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Dodai — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:20:00 EST

Is Isla Fisher a mermaid? This blog thinks that is the only explanation for her off-kilter, spine-wrenching, torso-angling pose on the cover of In Style UK. Click to enlarge. [Shakesville]

New In Style Editor: Ariel Foxman

Hamilton Nolan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:27:41 EDT

Ariel Foxman is the new editor of Time Inc's In Style. Foxman spent five years at the magazine previously, leaving in 2003 to edit the men's shopping magazine Cargo. Is a gay male fashion expert a strange choice to lead a magazine with a heavily female readership? "While he may not be a buyer of Manolo Blahniks, he is a keen observer of fashion and popular culture," writes Time Inc. editorial boss John Huey, by way of explanation. Okay! Read Huey's full memo introducing the stylistic Foxman to the staff, after the jump.

To: Time Inc. Employees

From: John Huey

Re: Staff Announcement

On the recommendation of Martha Nelson, I am pleased to announce that
Charla Lawhon has been named Editor of the In Style Group. Ariel
Foxman will succeed Charla as Managing Editor of In Style.

Charla joined In Style in its test phase when it was known simply as
"Project X." Since she became Managing Editor in 2002, she has
overseen a period of great expansion for the In Style brand.

The core magazine continues to be a powerhouse. This year, In Style is
up on the newsstand, an impressive achievement in an environment when
every competitor is down. Charla and her team recently completed a
comprehensive redesign, which has been well received by both readers
and advertisers. The international portfolio has grown to 14 editions,
including new launches in 2008 in China, Poland and Romania. In Style
specials (Weddings, Makeover) have increased in frequency to six
issues a year. Charla has also guided the development of InStyle.com
which, in the first half of 2008, averaged 1.1 mm unique visitors per
month, an increase of 69 percent year over year.

Ariel Foxman first joined In Style in 1999 and worked at the magazine
until 2003, when he left the building to become the launch editor of
Cargo. Since his return to Time Inc as an Editor at Large, in 2006,
Ariel has concentrated on In Style and contributed to both the core
magazine and the website. While he may not be a buyer of Manolo
Blahniks, he is a keen observer of fashion and popular culture, a
talented editor who is deeply familiar with In Style and its readers.

Given the size of the In Style business, the demands for growth and
the complexity of the brand, this new arrangement makes sense.
Although this structure is new to In Style, it is familiar at Time
Inc., and has worked effectively at the People Group. I have every
confidence that it will fuel new growth at In Style as well.

I know you'll join me in wishing Charla and Ariel the very best in
their new positions.

J.H.

[pic via NYO]

"Let's talk about your boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri. What does he do?"

Hamilton Nolan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:15:40 EDT

The question in the headline is from InStyle's interview with actress Anne Hathaway in its upcoming issue. And we have a scan of it! To recap: Hathaway broke up with Follieri last week, and yesterday he was arrested on wire fraud and money laundering charges. So it must be so weird for her to have this interview coming out in which she gushes about cooking pasta for Follieri and throwing awesome dinner parties with him (not any more though, cause of the whole house arrest thing). Such unfortunate timing. Click through for a large version of the awk-ward InStyle page:

Terrence Howard Thinks Women Are Unclean And Dressed Like Whores

Dodai — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:45:00 EDT

The new issue of Elle has an interview with Oscar-nominated actor Terrence Howard. Mr. Howard, of Hustle & Flow and Crash fame, is attractive, that goes without saying. But his thoughts and opinions? Not so much! Some snippets from Elle:

"I like women who look like me. Generally, you're attracted to women who look like you, because the most beautiful thing in nature is your own reflection."

On his relationship philosophy:

"If a relationship is built on sexuality, it won't last long. Now I'm completely chaste through a relationship unless I get married. I don't believe in premarital sex. It enabled me to date three or four women at the same time, because as long as I wasn't having sex with them, I could always just walk away. There were some [past girlfriends] who pushed for sex, and sometimes they won. Afterward, I would feel unclean, like I'd compromised my own values. So I would have to let them go because they didn't help me to be a stronger person."

On his deal-breaker:

"Toilet paper - and no baby wipes - in the bathroom. If they're using dry paper, they aren't washing all of themselves. It's just unclean. So if I go in a woman's house and see the toilet paper there, I'll explain this. And if she doesn't make the adjustment to baby wipes, I'll know she's not completely clean."

On his divorce:

"I was in love with her, but she was not in love with me. I can't be upset because she doesn't find me the most beautiful thing on the planet."

Jezebel's own Anna Holmes was once fortunate enough to interview Mr. Howard for InStyle, and came away with the impression that he hates women. (That part didn't make it into her article!) For one, says Anna, during the interview, Mr. Howard was going through his closet and showing her his favorite clothes — when her arm brushed his. Mr. Howard flinched and said he didn't like "being touched". Other gems? When railing against how 'far" women's fashion has gone — "We've lost modesty" — Mr. Howard told Anna that seeing women dressed provocatively creates a response in him that he can't respond to in a 'natural' way. (Meaning that rape is illegal?). "He then made a comment that women who expose their 'titties' to the public have no right to get angry if people — maybe him? — make remarks about it," she continues. "He said something like 'What's worse, someone exposing themselves or someone commenting on it? Who committed the first sin?'"

Howard's Zen [Elle]

'InStyle' Tells Staff To Look, But Not Touch, The Jamie-Lynn Sigler

Doree Shafrir — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:15:56 EDT

A most important email missive just went out to the staff at InStyle. An actress who was on the Most Important Television Show Of Our Time will be in the office! But please don't get too close.

Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 1:16 PM Subject: Actress Jamie Lyn [sic] Sigler coming Importance: High
She will be here in the large conference room shortly. You can go and see her. Please sit quietly if the editors are talking to her. You can take photos, but ASK her permission first.

And if everyone behaves themselves, there'll be extra cookies at snacktime!

Are Alexander Payne And Misanthropic Fashionista Blogger Alice Kim A Pairing?

Moe — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:20:29 EDT

Former In Style Accessories Director and lead 'View From The Fourth Row' blogger suspect Alice Kim is leaving In Style for Omaha, Nebraska, in a development that probably involves internationally-acclaimed "spiritual healer" Dawn Christie and may also concern native Nebraskan and Korean-proclivitor Alexander Payne. (Yeah, that Alexander Payne! Guess we're all going to the wrong cocktail parties, huh?) If true, this sheds light on her mysterious decision, announced last month, to move to Nebraska to open a boutique targeting the white-hot Omaha fashionista population. Apparently the store is still happening, with some financial help from her parents — and also, so it happens, her co-workers! Late last week, an informer tells us, Alice held a little "cubicle sale" of all the free swag she raked in during her years "covering" the luxury leather goods industry. So here's an ethical question: how much of a markup do you charge the employees who suspect you of relentlessly anonymously trashing them on your bitchy fashion blog as you depart for a charmed new life with a Hollywood golden child?

Answer: A lot!

According to a source at In Style, the first item Alice sold was a Burberry bag for which she asked — and received! — $900. Why didn't she sell it on eBay like all the other editors? When's she going to come out about her blog? Will Payne's ex-wife Sandra Oh play Alice in View From The Fourth Row, the critically-fellated indie film chock-full of self-absorbed, merlot-hating fashion world misanthropes? Developing!

Earlier: 'In Style' Accessorian And Champion Bluffer Alice Kim Leaving For Omaha

Conrad Black Even Swears Like Nixon

abalk2 — Mon, 21 May 2007 10:20:26 EDT

In an interview with the Guardian, Conrad Black calls his fraud trial "bullshit" and announces that he's at war with the U.S. government. The paper also has an excerpt from Black's forthcoming biography of Richard Nixon, which praises the former president's "surpassing dignity." Read into that what you will. [Guardian]

Fashion mag ad pages sales: Count Vogue, W, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire, Lucky, Men's Health, Men's Journal, and (maybe) Details and Teen Vogue as winners. Your losers: Esquire, InStyle, Seventeen, Cosmogirl, and Maxim. [WWD]

San Francisco Chronicle to cut 100 jobs, or 25% of the staff. [WSJ]

The business magazine segment is getting too crowded. That's bad news for titles like Business 2.0. [AdAge]

AM New York, Metro take their battle to the web. We've just realized that the guys at the subway entrances shoving their papers at you are the real world equivalent of pop-up ads. [NYT]

Time Warner shareholders passed resolutions calling for more control over the company's decisions. CEO Dick Parsons says the board will "carefully consider" the proposals, which sounds a lot like "no way in hell" to us. [WSJ]

Former Bloomberg employee Jon Friedman says that Bloomberg has nothing to worry about from the recent Thomson-Reuters merger. [MarketWatch]

Simon Dumenco: "The print-media industry is not only filled with f—k-ups, it coddles them." [AdAge]

Who reads England's Daily Mail? The paper says "web-savvy early adopters," the paper's critics say "troglodytic, white van-driving bigots." [Independent]

Former veep Dan Quayle wrote a book review for the weekend Wall Street Journal. Insert your own spelling joke here. [NYT]

Is Jane Pratt headed west? The former Sassy/Jane editor has put her townhouse on the market for $3.65 million. She once had sex with Drew Barrymore, you know. [NYM]

September Issues: Fall Fashion Weigh-In #3

Jessica — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:00:06 EDT

You see that? That's 28.5 POUNDS OF MAGAZINE. 28.5 lbs. is the ridiculous sum total of all our fall fashion magazine weigh-ins; the combined weight of these 13 glossies exceeds that of all the models who appear in them.

But anyhow: Last night we made our last trip to the newsstand for magazine-weighing purposes; naturally, it was our most grueling burden. But, for the sake of research, we lugged 13.5 pounds of aspirational luxury back to HQ and added them to the monstrous pile. Our back could be feeling better, thanks.

After the jump, the final weigh-in, featuring heavyweight champ Vogue and the other fatties.

Notes:
• Good to see Bazaar hanging in there with the African queen.
• Fuck you, Vogue.
• You know exactly why we included Details.

Earlier: September Issues: The First Fall Fashion Weigh-In
September Issues: Fall Fashion Weigh-In #2