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By Benjamin-Emile Le Hay 2/11 3:26pm

Fashion Week Observed

Julie Ragolia and Carlos Campos at his autumn 2011 presentation.

Stylist and Fashion Consultant Julie Ragolia Goes Giddy for Barney’s and Hates on Bloggers

 

 

Julie Ragolia has seen more stars in their skivvies than you could dream of! After sinking her teeth at MTV and a slew of glossies eons ago, she moved up the nasty and competitive ladder of fashion editorial... These days, she serves as the fashion editor of 7th Man Magazine and styles mega-stars, such as Rihanna and Sean Combs. Despite his Napoleon complex, street photo Scott Schuman even made her the cover girl of his treasured tome, The Satorialist. The Observer tried to find out if she gets to sleep with any celebs and what exactly stylists do aside from playing with clothes and acting bitchy in the Prada showroom... Read More
By Sarah Khuwaja 2/10 4:41pm

Fashion Week Observed

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Perfect for that Spence ten year reunion.

Barking Dogs and Preppy Collegiates at Douglas Hannant’s Pink Collection

We arrived a half-hour after the Douglas Hannant show was scheduled to begin, so, naturally, we were right on time. Disarray is the name of the game five minutes to fashion show time, and we were there at minute four; publicists and handlers were shooing people gently into seats and clearing the runway. The unexpected Upper East Side meets East Village crowd sparked our interest; monochromatic and sophisticated peppered with bohemian grunge makes for some absorbing people watching. Read More

1 By Kat Stoeffel 2/10 12:10pm

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Greg Kelly’s Triumphant Return to Good Day New York

Greg Kelly was all smiles on Good Day New York this morning, the anchor's first broadcast since rape allegations against him were made public on January 25. The son of police commissioner Ray Kelly thanked Fox 5, his family, friends and viewers for their support during the "tough couple of weeks." The Manhattan district attorney's office announced they would not bring charges on Tuesday. Read More

1 By Kat Stoeffel 2/09 9:52am

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Thought Catalog Finally Gets the Forbes Profile It Deserves

Thought Catalog is an experimental media company that sells display advertising against millennial eagerness to convert their personal lives into shareable content without any compensation other than the social capital of being liked and followed. Media critics who mistake it for a generational literary manifesto often find themselves mired in irrational hatred of the website when, really, they ought to save their breath for Thought Catalog's obvious progenitor, Facebook. The true sign that a company's ambitions are more business-oriented than artistic—insofar as Thought Catalog can be considered such—is coverage in the capitalist bible Forbes. Which it now has.  Read More

5 By Foster Kamer 2/08 3:06pm

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Thought Catalog Finally Gets The Parody Twitter It Deserves: Thinking Catalog

Thought Catalog is a self-important blog that ostensibly allows young writers to indulge themselves but is actually the inadvertent and hilarious "slut-shaming" of forthcoming MFA aspirants' bad writing that they'll no doubt want erased from the internet by the time they decide they need to get rejected from Iowa to move on with their lives. But, as demonstrated, irrational hatred of a website can only take one so far. The true sign of a becoming a success—insofar as Thought Catalog's can be considered such—is a parody Twitter. Which they now have. Read More

1 By Kat Stoeffel 2/08 10:38am

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A better incident for longform magazine journalism could hardly be imagined. (image via Esquire.com)

Zoo’s Company: The Story Behind the Men’s Mag Zanesville Story Smackdown

While the Giants clinched victory down in Indianapolis Sunday night, a contest of editorial mettle was taking place between New York’s top men’s magazines.

Shortly before kick-off, The New York Times reported that Hearst’s Esquire would post a movie-style trailer for a March print story about the Zanesville zoo massacre (remember when that suicidal exotic animal collector released 56 dangerous animals into a small town in Ohio?) along with a preview of the piece by Chris Jones. The latest in a series of editorial widgets (last month’s: a QR code on cover boy Bill Clinton’s crotch!), the trailer was designed to build buzz and boost sales of the print issue. The full story and a longer trailer would be online later, according to The Times. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 2/07 6:53pm

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BlackBook Editor Joshua David Stein to Revamp Front of Book and Release an Album

Newly appointed BlackBook editor in chief Joshua David Stein is looking forward to writing for an audience that’s a little bit more like him. For the last year, he’s been senior editor at Departures and Black Ink, the glossy magazines distributed to the wealthiest American Express card holders.

“I’m not a billionaire,” Mr. Stein told Off the Record last week. “This job’s not going to make me a billionaire. Or a millionaire for that matter!”

Mr. Stein’s new boss at the arts and culture starter magazine, on the other hand, is definitely a billionaire. Last month, BlackBook Media Corp. was bought by grocery magnate Ron Burkle and his investment partner, Magic Johnson. Mr. Stein didn’t have much to say about the acquisition, except that it means more money and better resources for the magazine, side-by-side with Mr. Burkle’s current holdings, Vibe, Uptown and the reportedly lucrative Access Network media software company. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 2/07 5:12pm

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MIU MIU Presents Lucrecia Martel's "Muta" - Red Carpet

Tavi ‘Toon Croons Neil Young Tune at The Standard on Sunday

On the eve of Fashion Week, style rookie-no-more Tavi Gevinson will be in town to promote a project that flaunts her little-known, nonsartorial gifts: acting and singing.

On Sunday, up-and-coming Chicago director Jonah Ansell (best known, to date, for his viral save-the-date wedding video, which was featured in Glamour) will screen his animated short film Cadaver for a select audience at The Standard East Village.

Based on a poem Mr. Ansell wrote to help his sister fulfill a creative assignment at Northwestern's medical school, the seven-minute film, which stars Ms. Gevinson, Kathy Bates and Christopher Lloyd, is about a cadaver that comes back to life to say goodbye to his wife. When he decided to develop the story into a short film, Ms. Gevinson, a family friend of Mr. Ansell, was his first pick for the lead, a young doctor. Read More