You speak the truth, it's the people above with the screwed-up sense of "what's beautiful" who eff it up. Last year I art-directed a magazine cover that featured a name model; the powers that be kept saying, "slim her down, slim her down," and would send these ridiculous drawings with her waist nipped in and her hips…

Excellent insight, thanks!

This does indeed make sense, and I do think my initial assumption was that their “we’ll get it out, etc” statements were specifically about the treats we already know about and believe to be harmful, vs a blanket “everything made in China” attitude. That said, I have to think both companies maintain pretty…

Not snark, but a serious question (OK, maybe with a bit of snark): I don’t get why Petco needs until the end of the year to clear their shelves of the treats in question, while Petsmart said they’ll have them out by early 2015. Why does it take so long to clear your shelves of something that could harm pets? I’m…

Good gosh, I am so torn right now. My career goals imply I should stay in NY. As someone who grew up in Detroit, I have a tremendous affinity for the Motor City and would love to contribute to its comeback. And my chances of buying real estate (vs being a longtime renter, like countless NYers) in NYC without a…

The hands, awesome. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been made fun of for using the hands. Aaron, how could you not include a hands explainer?!?

Sofia Coppola something of a surprise — it’s Michael Kors, not her BFF Marc Jacobs (though it looks a little like it could be, doesn’t it) …

As someone who grew up in Roseville and East Detroit (now Eastpointe, I remember when that ridiculousness happened), I have to respectfully disagree about Ann Arbor. I just don’t know anyone who thought Ann Arbor, while lovely, was any part of Detroit. That was that place mainly known for U of M, and we rarely…

He’s insanely hot and I love this cover, but I can’t get past his too-manicured brows. Remember that guy on the FX series Nip/Tuck whose brows were likewise way too groomed? That’s all I can think of when I look at this photo.

We’ve hit upon the ideal Fashion Rorschach Test. I see Angelina Jolie in Maleficent …

I didn’t even have to get as far as "That Guy from that TV show who tricks unsuspecting women into thinking he's Prince Harry” to be so utterly happy I didn’t waste my time watching this last night. Can we agree there are too many sketchy award shows, or at least too many award shows with unnecessary red carpets?…

Yes, yes, yes and yes. Thank you, and thanks to the writer of this post. For all those who just want to not see the difference, next time someone talks shit or just gets something blatantly wrong about your hometown, let's see you not parse out the particulars and just shrug and say whatever ...

The Post is a piece of trash, period. No one respects it. This is but another in a loooooong line of examples. Read the horoscope, the Yankees score and Andrea Peyser's latest rant on Alec Baldwin, and then throw it away ...

At the newsstands in the Salt Lake airport, mag covers are routinely covered up; this Katy Perry Rolling Stone cover, for example, even though she's as covered as though in a bathing suit. But it's lingerie, so clutch your pearls, Utah!

If La Perla really cared about addressing the issue, they’d offer their lingerie in a more varied (read: larger) range of sizes. Their largest bra cups are 32E or 34B, while their XL bottoms are meant to fit women 12-14, which among many American (though few American designer) brands is more in the M to L range.…

When I first moved to New York I was very attracted to a guy who just looked at me as a friend, and I know this was because he wasn’t attracted to me. We got along great: We laughed, we had common interests, I knew he thought I was smart and funny. But I was the girl he talked to about other girls, and there were a…

I don’t know that I would agree with that as a generality. I think, as a whole, women are more accepting of and/or attracted to a guy society wouldn’t define as conventionally handsome than men are of women who aren’t thin or beautiful by today’s conventional standards. I understand that what I’m doing is producing a…

Def Tim Roth; he plays Rainier in the film. They must have him standing on apple boxes in every scene with her …

To be fair, the headline here is a little deceiving. They didn't say the Cumberbatch was the only guy to do white tie correctly; they just ended their schtick (if one could apply such a word to anything Anna does) with a photo of one guy who, unsurprisingly, did it right. Likely they had no issue with David Lauren,…

Would be interesting to see if someone is able to track how many subscriptions were cancelled in the wake of the Kimye cover. Because you have to take the 250K sold on newsstand but then subtract subscription cancellations as well to realize the net figure (and, admittedly, then add in any new subscriptions; would…