Posts tagged as Anna Wintour
Inside Anna Wintour's Long Island Home
The always-magical World of Interiors October issue has wended its way to America at last, and? "US Vogue editor Anna Wintour now has a second Long Island bolthole," promises the table of contents. (It would be a coverline of course but that magazine doesn't have words on its cover, which, can you imagine that in America?) That particular rurality is generally described as Bellport, Long Island, except it's decidedly in Shirley. ("I just import the people I want.... I don't mind the town. It's white trash, of course, but I don't care," Wintour famously-and humorously!-once said.) But! However! And! So this guide to ANNA WINTOUR'S RURAL RETREAT is "written" by Anna Wintour herself, except it's "as she explains to Sally Singer." And it's awesome. READ MORE
Alexa Chung Must Go
Tiny Facebook demon-beast Alexa Chung, hired to host MTV's daily "Twitter with Tweens" segment, will soon be gone from our country, as they have got to get her off the airwaves. Now here is an example of the kind of hate that Alexa inspires back in her home country of "England," in an astounding example of literary mountain-molehilling that our British friends do so well. It is an entire piece of old-school gossip column writing about how Anna Wintour gave Alexa Chung a dirty look at a fashion show. Read it and believe in narrative again! Here is just one sentence that should warm your heart: "Coming eyeball to eyeball on the coveted front row, the ice maiden paraded her disdain like a supermodel parading an autumn/winter '09 collection." How wonderful!
The World According to the 'Times' Mag: Manhattan Is Its Media
Leon Wieseltier actually gets to the heart of what bugs me about the New York Times magazine and its artsy sections, writing off the mag's editor answering questions over at the Times. (An example of his answers: "More generally, we reflect a place where change is not a threat, where doubt and complexity are more TRUE than certainty, and where most everything non-criminal is tolerated – except a bad haircut." Um, wow-I mean, I like to go uptown too? But Christ.) READ MORE
Jesus, Who Wrote Maureen Dowd's Sunday Column?
Which helping hands co-wrote The Maureen Dowd Collective's insane, 2003-era rant against Anna Wintour this weekend? We're thinking the high dudgeon screaminess sounds like Alessandra Stanley and Frank Bruni cracking themselves up after a few drinks. (Though Bruni is probably too busy to pitch in on her column right now, what with his book tour.) Plus we're assuming her assistant did the reporting. ("I dunno, call Andre Leon Talley and whoever else one calls usually. Surprise me! Then quote... um, Keith Kelly-he's still alive, right?") But you know: could have been anyone (amped up on a few hits of nitrous) really. Anyway, someone give this funny lady and her funny friends a blog!
The Silly Beleaguered Fashion World Strikes Out Blindly To Save Itself
Oh, this is a wonderful account of the meeting held by the Council of Fashion Designers of America, which is a governing body in a similar way that any burlap bag of drowning cats competing for air and light is as well. Anna Wintour would like America to overhaul a rather immense group of laws so that we might become France; Andre Leon Talley is lotioning up; and pretty much everyone else is out of ideas. Pretty much this is the greatest thing ever written, and we are sorry that the fashion industry is donezo.
