The cover for this week’s issue, featuring the 100 Most Powerless New Yorkers.
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If all white men were like the ones on stage in SC GOP debates last night, you wouldn’t speak to one white man in the USA!
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”— Andre Leon Talley’s response to the GOP debate via Twitter.
Jen Doll has written a fantastic cover this week about “How To Be A New Yorker.” A must-read for anyone heading home for the holidays missing this great city of ours, or anyone who’s staying and feels like they need a few reasons to love this town.
Boys To Men: Remember little Jonathan Lipnicki from movies like Jerry Maguire and Stuart Little? Well, guess what? He’s back and he’s no longer a little boy anymore. That’s right! As Tom Cruise screamed “show me the money” in Jerry Maguire, I’m shouting “show me the body”!
(via shaun-alejandro)
“I don’t know what are. I think people make them up, and then they say, ‘Oh yeah, yellow’s really in this season.’ Sometimes there are obvious trends, but there aren’t any at the moment I can think of. Are there? It’s bullshit. Trends are a lie magazines make up so you feel like you have to buy something.”
— Alexa Chung on [fashion] trends.
“I’ve always said that in this industry you have to accept that there is always, always going to be someone ahead of you on the masthead, prettier, better dressed, skinnier, with more money, more respected, invited to more parties and smarter than you. So really you just have to do you and do you the best you can.”
—Mary-Kate Steinmiller
“I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read. More people should read books.”
— Vivienne Westwood
8. Hey, people who work for “good causes” by standing in the middle of the sidewalk with a clipboard and asking us if we believe that homelessness should continue or if we want to fight child abuse. Of course we don’t think homelessness should continue! Of course we hate children being abused! What we don’t like is your passive agressive questioning technique, and the fact that you think that you can trick us into stopping and signing your petition/giving you money with it. Get off the streets, and onto a computer, where you can send us an email reminder to donate that we can simply delete without having to step around you. (Similarly, yes, we do like comedy, and we’re happy to tell someone where we got our hair done, but it’s not you.)
Jen Doll does it again. On a related note, we donate $15 a month to Greenpeace thanks to the St. Marks gauntlet of clipboard holders. We consider it good karma points (and also, we can’t figure out how to cancel it)
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
—Albert Einstein
Photoshop: The reason why girls (and guys) think they’re never good enough.
…Or what I’d like to call lies and manipulation.
Louis Vuitton Is On The Marc: Fashion designer Marc Jacobs has always been a successful commercial fashion designer, whose career has spanned more than a decade at Louis Vuitton. Pretty much like all the collections he has designed, his menswear collection for spring/summer 2012 (also designed by Kim Jones) seems ready to ring in the cash.
Bonjour, Girl: What would happen if Disney’s Beauty & The Beast was made over and camped-up by a team of over-the-top gay men and turned into a drag queen revue? Watch this video to find out!
Libertine Dream: If you take a look at Libertine’s Spring 2012 collection—an eyesore to say the least—you’ll understand why a male model in a bikini brief (look #33) is the only thing worth mentioning from this show.
