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Atoosa Rubenstein's Last Minute E-Shopping Nightmare Before Christmas
Alpha kitty and fancy kept woman Atoosa Rubenstein is too busy to shop for her Christmas presents in the real world: "I've got things to do, places to be, an online fashion series to launch on Friday." Cannot. Wait. In the meantime, though, we can follow Atoosa's clicking from one department store website to another via her 'Creative Consumer' column. The goal here isn't bargain-hunting, she explains: "I'd rather pay double whatever those early-morning shoppers saved to avoid the rush. Yes, it's a luxury even to make a statement like that. But this column is about just that: cyber-shopping the luxury market." Despite this stated cash-burning ethos, though, the 'Toos is not all about frivolity. "For a shopping site to get an Alpha Kitty Meow of Approval ... it really ought to have a charity (or at least a green) component." More »
Like Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson announcing their divorce, the Times has tried to sneak very important news past us while we're all dazed and Thanksgiven and unable to process things! That's right: the 100 Notable Books of 2007 list is out. Actually maybe it is meant to help you with your holiday shopping, which you must begin today because God said so in the Bible. Anyway, the list includes all of the usual suspects, and also Vendela Vida. [NYT]
From the mailbag: "Update from the jimmy choo sale. I'm scared. There is no order, and with at least 30 mins to go, there r about 100 women standing around, pissed."
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New York's Women Are Enslaved To Kim France
Boutiques! They're in, New York mag tells us this week. Generally found in such areas as the West Village, Cobble Hill, and Williamsburg, these usually woman-owned mini-stores cater to a particular population of twenty and thirtysomething women. Not quite hipsters, not quite preps, not quite socialites (or wannabes), these women—who toil in such industries as publishing (book and magazine, of course), advertising, and PR, with the odd teacher or non-profit employee thrown in (and maybe a lawyer looking for some weekend outfits)—will spend hundreds on the perfect pair of boots, or on a handbag. They own premium denim, but not anything immediately recognizable from the back pockets. They wear skirts and dresses, but avoid looking overly "girly." It's because the prevailing aesthetic among this demographic has become dictated almost entirely by Lucky magazine.More »
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Meet The God Of Whole Foods Union Square
That the Whole Foods on the Bowery is the most poppin' pick-up spot for the young, wealthy and healthy has been agreed since the very day that store opened in late March. Already we're entering into the second trimester of Whole Foods Bowery-conceived babies—foeti with names like Kale and Geoduck. In today's Sun Annie Karni notes the smooth moves of the fellas. More »
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Could Condoleezza Rice Be President?
In an otherwise decent New York Times Book Review appraisal of Twice As Good, a new biography about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the Guardian's Jonathan Freedland displays the tin ear so many of his compatriots (the
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Home Shopping Network Rescues Lower Broadway From Jerzmoms
You know Scoop, the Manhattan boutique chain for people who have a lot of money, but not a lot of ability to think about how to put their own outfits together? Well, fans of it are in luck: many of the items available there are now also available on the Home Shopping Network. Several items, including bangle braclets, cowboy hats, and a flowy scarf, are already sold out! Says a commenter on HSN's website about that last item, "Please bring these back in the brown. I NEED one to match my dress." Settle down, lady! There are plenty more $125 crystal-studded flip flops and Poupette Printed Silk Ponchos With Rope Belts where these came from. And that's a good thing! Anything that keeps the demographic of "ladies who coming in to New York to shop on the weekends because they consider themselves just a LITTLE more classy than their Juicy-tracksuited neighbors ... but not much" at home on their Westchester couches is fine by us.
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Picking The Peter Braunstein Photos That Best Meet Your Needs
Yesterday at Peter Braunstein's trial for kidnapping and sexual assault, jurors were treated to a series of readings from his personal journals. Braunstein's personal manifesto provided a chilling journey into the mind of a blah blah blah—the important thing is that both of the tabs have evidentiary photos! More »
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Hotties Go Shopping With 'Marie Claire' Mom
Lesley Jane Seymour used to edit Marie Claire. The people at Hearst made her stop doing that around this time last year, and now someone else is editing it. Today she wrote a piece for the New York Times
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Dialectical Materialism: Pursuits v. Sunday Styles
Late capitalism produces two kinds of insufferable rich people: New York Times insufferable rich people, with their concerns about Culture and Minorities and the like, and Wall Street Journal insufferable rich people, who mostly just ride around shining. When the markets are open, it can be tough to distinguish the two. But everybody's working for the weekend, which arrives in the bifurcated form of Sunday Styles in the Times and Pursuits in the Journal—both soft-core catalogs of places and things, usually with exact prices attached. So, who's buying better shit?More »
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Brooklyn Boutiques and the White People Who Shop in Them
Because poor Yankee Cory Lidle had to go and fly his plane into an Upper East Side building yesterday afternoon, there were some noteworthy things we didn't have a chance to get to but definitely deserve mention: More »
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'Lucky' and 'New York' Remind You to Spend Your Money
At a New York magazine's first Best Bets shopping event yesterday, shoppers lined up to buy discounted products brought to you by New York editors' recommendation (or maybe secretly by advertisers). Gotham Hall, where WWD reports the event was held (though the Best Bets event site says the Altman Building, so we don't know nor care enough to resolve the issue), is also the venue for next month's Lucky Shops, a similar event sponsored by Lucky, the magazine most responsible for young women's crippling credit card debt. So Lucky sent a street team, clad in white Lucky sweatshirts, to hand out fliers to shoppers coming in and out of the Best Bets bonanza. New York wasn't having any of that — particularly not coming from individuals so misguided as to be wearing white sweatshirts — and so the flier-mongers were asked to leave. They repositioned themselves across the street, however, and continued to litter the streets with their capitalist propaganda. Bitches. More »
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Daily Candy Off the Block, Finds Minority Crackhead Investor
Well look who's got themselves a new sugar daddy: the pretty ladies at Daily Candy have found themselves a minority investor valuing the company at $130 million. Back in February, Daily Candy's controlling investor Bob Pittman put the trendy email service on the auction block with a minimum bid of $100 million — but the ballsy number was enough to scare off the New York Times Co., News Corp., and Hearst. Instead, the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is no longer for sale, the ladies having decided to whore themselves to just one minority investment, the money from which shall go towards maintaining their well-stocked closets. More »
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Alex Kuczynski Knows the Pain of Emotional Desolation
In her I Get Paid to Spend Money column today, Times painted lady Alex Kuczynski skips over to Henri Bendel, the Fifth Avenue temple that serves as a "limitless warehouse of luxury and desire." But this column is not about the onyx flash of Kuczynski's AmEx, nor is it really about her dissatisfaction with the store's lack of a "coherent identity." Instead, Alex wants to share her sadness, the incomparable misery of self-realization: More »
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We'd Rather Not Know About Fresh Direct's Warehouses
State senator Jeff Klein has released his "Dirty Dozen" list of New York's 12 most disgusting groceries, three of which are in Manhattan: Associated on West 14th Street, American Fu Zhou Grocery on East Broadway, and the Second Avenue Rite Aid on the Upper East Side. Apparently there's not much to say about Chinatown (or, oddly, Rite Aid?), but Associated gets a little explanation: More »
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Cate Edwards: Political Scion, 'VF' Assistant, and Adorable Urbanista
Today in heartwarming internet upstart stories: meet Urbanista, an online shopping rolodex designed to help the well-heeled girlies of New York hunt down the best tailors, doctors, boutiques and whatnot, all compiled from the opinions of some 1,000 ladies who lunch. As the Urbanistas say, "a hip 20-something is totally going to trust her besties' advice over Google" when figuring out where to get her "Marc Jacobs shoes re-heeled." (And if you don't have MJ shoes, precious, we really don't know how you can even get out of your Portica canopy bed in the morning.) More »
deborah schoeneman
We mentioned earlier that 4% Famous author Deborah Schoeneman has been doing book signings in DKNY stores nationwide, as reported in USA Today. "For me, it's great exposure," Schoeneman told the paper. Oh, is it? Shortly after that post went up, a New York media type on vacation in Southern California emailed in this anecdote:
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Deb Schoeneman Not Moving DKNY Merch in the O.C.
We mentioned earlier that 4% Famous author Deborah Schoeneman has been doing book signings in DKNY stores nationwide, as reported in USA Today. "For me, it's great exposure," Schoeneman told the paper. Oh, is it? Shortly after that post went up, a New York media type on vacation in Southern California emailed in this anecdote:
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