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Vanity Fair Fashion Director Can Add Self To "Stylish Casualties" List

Michael Roberts, the Vanity Fair fashion and style director who attributed the uproar over the sexy Miley Cyrus photos to unsophisticated Americans who don't handle "chic pictures" as well as his fellow Europeans, is not just dispensing cultural criticism through the media: he has a book coming out! And in a fun coincidence, the 112-page tome is going to be called Fashion Victims: The Catty Catalogue of Stylish Casualties, from A to Z. Perhaps he'll add a section addressing the fact that "The whole kiddie porn prurient angle seems to be worryingly sour grapes from other magazines that didn't get a picture like this." After all, at Vanity Fair "We don't do cheesy teen pictures. We do chic pictures and pictures that are beautiful portraits." Alrighty then. Just for kicks, another now-ironic quote from last October's Telegraph profile of Roberts: More »

2:02 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
1,686 views, 14 comments

Latest by Jeremy: Is he wearing a short-sleeved shirt with a skinny tie? Isn't that enough to take away his fashion credentials? more »

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Snotty European Prolongs Vanity Fair's Miley Debacle

Michael Roberts (pictured, probably pointing to something refined and beautiful) was the fashion and style director on Vanity Fair's creepy Miley Cyrus shoot. And instead of letting the fiasco die out quietly, he spoke out to WWD to reveal the real reason behind the outcry: sour grapes, and a bunch of American clods with an insufficient sense of sophistication! Europeans aren't like that, he'll have you know:
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11:49 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
7,824 views, 52 comments

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Fashion Santa Visits the All the Good Boys and Girls

What wonders occur at the doors of 4 Times Square? A spy reports on a magical, holiday moment from yesterday afternoon: More »

8:56 AM on Thu Aug 10 2006
By Jessica
133 views, 2 comments