Suzy Menkes to be honoured at 2013 British Fashion Awards
Julien Hekimian Suzy Menkes, OBE will receive the British Fashion Council’s (BFC) Special Recognition Award this year, for her 25-year-long career at the International Herald–Tribune. Menkes has been style editor for the newspaper, now rebranded as the International New York Times, since 1988, and is hugely respected by her peers and the fashion industry. […]
British media get excited over Cheryl Cole’s 28th birthday party
Never believe ‘sources close to’ in media, those well meaning folk who use their own constructs to read a situation—or those who simply invent gossip to fuel their importance. We’re not exactly falling for the news that there is an Ashley and Cheryl Cole reconciliation, even if the footballer was seen attending his ex-wife’s 28th […]
Lady Gaga guest-edits Metro newspaper in London
Lady Gaga, 2010’s (and 2011’s) mistress of publicity and fame, has stepped in to the editor-in-chief’s chair at Metro UK, as guest editor for a day. The singer wore a choker, bra top and black pants as she took the editor’s chair. She then led an editorial meeting where she discussed LGBT and equality […]
Blogs are good for fashion, as long as we can find them
Above Journalist Simone Werle’s Style Diaries: World Fashion from Berlin to Tokyo uncovers the fashion blogosphere and the personalities behind some of the influential blogs. (Click for Amazon.com, Amazon UK and Amazon Deutschland.) The first time I encountered a fashion blog, I thought it was pretty crap. All its ideals aside, blogging, initially, seemed to […]
Getting a good laugh over the Jennifer Hawkins nude cover non-story
[Cross-posted] This whole Jennifer Hawkins nude cover story has been another media-concocted non-story. But I will give it some kudos: it influenced Australian celebrity dialogue for a week, and it shows that Murdochs still have some sway over public opinion. We knew about it at Lucire, and thought: OK, a radio presenter doesn’t like […]
A media opportunity as Sarah Palin, aided by Oprah, goes to the mainstream
American readers will get to see Oprah Winfrey interview Sarah Palin today, in what is widely tipped to be a casual, feel-good special to promote the former governor’s book, Going Rogue. Some media have tipped this as the launch of ‘Sarah Palin 2·0’, one who is now free from the Republican Party machine and […]
Our good friend Thomaz has been in Ecuador to photograph fashion week there, and we have some shots from the event last month. Meanwhile, we’d like to give Sharyn Steel’s Struggling to Fly a bit of a plug. Sharyn started off as the only woman journalist at a newspaper in 1969, and rose through […]
1982 will be different as Ashes to Ashes’ next series begins
We’ve been patiently waiting for news of Ashes to Ashes’ second series for quite some time. This time last year, we had already talked about the series, the ’80s and the decade’s influence on fashion. Last week was the first time we had heard much about the next Ashes to Ashes, aside from a […]
Britney Spears turns her image around, as predicted
Above: Britney Spears in a Hidden Fantasy print advertisement for Elizabeth Arden. Who would have guessed, when we published our piece, ‘Rescuing the Britney Spears Image’ in March last year, that the singer’s negative image could be overturned so substantially by January 2009? Since March 2008, Spears has made a proper comeback—despite continuing bad […]
Easy targets from the anti-Rhonda Grant release
I ?nally came across the full text of the press release attacking Massey University over its story on its alum Rhonda Grant, Miss Universe New Zealand’s second runner-up. You can read the statement from the Association of University Staff’s president, Assoc Prof Maureen Montgomery, via Scoop. I think she was pretty persistent, sending it […]
