Bloggers are so attractive to the big design houses because they are so wide-eyed and obsessed, but they don’t have the critical faculties to know what’s good and what’s not. As soon as they’ve been invited to the shows, they can no longer criticize because then they won’t be invited back.
I get that “the magazine industry is falling apart” is not something magazine editors can say when asked why bloggers are taking the good seats at fashion shows. But frantic scrambling for an explanation hit a new level of BS when Robert Johnson of GQ basically suggested that magazine editors don’t give the same designer BJs that some bloggers do. As if advertising– though diminishing– has no effect on what magazines write about the companies advertising…
That said, no more Tavi, please. She’s cute-ish, but so irrelevant.
Lead paint has been banned for residential use in the US for years because, well, lead is some nasty crap. It has a tendency to stunt growth in kids, cause nervous system damage and generally just result in some shady side effects. Oh, and if you own H&M accessories, you may be clutching a little bundle of fairly intense lead right now!
The mega-purveyor of fast, fall apart fashion just settled a lawsuit brought down on them by the Center for Environmental Health over the fact that various accessories contained 13 to 115 times the legal limit of lead. Hopefully, the settlement will discourage further chemical nastiness in H&M products. In the meantime though, I’m burning that bag my crazy aunt gave me instead of leaving it shoved into a corner of my room.
Lindsay Lohan showed us that wearing acid wash jeans and too-small skirts is qualification enough to be a fashion designer, so why shouldn’t Jersey Shore’s most terrifyingly trashy cast member do it, too? She of the tramp stamp, skunk hair and general irrefutable tackiness is now designing what The Cut rather accurately deems “custom skank tops.” So pack your hair gel, spray tan and leopard thongs, bitches, we’re going to the shore.
Lillian and I. Somehow, she is 75 years older and still manages to look cooler.
I was named after a woman named Lillian who is, I think, my older [half] brother’s great aunt. We’re not technically related and I don’t see her terribly often, due in part to the facts that I no longer live in Chicago and she no longer leaves her bed. But I did have the opportunity to visit her last week while I was in town. Her awesome bed jacket and the killer vintage Gucci shades convinced me that, if I’m half as badass as she is at 96, everything will be fine.
Lily Q lives and obsesses about clothes in New York's West Village, where a myriad of tempting stores and pretty dresses threaten to leave her living in a box much like a hobo. When not crying silently about how little time and how many shoes there are, Lily is writing about it.
You can also check her out on TheFrisky.com, The Local blog (Brooklyn version) at The New York Times and her own blog, Lily Q Talks Clothes. She could easily have written this bio in the first person but prefers that special variety of douchiness that comes with writing in the third person.
Lead paint has been banned for residential use in the US for years because, well, lead is some nasty crap. It has a tendency to stunt growth in kids, cause nervous system damage and generally just result in 
