no more vogue

Or W for me. Or GQ, or Wired, or Vanity Fair. No more Conde Nast.

This evening, I sent Charles Townsend of Conde Nast an email regarding fashion photographers alleged transgressions, which include, but are not limited to molesting and taking advantage of young, impressionable models.

You can read the contents of the email below, but please note until Conde Nast quits enabling people who clearly lack integrity, I will not be reading, quoting, [...]

modusoperandi: labels, labels, labels

I will never buy this bracelet for $78.

Why? Because a) it’s enamel, b) there’s nothing remotely aesthetically pleasing about it, and c) the only relevance it has to the fashion world is that is has Marc Jacobs‘ name plastered all over it.

Please, save your money, young things, and after you pass on a couple of tired, label-whorish pieces, you’ll be able to afford some REAL [...]

here's a tip . . .

Chances are, RogueRanters, if Lindsay Lohan’s done it, it’s probably on the verge of being out of style.

I know, I know. That’s stating the obvious. It’s just that I wish I had a dollar for every hack-friend of mine who’s come out with a leggings line these days. Let’s just say I’d mozy on over to the bar and buy everyone a round with the kind of money I’d [...]

oh gawd! please, noooooo!

Walking down Lexington Avenue, just Lex for short, a poorly dressed woman behind me stated to her poorly dressed man _____ (insert friend or lover here): “Well, it looks like jumpers are in again,” after she glanced and gestured inside the windows of Sephora.

Sephora is a make-up place, and try as I might, I could not find any evidence within the window display to suggest that jumpers, rompers, or any manner of onesies [...]

the hawk is circling

I got a mohawk. It is not for the faint of heart. I am in love with it. Everyone else loves it. It means I get to wear cute things in my hair. It means no more lame ponytails. No more straightening, curling, blah, blah, blah, because these days, I don’t have the energy for that. My nose is extraordinary, in my opinion. Everyone’s favorite mole makes an appearance, too.

models do frolick

According to photographer Greg Kadel.

He’s the man who brought you this:

and this:

for an Australian Vogue shoot, not only made nipple piercings on models a hot commodity, but also made this video montage of the shoot. Featuring two of my (and many others) favorites, models Catherine McNeil and Abbey Lee Kershaw, the light, airy, and sensual video kind [...]