Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Robert Downey Jr. is bringing his trademark cool/crazy to the role of a lifetime, Mr. Peanut. As in Planters. RDJ’s apparently so jazzed about the role he’s taken to wearing a monocle and top hat. And nothing else.
Edited by Hilary Beck
COLOR ME SHOCKED!!! Professional French sleaze Olivier Zahm loves women, but not in, like, a degrading way, bro. All those gratuitous shots of bedraggled naked chicks in Purple? It’s avant-garde, get it?
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
The New York Times reports that several states are contemplating a ban on the greatest invention in the field of caffeinated booze, Four Loko, just because a few pussy college students got alcohol poisoning. Go big or go to the hospital.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
While female models are becoming more feminine and curvaceous, The New York Times is reporting that male models are following a similar trend.
Edited by McArthur Joseph
This sounds like a harsh claim, but reading their articles about the latest mens trends makes think they have hired my 50 something year old father as a writer. What brings on this unbridled rant? The answer is their new article about men rolling up there pants. Keep reading…
Edited by Rebecca Alexander
Julianne Moore is featured in the new edition of T Magazine, read the interview here.
Edited by Rebecca Alexander
Natalie Portman wore a Rodarte for Target, the exact one I wanted which was sold out, dress on the red carpet the 9th Annual New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend event last week. I think she looks super cute!
Edited by Hillary Frazier
Terrible or not (okay, terrible), everyone seems to hate Lindsay Lohan and Ungaro. Good thing it was just for publicity? Here’s what the big guns had to say about it:
1.) The Washington Post: “The collection was dominated by fuchsia. It included safety-orange ruched leggings, heart prints, genie pants and heart-shaped glittering pasties. It lacked finesse, sophistication, technical skill and any evidence of good taste. Everyone involved seemed in over their head — swept up in a giant publicity-spewing machine.”
2.) WSJ: “it was hard to imagine that Ms. Lohan and Archs could concoct a collection that is as cringe-worthy as this. Some models appeared on the runway with glittering heart-shaped pasties on their nipples, worn under blazers. Others wore the pasties on their foreheads. Highlights included hot pink streetwalker dresses, an unending hearts motif, and a skintight white mini dress so short that the model’s cheeks hung below the hemline.”
3.) Style.com: “This quickly devolved into a bad joke of a fashion show, one with questionable color combinations, “bad eighties” draped silk jackets and drop-crotch pants, old-fashioned and ill-judged fur stoles, and, yes, tasteless sequin pasties. To top it off, the fabrics and the construction lacked the finesse you expect from a famous Avenue Montaigne brand.”
4.) WWD: “As for the clothes, they looked cheesy and dated … Hot pink, orange and flashy, with an overworked heart motif relentless in its execution, the collection displayed none of the promised younger side Lohan was supposed to deliver. Nor in a million years would one guess that the lineup was designed by one young woman and “creative directed” by another. Glitter heart pasties all around, ladies?“
5.) The New York Times: “Ms. Lohan’s arrival at a 45-year-old Paris house known for $1,500 dresses and a tradition of couture craftsmanship is entirely different, something akin to a McDonald’s fry cook taking the reins of a three-star Michelin restaurant.”
LOL.
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The New York Times’ Eric Wilson in his review of Emanuel Ungaro:“But Ms. Lohan’s arrival at a 45-year-old Paris house known for $1,500 dresses and a tradition of couture craftsmanship is entirely different, something akin to a McDonald’s fry cook taking the reins of a three-star Michelin restaurant.”
Edited by Hillary Frazier
The New York Times “Critical Shopper” columnist Cintra Wilson had a field day with the JC Penney store that opened in Herald Square. See what she had to say:
It took me a long time to find a size 2 among the racks. There are, however, abundant size 10’s, 12’s and 16’s. The dressing rooms are big, clean and well tended. I tried two fairly cute items: a modified domino-print swing dress with padded shoulders by American Living (a Ralph Lauren line created for Penney’s) and a long psychedelic muumuu of a style generally worn by Rachel Zoe. Each was around $80; each fit nicely and looked good. I didn’t buy either because I can do better for $80, but if I were a size 18, I’d have rejoiced.
Ouch. That’s harsh.
[I]t has the most obese mannequins I have ever seen. They probably need special insulin-based epoxy injections just to make their limbs stay on. It’s like a headless wax museum devoted entirely to the cast of “Roseanne.”
Wow, even worse.
A good 96 percent of the Penney’s inventory is made of polyester. The few clothing items that are made of cotton make a sincere point of being cotton and tell you earnestly about their 100-percent cottonness with faux-hand-scribbled labels so obviously on the Green bandwagon they practically spit pine cones.
Who do you think you are Cintra Wilson? Do you guys think this was a fair review?
