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Wintour Colleagues Love Mean Drawing Of Her
"Observer owner Jared Kushner bought the original artwork from the illustrator, Victor Juhasz, for Vogue editor at large [André Leon Talley]. At least seven people placed serious bids — two of which were from within Condé Nast." Talley paid several thousand dollars for the artwork. [WWD]
Did Clapton Spurn Wintour?
"During the planning for the [Costume Institute Gala], when honoree Giorgio Armani suggested Eric Clapton as the entertainment, [Vogue editor Anna] Wintour immediately said no. 'It made you think maybe he once rejected her,' said a source. Instead, the hirsute cast from the revival of Hair performed tunes which had nothing to do with the evening's 'superhero' theme." [Post]
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All of the important pretty people got dressed up for the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala, which was themed "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy." Vogue editor Anna Wintour wore the Karl Lagerfeld Chanel dress on the left. Of this creation, Australia's Age said Wintour "got it horribly wrong;" one blogger said it was "one of a kind... which is good because we don't need two of those;" and the diplomatic Times said it "had curiously curling crescents attached at the hips and the shoulders, giving Ms. Wintour... the fuller-bodied appearance of Botticelli’s Venus on her clamshell." Ah, "curious," not the highest of compliments. Anna could use a break, what with the LeBron James King Kong cover, the Rodarte weight thing, getting dissed by European fashionistas, etc. etc. Sad, pitiable Anna. Laugh (at a few more media celebrities' outfits, starting with Katie Holmes, pictured right) through tears (for sad monster Wintour) after the jump.
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Anna Wintour's "Curious" Dress At The Big Ball
All of the important pretty people got dressed up for the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala, which was themed "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy." Vogue editor Anna Wintour wore the Karl Lagerfeld Chanel dress on the left. Of this creation, Australia's Age said Wintour "got it horribly wrong;" one blogger said it was "one of a kind... which is good because we don't need two of those;" and the diplomatic Times said it "had curiously curling crescents attached at the hips and the shoulders, giving Ms. Wintour... the fuller-bodied appearance of Botticelli’s Venus on her clamshell." Ah, "curious," not the highest of compliments. Anna could use a break, what with the LeBron James King Kong cover, the Rodarte weight thing, getting dissed by European fashionistas, etc. etc. Sad, pitiable Anna. Laugh (at a few more media celebrities' outfits, starting with Katie Holmes, pictured right) through tears (for sad monster Wintour) after the jump.
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Loathsome TV Characters Fashioned After Loathsome Real Life Characters
Ever wonder what the inspiration is behind the fashions on Gossip Girl (other than "money" and "bright enough colors to attract fourteen year olds and macaws")?? Well Vanity Fair recently interviewed the show's costumers, Eric Daman and assistant costume designer Meredith Markworth-Pollack, and they divulged their interests and inspirations. Kate Moss, she of the cocaine-aura, is the inspiration for messy-chic Serena, while Anna Wintour and Audrey Hepburn inform Blair's buttoned-up old New York styling. Put them together and who do Daman and Markworth-Pollack envision? New York's favorite stream of consciousness-talking socialite, Tinsley Mortimer! [VF] A choice quote from the interview after the jump. More »
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"Just Roll Me Up Your Sweater. It'll Come Right Off!"
["Vogue" editor Anna Wintour at opening night of the Met's "La Fille Du Regiment" last night; image via Splash]
Vogue Intern Makes $2 Million Per Year
"Star New York Ranger and man-about-town Sean Avery is out to build up his résumé this summer — by interning at Vogue... He wrote a letter to Anna Wintour expressing his desire to work there... Avery likely will work with a variety of editors, including European editor at large Hamish Bowles. There's also talk of him working at Men's Vogue. And the spokesman claimed that, like most interns, the 28-year-old Avery will be expected to do traditional assistantlike tasks." [WWD]
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Miss Manners' Lesson For Anna Wintour
The rich and famous old ladies of the website WowOWow were talking about privacy and stalkers, and the book The Devil Wears Prada came up as a cautionary tale: Beware your office servants! Devil, of course, was written by a former assistant to Vogue editor Anna Wintour and was believed to be a lightly fictionalized portrayal of Wintour. WowOWow's Judith Martin, aka Miss Maners, described the book as "a huge argument for separating your business life from your personal life. Your personal assistant — so-called personal — should not be doing things in your private life and therefore she wouldn’t be privy, or he wouldn’t be privy to it." Oh, excellent: This is exactly the sort of catty backbiting we had hoped for from WowOWow. A lengthier exchange: More »
The Assistant Weds
Anybody seen Lauren Weisberger's wedding photographs? The Devil Wears Prada author was married this weekend in the Caribbean. We're assuming Anna Wintour, Weisberger's former boss at Vogue and a model of the icy fashion editor in her book, wasn't invited.
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"He's Going to Introduce Me to Some Prostitutes!"
[Vogue editrix Anna Wintour with fashion designer and former hooker-dater Marc Jacobs at an event at the Brooklyn (hey that's where I live!) museum; image via Queerty. Another image after the jump.] More »
vogue's king kong cover
Today's Observer contains a smart, if depressing, package of stories on the fading glories of the magazine industry, but the weekly saved its cruelest cut for the front page, where appeared the parody at left of Vogue's infamous LeBron James cover (click for larger version). The message: if anyone deserves to be compared to a crazed monster it is the notoriously demanding Wintour, with her ostensible boss Si Newhouse along for the ride. The illustration, by Victor Juhasz, capped a rough few months for Wintour, who was publicly dissed by fashion's priesthood during a recent trip to Europe, then faced uproar over her recent weight-loss outreach to two female designers and is now grappling with fallout from the James cover. After the jump, a large version of the parody cover, and the object of said parody.
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Anna Wintour, Pitiable Monster
Today's Observer contains a smart, if depressing, package of stories on the fading glories of the magazine industry, but the weekly saved its cruelest cut for the front page, where appeared the parody at left of Vogue's infamous LeBron James cover (click for larger version). The message: if anyone deserves to be compared to a crazed monster it is the notoriously demanding Wintour, with her ostensible boss Si Newhouse along for the ride. The illustration, by Victor Juhasz, capped a rough few months for Wintour, who was publicly dissed by fashion's priesthood during a recent trip to Europe, then faced uproar over her recent weight-loss outreach to two female designers and is now grappling with fallout from the James cover. After the jump, a large version of the parody cover, and the object of said parody.
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Why Harvey Weinstein Thinks He Owns New York Media
After yesterday's story about a New York magazine critic apologizing to Harvey Weinstein, and the critic's suspect assertion that his apology was independent of the sharp-elbowed former Miramax chief, we heard from a well-placed media veteran who said Weinstein has long loved to brag about his ability to extract such concessions, and in fact about how he effectively owns New York media. It turns out the bragging is not entirely without reason. Said the tipster: "Name any media outlet and there is a 'best friend/recent connection that I [Weinstein] can call to kill stories/get a retraction' from." It didn't take a lot of digging to figure out what the source meant. A quick rundown of Weinstein's top-of-the-masthead connections: More »
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No cheezburgers fer U, fatteh. [Ryder Ripps]
Limecat Wintour Not Interested In Details Of Ur Incompetence
No cheezburgers fer U, fatteh. [Ryder Ripps]
vogue's kong cover
I had thought this was a fuss about nothing. But when you look at the images side-by-side, it's pretty obvious that Vogue's latest cover featuring LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen is indeed a sly homage by Annie Leibovitz to King Kong. In fact, the references by photographer Annie Leibowitz to one image in particular, identified earlier this week by a tipster to Jezebel, are unmistakeable. This First World War army recruitment poster—urging loyal Americans to destroy a "mad brute"—features a Kong-like gorilla with a right arm holding a weapon and a left gripping a virginal white beauty. It's much like the position basketball star LeBron assumes on the Vogue cover.
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Time For Leibovitz To Confess
I had thought this was a fuss about nothing. But when you look at the images side-by-side, it's pretty obvious that Vogue's latest cover featuring LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen is indeed a sly homage by Annie Leibovitz to King Kong. In fact, the references by photographer Annie Leibowitz to one image in particular, identified earlier this week by a tipster to Jezebel, are unmistakeable. This First World War army recruitment poster—urging loyal Americans to destroy a "mad brute"—features a Kong-like gorilla with a right arm holding a weapon and a left gripping a virginal white beauty. It's much like the position basketball star LeBron assumes on the Vogue cover.
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race relations
When Vogue put LeBron James on the cover it was innovative: a black man on the cover of a magazine aimed at rich, white women? Anna Wintour's still got it. But now, the fallout. Didn't LeBron James sort of look like King-Kong? And why does that pretty white girl looked so scared? Oh no, racial stereotypes being reinforced on the cover of Vogue, a place normally dedicated to reinforcing an unattainable ideal of beauty. And it gets worse: James's mouth was agape, just like Jennifer Hudson's was on the March cover. Controversy!
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Black People Smile Like This
When Vogue put LeBron James on the cover it was innovative: a black man on the cover of a magazine aimed at rich, white women? Anna Wintour's still got it. But now, the fallout. Didn't LeBron James sort of look like King-Kong? And why does that pretty white girl looked so scared? Oh no, racial stereotypes being reinforced on the cover of Vogue, a place normally dedicated to reinforcing an unattainable ideal of beauty. And it gets worse: James's mouth was agape, just like Jennifer Hudson's was on the March cover. Controversy!
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Anna Wintour Right, Designers Were Fatties, Says Fatties Expert
The Times today found a professor of eating disorders to back up Vogue editrix Anna Wintour, who last fall told the sisters behind fashion house Rodarte they should lose some weight. Wintour put them on a four-month training regimen that saw them drop a combined 50 pounds, the sisters (pictured at left, after/before) wrote up the whole experience for April Vogue and body-image outrage ensued at sister site Jezebel. Everyone needs to calm down, said University of North Carolina professor Cynthia Bulik: More »
Pale, Thin, Entirely Lacking in Joyfulness
Anna Wintour complains, in her editor's letter in the upcoming issue of Vogue, that the models at the New York runway shows are "pale and thin, entirely lacking in... joyfulness and charm." I thought that was the example the legendarily frosty fashion arbiter was herself setting.
Anna Wintour complains, in her editor's letter in the upcoming issue of Vogue, that the models at the New York runway shows are "pale and thin, entirely lacking in... joyfulness and charm." I thought that was the example the legendarily frosty fashion arbiter was herself setting.
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Robert Downey Jr. Bringing Back Blackface
- Actor Robert Downey Jr. is about to be in blackface in a movie, but it's totally OK because it's so meta: Downey will not wear blackface to pretend to be black; he will wear blackface to pretend to be a white actor pretending to be black. Totally different. [Film School Rejects via Digg]
- Singer Britney Spears' father Jamie will continue to run most of her life through the end of July, meaning her insanity will continue a steady decline that has so far mirrored falls in the dollar and stock market. Coincidence? [AP]
- As predicted by everyone in the entire world, model and famed assistant-beater Naomi Campbell flipped out when she found out news of her gynecological surgery in Brazil leaked: "Naomi was in an absolute fury that word had gotten out... The female nurse who brought her breakfast one day left the room in tears after Naomi cursed her out.” [ShowbizSpy quoting National Enquirer]
- Here's a picture of actress Angelina Jolie at an airport looking busty and otherwise pregnant. [Sun]
- Page Six has banished Patrick Swayze's rep to its Liars' Corner for saying a hospital admission earlier this month was for a "gastrointenstinal procedure" when in fact the star had pancreatic cancer. [P6]
- Movie star couple Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon are in your darkened movie theater, fucking around with their BlackBerrys. Who's a cute couple now? [P6]
- Now that he's all fit and a war hero and everything, Prince Harry's girlfriend takes him back. [Sun]
- Anna Wintour has been hanging out with basketball star and Ralph Lauren fan LeBron James before she puts him on the cover of Vogue. [P6]
- Maybe he really will, finally, lose the Neverland Ranch: singer Michael Jackson said to be looting his home before it is seized. [Showbiz Spy]
- Former rich kid Brandon Davis now asking for free drinks in bars. [P6]
