September’s 916-page Vogue induced in us a medical crisis (two crises, if you count the hernia we sustained while carrying it from the mailbox). After reading contributor Lynn Yaeger’s piece on her prosopagnosia, commonly known as face blindness, we began to fret that we, too, were afflicted. Ms. Yaeger admits that she didn’t even recognize Read More
“Does anyone have a cigarette?” model Erin Wasson requested of anyone who was listening, after a surprise performance by Alison Goldfrapp during the fifth-anniversary for Viktor & Rolf‘s fragrance, Flowerbomb, at a private townhouse on Grove Street last night. (Ms. Goldfrapp was bedecked, gloriously, in one of the tulle confections from Viktor & Rolf’s spring/summer Read More
Lynn Yaeger (the highly recognizable fashion writer who had a Village Voice column for more than 30 years) gives The Inside Source a peek into her daily life.
The routine:
Here is what I do every single morning, in between teeth-brushing and waiting for the coffee to boil: I turn on my Read More
It’s been a long, cold, economically devastating winter, but at Elaine’s on Tuesday night for Patrick McMullan‘s party celebrating his 20 years with Interview magazine, the crowd was partying as though the events of the past few months were a bad hallucination. Or maybe everyone was hibernating in St. Barths, Tulum, Vermont, upstate New York, Read More
If Lynn Yaeger could change anything about Dec. 30, 2008, the day that she was abruptly laid off from The Village Voice—aside, of course, from not getting fired—it would be her outfit. In retrospect, Ms. Yaeger said she wished she hadn’t been wearing a bulky red crinoline dress with a black velvet skirt over it Read More
The Village Voice has laid off legendary fashion writer Lynn Yaeger. [Fashionista]
Cathy Horyn gets to the bottom of what’s wrong with Vogue. (Summary: The magazine has gotten sort of boring.) [NYT]
The clothing company established for Kira Plastinina, the 16-year-old daughter of Russian billionaire Sergei Plastinin, Read More
Beloved New York Times Styles section photographer Bill Cunningham generally avoids interviews. However, at a party held in his honor last night on the third floor of Bergdorf Goodman, several encouraging attendees told us, “He’s in a good mood tonight.”
With that in mind, we gave chase, following the blue-suited Mr. Cunningham through racks Read More
