In the “Here We Go Again” category, another month, another headline on layoffs at the big publishing houses. It is hard to imagine who will be left to write about a perfume review. It is hard to see just how many more staff members can be fired from a company becomes dysfunctional. Applying the same… Continue reading Fabulously Applying the Same Remedy.
Tag: vogue
Met Gala’s Garden
The Met Gala happened yesterday. The ultimate “LOOK AT ME “Red Carpet ceremony went off without a hitch after brokering a last-minute deal averting a strike involving NewsGuild members of Conde Nast employees. Anna Wintour took center stage. The Vogue head has transformed the event into the most important annual fashion ritual on the calendar… Continue reading Met Gala’s Garden
Talley’s Chiffon Trenches
I finally read Andre Leon Talley’s book The Chiffon Trenches, the fashion authority’s memoir published in 2020. The Brown University graduate shows his gift of flowery as well melodramatic language describing his pioneering life in the fabulous stratosphere. However, therein lies the problem with the book. The author weaving the tales got tangled in the… Continue reading Talley’s Chiffon Trenches
Conde Nast does it AGAIN!
Yet again, this time around 5% or around 300 people will get pink slips from Conde Nast’s 5,500 employees. As the New York based publishing house takes “death by a 1,000 cuts” road to profitability, I am starting to get the feeling perhaps it is not the patient but the doctors in charge of treatment.… Continue reading Conde Nast does it AGAIN!
Edward Enninful is IN & OUT
Edward Enninful, Vogue’s first person of color Editor-in-Chief has moved to another position at the publishing house. It was a sort of a shocking announcement, with the usual “thank you for your support” and other clichéd niceties. The Ghanaian born’s new title is “global creative and cultural advisor” for the publishing house. That is a… Continue reading Edward Enninful is IN & OUT
Karl & The Met in the New Gilded Age
Karl Lagerfeld took front and center at the Met Gala 2023. KARL LAGERFELD:A LINE OF BEAUTY was the theme of fashion’s biggest Red Carpet. The legendary German helmed the luxury house Chanel for 37 years. Vogue editor Anna Wintour along with co-hosts Rodger Federer, Dua Lipa, Michaela Coel and Penelope Cruz brought the glitz and… Continue reading Karl & The Met in the New Gilded Age
A Low Octane Met Gala
Of course I reviewed the Red Carpet fashion looks from the 2022 MET GALA. The big event raising money for the Costume Institute in New York City. Vogue Global Editorial Director Anna Wintour reigns over the biggest night in fashion. The theme this year “Gilded Glamor” raised a few eyebrows. The theme was either a… Continue reading A Low Octane Met Gala
Andre Talley-1948-2022
A force in fashion, a larger than life personality, Andre Talley passed away today. A man of many contradictions in an industry based on elitism and privilege, such was the life of an icon who loved fashion along with it all its trappings, from his Louis Vuitton Tennis Towel to friendships with Lagerfeld and Saint… Continue reading Andre Talley-1948-2022
Same Story, Different Day
Anna Wintour hit the headlines of the New York Times yet once again for the wrong reasons. The proclaimed most powerful woman in the fashion world has been under heavy criticism for Vogue’s lack of diversity. Black voices sidelined at the publication were the norm. Fashion magazines were or less country clubs for the elite. Slim white women from well to do families had the best positions. A place were rich wives “worked” telling other rich wives what to wear for the season. I attended a public state school, a person of color. I knew Vogue as a place closed to my type.
Fabulous Denial Syndrome
Being Fabulous! Aspirational living! This is the lifestyle Vogue and other Conde Nast publications put in our faces. That $1500 bag matched with a $900 linen top. Advice; Pay the rent before heading to Bloomingdales. Once again the magazines find themselves in the headlines, but for the wrong reason,,AGAIN! Six years ago Conde Nast debased… Continue reading Fabulous Denial Syndrome