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• April 16, 2008
  J.K. Rowling Brings a Grandfatherly Harry Potter Fan To Tears
  By Sharon Steel
  
  Before the Breakdown: Steven Jan Vander Ark at Sectus
  
  Serious drama is afoot in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter! We wrote about what the end of the series meant for some local HP disciples last summer, but there's a new, extremely serious rift in superfan land happening right now. It's between author J.
  
  
  

  

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• April 02, 2008
  This Thing is A Lot Like That Thing: Strike a Pose!
  By Sharon Steel
  Tee hee! We're all a-titter over this week's Observer cover, although we can imagine Anna Wintour has an enormous bee buzzing in her bonnet right about now. Oh my!
  
  Here is this April's cover of Vogue, featuring LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen. It was shot by Annie Leibovitz: click for what might have been her "inspiration.
  
  

  

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• March 17, 2008
  A Look at The Look Book
  By Sharon Steel
  
  Yes, yes, I am obsessed with Amy Larocca's weekly New York magazine fashion popsicle, in which she interviews one or more crazily dressed urbanite and explains why they are loathsome, amazing, weird, terrible, or the coolest just by asking them, like, four questions. Deborah Solomon, take note! Sometimes the answers are all about What You're Wearing.
  

  

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• March 12, 2008
  Beauty and Brains?
  By Sharon Steel
  
  
  Ok, so we know Client-9's chosen lady-of-the-night in Room 871 was 5'5". And brunette.
  
  But! Did she, like so many of these Emperor's Clubbers, also have an MA to her credit? Or an MFA? Maybe even just an senior honor's thesis? Does that count? Do any of these 'hos carry a PhD? Spitzer liked them to be discreet, and, blech, he liked it "dangerous.
  
  
  
  

  

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• March 06, 2008
  More Notes on the Project Runway Finale
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  Proj Run! Ian beat me to the official rundown, read on if you want to hear more post-finale ramblings.
  
  Christian took it all, which was totally expected even having known in advance that his collection would be the least wearable and even more "costume" (read: couture) than Chris's stuff ever was.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

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• March 05, 2008
  Fashion Quiz: Who is the fiercest of them all?
  By Sharon Steel
  
  
  A. Avril Lavigne, our favorite little married pop-punk foul-mouthed songstress, who just scored an exclusive design deal with Kohl's? Will it be Hot Topic meets Chanel? Or will it just be pink and black and Kelly Osbourne?
  
  
  
  B. Karl Lagerfeld, who delivered the following zingers (among many more) in a nine-page Q&A cover story for Prestige Hong Kong:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

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• March 03, 2008
  The Plus Side of Being a Model?
  By Sharon Steel
  
  
  I'm delighted that the Telegraph decided to feature Crystal Renn, an extraordinarily successful plus-size model, in a feature today. But here's what I don't get. This is how writer Judy Rumbold opens her piece:
  
  To be honest, I expected Crystal Renn to be bigger. All right then, fatter.
  
  
  
  

  

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• February 28, 2008
  When A Size Zero Simply Isn't Good Enough
  By Sharon Steel
  
  Model Ali Michael, backstage at Anna Sui, via Style.com
  
  Christina Binkley's style piece in today's Wall Street Journal arrived just in time to close National Eating Disorders Awareness Week -- and also to remind me of the fact that as much as I love fashion, shit is fucked up.
  
  Ali Michael is 17-years-old.
  
  
  
  
  

  

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• February 22, 2008
  Every Princess Begins Her Journey With a Dream!
  By Sharon Steel
  
  
  Oh, Oscars! Movies, pretty dresses, a masturbatory ceremony, long commercial breaks, annoying jokes, weird panning shots into the audience of men wearing bronzer and ladies squeezed into Zac Posen gowns. Hurrah!
  
  One thing about the Oscars, though: the swag. Even if you're a pitiful loser, everyone in attendance still walks away with a shit ton of free nonsense.
  
  
  
  

  

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• February 15, 2008
  How To Go From Designer Douchebag to Sartorial Deity In Just One Step
  By Sharon Steel
  
  
  
  
  ©CARINA MASTROCOLA
  
  On Project Runway, Michael Kors is an asshole. He is the Jewish, Long Island-y version of what Christian will be in about 40 years. However, he is a Top American Designer (thx, Heidi!) and therefore an expert on fashionologie. And, we must admit, usually, for the most part, he's got decent taste, and he gives witty soundbites for us to mock.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

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