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TroisFilles
10/24/09

In reply to More Layoffs Hit Conde Last Night: Women's Wear Daily
My God, is McKinsey a one trick pony? "Let people go..." It's revolting. I am so sorry for the people losing their jobs. #journalismism
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Phyllis Nefler
10/24/09

@TroisFilles: As I understand it they didn't specifically decree letting people go. They gave magazines budget targets (cut by 25%, etc) that, yes, definitely necessitated some personnel trims but that also could have been reached via more diversified cost cutting efforts. #journalismism
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TroisFilles
10/25/09

@Phyllis Nefler: I'm exhausted by hearing about friends and family without jobs, going months and months - into years - without ever finding a job as lucrative or with as good a benefit package. Are we all supposed to be hourly independent freelancers? That opens the insurance problems - tax issues - that extra 7% you have to pay into "self employment tax" kills a lot of folks come April. We can't all write for the blogs and Internet. I do - and I can tell you it's a lot of show and not a lot of dough. At least we MADE magazines - a real product. Everything is so ethereal now - poof! Nothing there to touch. Like jobs. I hope you're safe. TF. #journalismism
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Phyllis Nefler
10/25/09

@TroisFilles: Totally agree. I work in an industry that is pretty much just as fucked as the media, so I feel your pain! #journalismism
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scion07
10/24/09

In reply to More Layoffs Hit Conde Last Night: Women's Wear Daily
I worked for Conde' for almost 7 years...they are cutting alot of their staff in Wilmington, De....I being one of them....they are management heavy down here in their Shared Service Center!
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TheBusinessGuy
10/24/09

In reply to More Layoffs Hit Conde Last Night: Women's Wear Daily
The death march continues. #journalismism
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Seeräuber Jenny
09/28/09

In reply to Peter Braunstein: Four Years Later
Next up: Charles Manson is actually not a very nice man.
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Seeräuber Jenny
09/28/09

In reply to Peter Braunstein: Four Years Later
"Once a psycho, always a psycho."

Well, that's subtle and objective. I didn't watch the video, as it took too long to load.

It actually is more effective to allow the reader to reach certain conclusions instead of being pounded on the head with them.

He's sick. The point is?

And "co-worker's" takes an apostrophe.
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Liberace
09/28/09

In reply to Peter Braunstein: Four Years Later
"This is just scary."
"We can't even be scared."

so... you want I should be scared, or not even be scared?

based on what you wrote...both?

Braunstein is a moron who is desperate for attention, and the Daily News is just using him (like everyone else did apparently) in order to get some attention for themselves.

Unless he has some awesome scheme for breaking out of Dannemora and nuking the city, why should anyone be scared?

It's pretty sad for the people who he victimized and continues to mention by name that people just won't ignore this sad sack.
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Seeräuber Jenny
09/28/09

@Liberace:

Agreed; a pointless piece.
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erinna
09/27/09

In reply to Peter Braunstein: Four Years Later
Great, I just triple checked every lock in my apartment and I'm gonna have to sleep with the lights on for a least a month thanks to that video.
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Seeräuber Jenny
09/28/09

@erinna:

The article is idle fear-mongering. Of course you should take normal precautions, but he lured the victim from her apartment by setting fires or smoke bombs and posing as a firefighter.

How are you going to protect yourself from someone as crazily inventive and evil as that?
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triplethreat
08/21/09

In reply to Rachel Zoe: Laying Out Clothes For Celebrities Will Kill You
You obv haven't seen the show which is totally charming. So she's obsessed with clothes, so what? She obviously knows a ton about fashion (the scene where she spots a dress at a vintage store and instantly knows that it is Chloe, plus what year and that that was when Lagerfeld designed for them shows) and it good at her job (the scene where she comes out of the Chanel show and has a list of the looks she wants and for which person). She was kind to her employees even when they were childish and/or screwups.

It's so boring when Gawker wants to take ppl down just for the sake of doing it.
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SeaBassTian
08/20/09

In reply to Rachel Zoe: Laying Out Clothes For Celebrities Will Kill You
OK, I didn't have the patience to read the puff piece on WWD, but that photo next to the article gave me pause. At first, I thought that it might be an old pic of Kylie Minogue from the early 90's. Methinks that somebody got carried away with Adobe Photoshop. I don't mean to be rude, but IRL, you could say that she resembles "Annie" Leibovitz's younger, skinnier, trendier sister. Perhaps, the real urge to drape herself in high fashion might be an indication that she doesn't really have confidence in her natural beauty. But nobody should be subjected to the taunts of Raisin Face. No wonder the girl has issues!
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noonecaresowen
08/20/09

In reply to Rachel Zoe: Laying Out Clothes For Celebrities Will Kill You
A friend of mine worked for her a few years ago and - honestly - had the nicest things to say about her, and that none of this stuff is true. She does, um, forget to eat, though.
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tigolbitties
08/20/09

In reply to Rachel Zoe: Laying Out Clothes For Celebrities Will Kill You
those shoes are amazing! (and the antithesis of her face, what with their shiny smoothness and all...) anyway, i was wondering, as one who routinely wears 4+ inch heels, is there a way to walk in them that does not involve mincing my steps?
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Proofer3
08/20/09

@tigolbitties: If you actually do that ridiculous hip-jutting model stride, you can walk in heels for hours. I don't want it to be true, but it is.
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Lazy Susan
08/20/09

@tigolbitties: What difference? Face and foot both say 'Hooker'.
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lacieca01
08/20/09

@tigolbitties: Actually the mincing walk is part of the point of heels, from an anthropological standpoint. Sort of the way an injured bird sets off the attack response in a cat, the little bitty steps suggest to the rampant male that this female is not going to be able to run very far or fast.

If you prefer to look at it from the socioeconomic angle, heels are an indicator of status and wealth, because a woman who has to take those teeny steps obviously has lots of leisure time she can conspicuously consume getting from point A to point B.

Slow small even steps in heels can look quite elegant and not mincing at all. But, again, it's going to take you forever to get where you're going that way.
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tigolbitties
08/20/09

@Proofer3: thank you! i will practice that tonight before unleashing it on the public! i welcome any opportunity to look ridiculous! @lacieca01: that's some knowledge you've dropped this morning! i will share these nuggets next time my friends make fun of me for walking so slowly... i am definitely not running very far, or well, not at all actually...
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tigolbitties
08/20/09

@Lazy Susan: ha, i meant a textural difference...
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Proofer3
08/20/09

@tigolbitties: As a serious heel-wearer (I wore flats for decades until I developed achilles tendonitis and now I HAVE to wear heels - Irony!) it's all about getting your centre of balance right. Staying tall, tucking your bum in and shifting your centre of gravity forward propels you. I live in a very hilly city, and I can now run around anywhere in 3 inch heels. The anthropological/socioeconomic arguments are poppycock. They're just SHOES.
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buffythevampireplayer
08/20/09

In reply to Rachel Zoe: Laying Out Clothes For Celebrities Will Kill You
Well, she is routinely referred to as "Raisin Face". That's kind of harsh.
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tribalpottery
08/20/09

In reply to Rachel Zoe: Laying Out Clothes For Celebrities Will Kill You
I mean how hard can it be do to her job?! Rachel Zoe makes people wear over-sized caftans and printed muumuus with humongous, bug-shaped sunglasses (ie Nicole Richie). Every red carpet look seems like the same InStyle magazine cliche with off-the-shoulder/backless Grecian/40s Hollywood glamour/pouf Lacroix-like latest couture cocktail/ballgown dress w/flowing shiny hair. Maybe it's just me as a gay man, but I could do her job in blindfolded in a coma with only ink-stained chopsticks in my mouth to communicate via sketch drawings and still have time to do something more meaningful and productive.
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
08/20/09

@tribalpottery: I actually felt a moment of sympthy for her - thank you for correcting me
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theysaidwhat
08/20/09

@tribalpottery: They don't all look the same, no. And anyone who ever worked a crap retail apparel job in college can tell you how difficult it is to convince someone to wear items that actually flatter them, rather than the latest trend or their bad habit of years and years.

A big part of Zoe's value is the relationships she has with designers so she can get the dresses before anyone else has access to them.
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BowlingForDollars
08/19/09

In reply to Rachel Zoe: Laying Out Clothes For Celebrities Will Kill You
Hmmm, I dunno. I was all ready to hate her show and was ready for her schadenfreude moment, when I actually found myself liking her.

She needs to stop it with her 70's fashion though. It's so done.
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ElleL
08/19/09

In reply to Rachel Zoe: Laying Out Clothes For Celebrities Will Kill You
It can't kill me because I DIE.
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BabyJewn
08/20/09

@ElleL:
But, do you SHUT IT DOWN?
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