Topic: Cathy Horyn

We All Know Fashion Bloggers Have No Integrity, Right?

We All Know Fashion Bloggers Have No Integrity, Right?

During fashion month, when every fashion site with a photo department publishes slideshow after slideshow of “street style,” in and around the tents, you pretty quickly note the recurring characters. There’s model-turned-blogger Hanneli Mustaparta, there’s accessory-obsessed Man Repeller, there’s Susie Bubble in artfully clashing everything and, of course, Bryan Boy. These and other superstar style are always outfitted in a morass of prints, wearing hot-off-the-runway statement shoes and toting the season’s most prominent It Bag. They always sit front row. More »

Ready-to-Click: Franca Sozzani Blogs About Her Disdain For Fashion Bloggers

Ready-to-Click: Franca Sozzani Blogs About Her Disdain For Fashion Bloggers

Before you point out the irony of that, she’s talking about personal style bloggers. I think. -Refinery 29

Now Cathy Horyn is weighing in on the furor over Michelle Obama’s McQueen. -New York Times

Rose McGowan wore vivid green Juan Carlos Obando on the red carpet. -Elle.com

While Julianna Margulies wore an Yves Saint Laurent column. -Racked

Annie Lennox’s model daughter breaks out, Hilary Rhoda mixes things up, flats return and More »

Cathy Horyn Is Sick of Your BS, Lady Gaga

Cathy Horyn Is Sick of Your BS, Lady Gaga

Cathy Horyn filed a Spring 2011-thus-far report late yesterday, praising a return to the glamorously sensual (Tom Ford, Donna Karan) and natural (Rodarte) in a piece entitled, “Down from the Stratosphere, Gaga Free.” Horyn sees this departure from “dead whites and galactic silver” as decidedly anti-Gaga, whose apparent stranglehold on the fashion industry for the past few seasons has sent designers running desperate for a simpler, earthier pallete of “mauve, rose, pink, tan, purple and terra cotta.” And Horyn would be absolutely right if she wasn’t kind of wrong. More »

Why We Think Tavi Is Here To Stay

Why We Think Tavi Is Here To Stay

The New Yorker recently ran a piece questioning whether or not 14 year old fashion blogger Tavi will remain relevant when she’s no longer 14. Tavi herself sounded completely sane and reasonable about the possibility that she might not always be sitting with Karl Lagerfeld at Fashion shows. She remarked:

“I guess that’s sort of a worry of mine, that I won’t be relevant anymore, and then I just won’t be able to do things like go to Fashion Week . . . In which case, I’ll just watch the livestreams. The main thing is the clothes.

Other people, like Anne Slowey, sound really, really bitchy. According to the NY Post: More »