I remember exactly where I was when I applied to Jezebel. It was January 15, 2008, and I was living unhappily in San Francisco, in a failing relationship, in a failing economy, working a job at which I was failing. Late one desperate night, I wrote an email to tips@jezebel.com — and you can still reach us there, tips…

Kate Moss's licensed collection of cell phone and tablet accessories may be one of the most random celebrity branding ventures we've ever heard of, but it is also inoffensively nice-looking. The brand is an anchor, like that tattoo Moss has on her wrist. [DM]

Paper's Mickey Boardman has a few choice words about the celebrities he's worked with for covers over the years. Apparently, Prince, Lindsay Lohan, and Mariah Carey were all professional and easy-going. Marisa Tomei and Ben Stiller, on the other hand, were not. And as for Nicki Minaj, who appeared on the Spring,…

Skinnydipping is one of life's great free pleasures.

That time Karlie Kloss and the members of Daft Punk were spotted on the streets of Manhattan wasn't for a Saint Laurent campaign — it was a Vogue shoot, and the results are in the magazine's new issue. It's one of those annoying "clothing for every age" editorials where they style a 20-year-old model in a long dress…

This ad for Armani baby diapers is going around the Internet. But is it a real example of the ridiculousness that can ensue when a fashion designer licenses his name to make a quick buck? Or an artful prank on the credulous online media?

Michael Kors is suing Costco for including images of Michael Kors handbags and logos in an ad touting the discount retailer's "designer handbags starting at $99.99 delivered" — but, allegedly, not actually offering any Michael Kors handbags for sale. (The company checked Costco's Web site and 19 Costco stores for the…

American Vogue sent Karlie Kloss to an Austrian health farm to shoot an editorial. The resulting photos — and their captions — really deserve to be savored. So does the ridiculousness of seeing Kloss, a woman who is thin for a living, pretending to lose weight by submitting to the treatments of a place called the…

Or just the most vulgar and out-of-touch? That's the question on my mind after reading the profile in this month's Harper's Bazaar, in which the actress whines about how her (Jewish!) business manager is such a buzzkill about her Birkin habit and explains that the success of Modern Family has finally allowed her to…

This billboard for the eleventyeth season of Project Runway, featuring a gaggle of nude models prostrating themselves before Tim Gunn and the Marie-Antoinettish Heidi Klum, was deemed too nekkid for public display in Los Angeles. But not New York. (Don't ever change, New York.) [Racked LA]

How do impoverished Haitians end up wearing American T-shirts with crude slogans? It's a complicated story of capitalism, consumption, and "charity."

Beyoncé appears on the cover of the new issue of Flaunt wearing nothing but body glitter. A lot of body glitter. Inside the magazine, the singer comes out in favor of gluten ("I'm okay with gluten") and the city of Paris ("Paris is a beautiful, sexy city.") In case you were dying to know. [Flaunt]

The above image is a screencap of a random piece of over-the-top Anna Wintour gossip we spotted floating around Facebook. So let's talk one of the chicest perks of the media economy: the editor-in-chief's clothing allowance.

Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Oscar de la Renta welcomed such fashion leaders as Anna Wintour to Little Rock, Arkansas, last night, for the gala opening of an exhibition of de la Renta's work at the Clinton presidential center.

There seems to have been a bit of a miscommunication about the new Lone Ranger fashion collaboration, which supposedly matched the talents of a "prestigious Native American craftsman" named Gabriel GoodBuffalo with the brand Will Leather Goods, all under the aegis of the Disney corporation. You see, GoodBuffalo is …

The Guardian has published an excerpt from former Australian Vogue editor Kirstie Clements' new memoir, The Vogue Factor. Clements focuses on fashion and body image in the chapter, and while many outlets will no doubt focus on the "shocking" details she shares (fashion models who are regularly fed by I.V. drip…

We've written a lot over the years about the racial diversity of the American fashion industry — and particularly the diversity of the models cast to walk in New York fashion week — but less about the biggest brands headquartered in fashion's other three global centers: Paris, London, and Milan. With couture week…

Weddings are such complicated business. Entitled people want cash, not gifts! Or, as this terrible Facebook message from a bride/horrible mean person demonstrates, sometimes people (perplexingly) do not want cash. Or at least, they do not want a paltry amount of cash. Like $100. $100 is not enough for some people.