Back in March, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons posted a report indicating that while the demand for plastic surgery procedures was down because of the recession, injectible beauty products like Botox were faring better.
Cosmetic procedures, the organization reported, dropped 9 percent in 2008 to 1.7 million. Breast augmentation fell 12 percent, liposuction Read More
Over the past few years, age-conscious Manhattanites have filled their faces with all kinds of crazy stuff, from Botox to hyaluronic acids to fat from their own saddlebags. But recently, Jennifer, a slender 50-year-old who works on Wall Street, decided to plump up her cheeks with a new collagen called Evolence, made from pig tendons, Read More
I’m totally haggard. What I’m really trying to say is, I’m totally Ted Haggard—or rather, I’m totally jealous of Ted Haggard. Last week, the former crystal-meth-snorting, hustler-hiring evangelist declared that he is now, after three weeks of counseling, “completely heterosexual.” What a huge relief this must be for the poor bloke. How much simpler and Read More
Remember the roaring 80’s? That age of takeover titans and M&A gods, when excess blew into the city on the wings of leveraged buyouts and cocaine dust? It seemed, at the time, like an era of endless, priceless ostentation. Each day brought the announcement of a new merger, and each merger sparked a spree of Read More
A few years ago, I spent an afternoon on the Upper East Side with a keen-eyed Frenchman during his maiden trip to New York. There were marvels aplenty, but at the end of the day he had developed a single fixation: What was up with the old people? They looked taut and shiny and strange. Read More
Who’s Had Work? Alex Kuczynski had a book party on Thursday. Her book is about plastic surgery. The Transom thought it would be funny to go up to random blondes and say, “Alex, it’s a pleasure to meet you, loved the book.” (Get it? Like she was unrecognizable from the knife?) But the first two Read More
Who’s Had Work? Alex Kuczynski had a book party on Thursday. Her book is about plastic surgery. The Transom thought it would be funny to go up to random blondes and say, “Alex, it’s a pleasure to meet you, loved the book.” (Get it? Like she was unrecognizable from the knife?) But the first two Read More
Who’s Had Work? Alex Kuczynski had a book party on Thursday. Her book is about plastic surgery. The Transom thought it would be funny to go up to random blondes and say, “Alex, it’s a pleasure to meet you, loved the book.” (Get it? Like she was unrecognizable from the knife?) But the first two Read More
Who’s Had Work? Alex Kuczynski had a book party on Thursday. Her book is about plastic surgery. The Transom thought it would be funny to go up to random blondes and say, “Alex, it’s a pleasure to meet you, loved the book.” (Get it? Like she was unrecognizable from the knife?) But the first two Read More
Who’s Had Work?
Alex Kuczynski had a book party on Thursday. Her book is about plastic surgery. The Transom thought it would be funny to go up to random blondes and say, “Alex, it’s a pleasure to meet you, loved the book.” (Get it? Like she was unrecognizable from the knife?) But the first two Read More
“Not to compare myself to Simone de Beauvoir—who is, you know, this vast intellectual heroine—but I remember reading something that she said about when The Second Sex came out in France, and that she just was mocked to death,” said the author, professor, former video artist and feminist pundit Laura Kipnis. It was the eve Read More
“Not to compare myself to Simone de Beauvoir—who is, you know, this vast intellectual heroine—but I remember reading something that she said about when The Second Sex came out in France, and that she just was mocked to death,” said the author, professor, former video artist and feminist pundit Laura Kipnis.
It was the eve Read More
There are certain grand historical fights that you think are over, tucked into the quaint Snoopy lunchbox of the past like a Capri Sun or bologna sandwich. Remember the Dalkon Shield I.U.D. uproar of the 1970’s, with its controversial whiff of scientific profit over women’s safety? Or what about the silicone-breast-implant scandals of the early Read More
I have ugly heels. I didn’t know this until a few years ago, when the fashion gods, in their wisdom, condemned to death the part of a woman’s shoe that once concealed this area. As far as I can tell from my extensive research, this shoe part doesn’t have a name. Whatever you call it, Read More
I have ugly heels. I didn’t know this until a few years ago, when the fashion gods, in their wisdom, condemned to death the part of a woman’s shoe that once concealed this area. As far as I can tell from my extensive research, this shoe part doesn’t have a name. Whatever you call it, Read More
