Forbes’ 30 Under 30: Or, Why You Should Probably Step Your Game Up

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Aaliyah once said “Age Ain’t Nothin’ but a Number.” Of course she was 15 at the time and boinking R. Kelly, but that’s neither here nor there. Forbes Magazine, always list-happy, doesn’t believe in that mantra and therefore decided to rank the top 30 “disrupters” under 30 years of age, each in twelve categories, including art, media, music, energy, finance and technology. And just after I had finished going through my quarter-life crisis — looks like I (once again!) picked the wrong day to stop huffing glue.

INDIE NEWSROOM: Carine Starting Her Own Magazine!…SJP Hags It Up for S Moda…Scott Schuman is Kind of a Dick

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

- Carine Roitfeld, by the Grace of Coddington, is coming back to the magazine world: ”I would love to do four times a year. Initially, I wanted it on the Internet, but it’s a lot of investment, a lot of time, I do not know if it suits me. I know that now you have to work with the Internet, and the photos are of very good quality on the iPad, but things quickly go out of style on the Internet. We’ll start with print. A September issue next Fall, in English.” [Fashionologie]

Tavi Gevinson Seeks Babysitter, Nay, Managing Editor

Edited by Samantha Lim

Style prodigy Tavi Gevinson is seeking a managing editor for her website Rookiemag.com and it could be you.  A great step for the next blogger that wants to make it big, the stay-at-home job would be a crash course in editor training. Do you have what it takes to be a Rookie? {WWD}

Miu Miu Celebrates Vogue Fashion’s Night Out in High 1940s Style

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

How about a little friendly competition for Vogue Fashion’s Night Out? Miu Miu wants you to join them along with hosts Shala Monroque, bloggers Tavi Gevinson, Jane and Judy Aldridge and young socialites Harry and Peter Brant for “Miu Miu Muses Night.” To celebrate the 3rd anniversary of FNO on September 8, the Italian fashion house is inviting ladies to channel her own interpretation of the 1940’s infused Autumn/Winter 2011 fashion show. This costume contest, happening simultaneously in New York and Milan, is an event you don’t want to miss.

No Love Lost Between Lady Gaga and Cathy Horyn

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

When Lady Gaga‘s video for “Edge of Glory” premiered, New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn, never one to mince words, was not having it:

In a week, I told myself, Lady Gaga’s vintage Versace studs…will be history. If that. “Never be afraid to dream,” she tweeted to her followers, but I had already unfollowed, like a skiff breaking from its moorings. Goodbye!

Now Gaga returns the favor in her latest column for V Magazine.

Net-a-Porter Ranks Most Powerful Blogs, FashionIndie Snubbed Once Again

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Online super retailer Net-a-Porter asked a panel of industry experts, including Paper Magazine‘s Mickey Boardman, gal about town and Harper’s Bazaar Editor-at-Large Derek Blasberg and Bloglovin’ founder Mattias Swenson to select their top ten favorite blogs. If FashionIndie hadn’t done enough coke at 54 to powder the nose of every actress in Hollywood ten times over thus rendering all emotions dead below the larynx, our feelings would be super hurt right now. Check out the list below, if you care to (you shouldn’t).

FASHION SCRAMBLE: Prada Makes a Bundle+Reflections of an Aging 14-Year-Old+Malawi Mad at Madge

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

- Prada had a record sales year in 2010 with a net profit of $336 million — that’s an over 150% increase from the previous year. Which means next season, instead of monkeys and bananas, Prada dresses will just feature prints of Miuccia making it rain over the Leaning Tower of Pisa. [WWD]

5 Things FashionIndie Loves/Hates About NYFW

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

We here at FashionIndie are a passionate bunch. We love to love and love to hate and do both pretty indiscriminately. After an impromptu poll around l’office, we came up with this list of grievances and gratitudes regarding Fashion Week.