bankruptcy, to run out money: Hey look here I don’t have money, I spent it all in my art. People already have skew views about money (specially younger generations which is her fan base) and being so blasé about it does not help anyone.
I can't believe you covered the Daphne Guinness interview in today's WWD and DIDN'T reprint this awesome exchange:
WWD: "How would you describe your style?"
DG: "Regular. Stuff that fits."
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Investing all of your money into clothing when you only have one CD out is a bad idea. I love you. I don't want you to disappear. I feel like you're lying to me. You say that you're spending "all" of your money on clothes, but then who is paying for your drugs?
Whatever, I don't care about that. I'm just worried about you. Let's do the choreography to Poker Face sometime, okay?
Love,
Dallifornia
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This is a logical choice as everyone knows, they've got legs and they know how to use them.
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How, exactly, has she managed to pull that off? In different countries?
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WWD: "How would you describe your style?"
DG: "Regular. Stuff that fits."
WWD: "But you're wearing 7 inch platforms."