The Kids Today at Fashion Week @1:11 PM
Over the weekend, I went to the QVC show at the Bryant Park tents; it starred a new fashion line from Rachel Zoe. It was sort of amazing? (I wrote about this elsewhere.) One thing I love about TV sets—because this three-hour runway show was of course most importantly a QVC selling show—in general is how much staging there is of things that we wouldn't notice, unless they were wrong. And on Saturday, the producers were having serious trouble with the stylish kids they'd put in the front row behind their main camera. READ MORE 5
Anecdotage: Small Mexican Businesses Suffering Due To Swine Flu Fear @3:37 PM
According to an exclusive interview by an Awl correspondent with a taco truck vendor in Walla Walla, Washington this afternoon—population 30,000, and where about 1 in 5 residents are Latino and the rest are white—business is down about 40% right now. The purveyor of fine taco products said it was because the white people are afraid of the Mexican flu! Good job with the hysteria, TV! 15
