Hackers!

The Moment, a fashion blog from the New York Times, which has over 510,000 followers on Twitter, was attacked by SPAMMERS! GAHH! They broke into their account and posted the following message:

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Two hours later, The Moment regained control of their account and posted the following explanation for the out-of-character Tweet:

Creating Constructs

Fashion magazine's undeniably follow a pattern for their cover. Closeup of a pretty actress/model, hair blowing, face photoshopped to eerie perfection, typically blond (especially for teen magazines) and caucasian (although Vogue has actually had three african american women this year on the cover!). To exemplify this point, here is Vogue's January cover:
Anne Hathaway is beautiful, I want to become a redhead, and have a stylish New Year. This sounds great. Unfortunately though, this formula for a magazine cover has become so uninteresting that almost none of them are eyecatching anymore. The beautiful woment that they choose for the cover appear as unhuman clones of this vision for uniform, ideal beauty. The Moment, New York Times Style Blog, recently posted a picture of the cover of Vogue from January, 1950. In looking at this image, it seems like in the past 59 years, has the magazine industry has become less progressive and less artistic.

Erwin Blumenthal’s photograph on Vogue’s cover in January 1950.

This cover includes Jean Patchett’s beauty mark, mouth, eye, brow and nose. This reduction is artistic, alluring, and unique- something many covers today are missing.

It's Here!

"The spring design issue of T Magazine will put you ahead of the curve — in more ways than one. Our cover star is Greg Lynn, champion of “blob” architecture, whose first house was photographed by Raymond Meier. We also take a tour of an artful Manhattan townhouse that looks as contemporary now as it did the day the owner — who also designed it — first moved in back in 1973. William Shaw profile Richard Woods, whose faux wood facades have the art world floored. Ambra Medda, the founder of Design Miami Basel shows why she’s the fairest of them all, Frank Gehry takes us out on his sailboat, Foggy, and Alice Rawsthorn explains how a quirky, seaweed-like room divider became a runaway design hit. And there’s a lot more where that came from. Dive in!"
-By Alix Browne for New York Times Style Magazine

Fashion Tweets

Garance Dore is on Twitter!

Ugh, she's so cool....
Also if you happen to be on twitter, make sure you are following TheMoment, NYTimesStyle, and Women'sWearDaily. Even in Pougkeepsie you can get play by play updates of global fashion.