Gawker: suze yalof schwartz

Hey, we're getting surer that new Gawker...

Choire — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:45:01 EDT

Hey, we're getting surer that new Gawker nemesis Suze Yalof Schwartz is the Glamour editor who thinks black "political" hairstyles like afros or dreadlocks are an office "don't." (We're all interested in confirming the identity of this mystery editor, by the way. Go on, chime in!)

Suze Yalof Schwartz Can Suze Our Yalof

Emily Gould — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:10:51 EDT

As you regular readers know, we always welcome your tips! It's a bright spot in our day hearing from you. And if you'd like to direct our attention to something that you yourself have accomplished, well, that's fine! It's okay to toot your own horn once in a while! But you know what's not okay? Being a little bitch like Glamour beauty blogger Suze Yalof Schwartz, who just wanted to make sure we were aware of her hot not-scoop about Ashton Kutcher surprising a random New Yorker by showing up to refurbish his closet, and then got pissy when we didn't run the item.

At 9:42 this morning, Suze sent us an email with no subject line (bad manners, but it happens) with the link to the blog post she'd done today about how some gay (we assume!) dude who works for Glamour sometimes had called her to kvell about how Ashton Kutcher, while in the midst of researching a role, had showed up to redesign his closet. We clicked and were like "Zzzz." Because? Gossip auntie Ben Widdicombe had written about Ashton's "closeted" (oho!) ways all of yesterday ago. (Also: What, Ashton is like, a Method actor now? But with closet carpentry?)

So we ignored Suze's email, sort of like how she ignored any basic forms of email etiquette in writing it. Then an hour later, this from Suze: "Just wanted to let you know that Jossip picked up the story about Ashton."

Oh girl. Did you somehow not know that Choire and Doree and I all have our periods this week? Seriously, no you di int!

Because Choire's the boss, and right now the most levelheaded (he's on day three), he was elected to write back. He wrote: "Didn't page six or R&M pick it up yesterday? Best, C."

A smarter lady than S.Y.S. would have dropped the email chain right there, but Suze isn't smarter than herself, it turns out. "Yes but they didn't have pictures and the story was from the Closet company. By the way : Please thank everyone from me for all the amazing press. It has been so fantastic for Glamour's web traffic. Suze"

Oh no.

Maybe everyone is on their period this week.

'Glamour' Intern Blogfight Disappeared

Emily Gould — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:10:59 EDT

Yesterday, Glamour's "Slaves to Fashion" blogger Ashley Baker posted a response to her colleague Suze Yalof Schwartz's musings about onetime Glamour intern turned fashion blogger Julie Fredrickson. Today you can still see it in Google reader, but it's no longer on the site. Has Ashley been silenced? Maybe a peek at Suze's latest blog post will shed some light. "Big Gap Attack! Thank G-d it wasn't a Big Mac Attack! I am almost at my bikini weight. Here, my tally of yesterday's purchases... Don't tell my husband, hehehe!" Um, so... no. —Emily

Update: Ashley Baker wasn't censored! She censored her own self.

"I found the entire debacle a bit (a bit? OK, a lot) ridiculous and weighed in on my blog (usually a rather light one, I might add) for a hot minute but then, realizing the publicity surrounding it all, opted to remove myself from the, um, debate." Well, that worked.

Earlier:'Glamour' Editor And Former Intern Spar Blogstyle

'Glamour' Editor And Former Intern Spar Blogstyle

Emily Gould — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:51:37 EDT

Glamour executive fashion director at large Suze Yalof Schwartz has some choice words for Julie Fredrickson, who interned at Glamour once upon a time for four days before discovering "just how much like pledging a sorority" the experience is. Julie's now gainfully employed at fashion blog Coutorture, which she co-founded. Suze congratulates her on her success, then calls her out on being a total spoiled brat.

Please! In my day as an assistant, we worked from 8 a.m. until 11 p.m. and later or even 24 hours in a row, without complaint. It was expected that we would run around NYC in search of whatever our editor needed and if we didn't find it, it was pretty much the end of our careers. Saying "no" was not an option and that was the best thing I could have ever learned from any job.

While there is an element of "get on the floor, freshman bitches" to Suze's take, it's also not hard to see her point of view.

Anyone who's gone from being an intern or assistant to having an intern or assistant has probably experienced the same sorority-sisteresque desire to make sure the new kids have it tough, and also, working in fashion is just hard. Julie should've known that, kept her mouth shut, worked hard and played by the rules.

Or wait, should she have? There's an important distinction here that neither of these ladies has bothered to specifically mention: interns don't get paid. Assistants, nominally, do. Julie mentions not being able to hack the insane hours at Glamour and still make it to her part-time job. The moral of the story seems to be that backbreaking fashion internships are just for the wealthy and they won't really get you anywhere fast, so if you want to work in fashion, maybe just start your own website. As even Suze concedes: "Who is laughing now? Coutorture has really taken off and Julie was right to assume that by now, even if she had stuck it out, she would probably still be a coutortured assistant." —Emily

Coutorture [Glamour]
Who's Laughing Now? [Almost Girl]