Before "Joanna of Staten Island" was outed by you commenters for being a, um, very confusing but real and earnest person, a few of you suggested her gushing letter to Vogue over its Keira-In-Africa spread might have actually been a sinister plot to win a bet with her friends over who could get a letter to Vogue… Read more
Remember that super-tasteful Keira Knightley-in-Africa (with-Vuitton-clad-elephant) spread we hearted so much in June's Vogue? Well, it's September, meaning the readers get their chance to weigh in, and every letter is a fucking gem. Click on the tag above for "Joanna from Staten Island"'s take. Read more
A branch of the Iranian military was just added to our official "Terrorism Watch list." What's become of all the…
We usually try to forget that Paul Westerberg is married, which is why we avoided this CNN story on his wife's…
That issue of Allure with Britney Spears on the cover is here, and she looks... so seductive. So come-hither. That…
Is the news somehow goth today? Is the whole world on a Morrissey kick? Don Rumsfeld's favorite word was the theme…
Marie Claire leaves us the most consistently conflicted of all the ladymags. It sometimes has fascinating stories…
This we'll say for wedding dresses: they're predictable, monochromatic garments you buy more on the basis of quality…
Breaking! The Elle magazine offices are being evacuated due to smoke, according to a reader in the building. "Everyone in the fashion department smokes," a former Elle insider tells us, suggesting the incident could be a redux of the great Vanity Fair inferno of 2004. Another theory: Nina Garcia's head spontaneously… Read more
Sure, as the fashion mag world can testify: racism still exists. But a former Vogue staffer's call into a public…
Two professors who are obviously much smarter than us agree with our assertion that the Design "Piracy" Prohibition Act (virtual air quotes ours) meant to protect fashion designers from copyright infringement is a really dumb idea because, duh, fashion is inherently a business about audacious copying. "If [New York… Read more
The latest issue of troubled, fashiony-business magazine Portfolio takes a long walk through the empire of…
The latest issue of Glamour advises readers use Kimble leave-in conditioner followed by a flat iron followed by a…
It's Wedding Week at Jezebel! Not only are Anna, Jennie and Moe all headed — bliss! — to far-flung festivals of…
It was a day of victory for Republicans you've never heard of, and defeat for Republicans you know all too well. It…
Last week, after we heard news that one of those local lit-chiks was shopping around a memoir, Thanks For Coming,…
Should certain fashion aesthetics be the domain of fat chicks? A message board campaign attempts to preserve "rockabilly" for fat chicks, while ceding "electroclash", "goth" and "SATC" styles of dress to "skinny-to-mediums." Offers one message board poster: "i don't know, i think a fat girl has no chance with goth… Read more