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Posted by Barney Kilgore
on Thu 31 Jan 2008 at 03:23 PM
While of course Starkman is correct, he's also naive about the practices of beauty/fashion writers. Most of the big women's books regulary pimp those who supply writers and editors with clothing, services, etc..
Posted by KateC
on Thu 31 Jan 2008 at 03:44 PM
Never mind the Triyoga mentions. . .Good Lord, that is some of the worst writing I've seen since Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper were duking it out in the fan mags.
"The Albert Hall is awash with Up-Dos. Here’s Lady Helen Taylor looking distinctly slim and soigne in grey Armani, a teensy Alice band, her hair swept fetchingly onto the top of her head; and here’s the editor of InStyle, the tiny but perfectly formed Trish Halpin, worrying about whether her own Up-Do looks a little, well ‘Bet Lynch’; it doesn’t. Both look terrifically chic. And who should be next up on stage at Fashion Rocks but our very own Lily Allen, for Chanel, with a neat fringe and a French chignon?"
If that isn't channeling those two wicked women, I don't know what is--right down to the buzz words of the day, "soigné", "teensy", "up-do" "fetchingly", "chignon". . .
Gawd, is there no shame anymore?
Posted by monicalee
on Thu 31 Jan 2008 at 08:00 PM