Edited by Lester Brathwaite
- Here’s a shocker: breast implants are more popular than ever. Over the past decade, boob jobs have, ahem, increased, by 40 percent, while lipo, nose jobs and face-lifts have all declined in popularity. But fear not, America, you’re still as vain as ever; botox injections have increased a whopping 584 percent since 2000. Thanks almost exclusively to Bravo‘s Real Housewives. [NY Times]
- I’m loving Tyra Banks: Harvard student. She lives in the dorms, eats in the cafeteria and wakes up daily at 730 for study sessions with her classmates. Not only that, she’s never too busy to help out her fellow students : “I’m giving a billionaire that has a business that’s been in his family for 300 years—I’m giving him advice about strategy! Or how to penetrate the American market!” And don’t forget, how to sit without sitting. [NY Mag]
- Riccardo Tisci would have turned down his post at Givenchy had it not been for one pesky little factor: his mom. Turns out Mama Tisci was on the verge of selling her house and moving into a retirement home: “When I heard that it was like a knife in my heart. I felt like such a failure, that my mother had to sell the house of my father whom I don’t remember. And then I went to Paris, and they showed me a contract with all these zeros on it, and it was like help from God. I thought ‘If I sign this, my mother will never have to worry again.’ So I signed it.” Sometimes all it takes is a mother’s guilt. [Vogue UK]
