Who’s Sitting Where in Invesco Field Press Box?

Even this populist Democratic National Convention has a seating chart, and therefore a social hierarchy.

According to the DNC’s rubric, The Washington Post is deserving of the better seat than The Times, and Jezebel and Glamour deserve a closer seat than The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones and Portfolio.

First, a little background. There’s Read More

Lieve for the Moment! Glamour Editor Cindi Welcomes Lebowitz, Colbert, Ephron to Mag’s Big Night

It felt like a huge sorority reunion at the party before Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year Awards at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday, Nov. 5—but for the comfortingly pantsuited presence of Vanity Fair contributing writer Fran Lebowitz. Did she have an opinion about her colleague Christopher Hitchens’ infamous declaration that most women weren’t funny? Read More

Stephen Colbert Goes Glam, Writers’ Strike Be Damned

Last evening, as the writers’ strike got into full swing and late-night talk shows halted production, one comedian found a venue for his work. Stephen Colbert was tapped to introduce House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at Glamour‘s Women of the Year awards, where she received special recognition from the Conde Nast title. So for one night, Read More

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 11th

Fashion Week traipses on, leaving every female in its wake feeling bad about her body , except us (honey, an awkward silence would be comfortable in our body). It’s been two days since Oscar de la Renta’s show, and a week since we ruffled his ruffles by implying that he’d tacked Read More

You Really Like Me! (Or the Coat?)

The red coat entered my closet a few years back. I can’t say how it got there or I will lose a relative. The first time I wore it was on New Year’s Eve, 1997. People stared at me.

It’s floor-length. It’s wool. It is very fitted. Wearing it is like walking around with a Read More