From the Front: Yaeger on Why 'Some Like It Haute'
This week our fashion expert, Lynn Yaeger, visits Nan Kempner's exhibit at the Costume Institute. A display of haute couture past, the late socialite's wardrobe can't help highlight the industry's...
View ArticleFrom the Front: Yaeger on a Season "Under the Influence of the Dogs of War"
(Dali's in the house at Ben Cho) This week our fashion expert, Lynn Yaeger, weaves through the threads of New York Fashion Week and finds "the runways this season are heavily under the influence of the...
View ArticleBuy What You Want! Yaeger on 'The Secret'
(From here: Illustration by Ryan Sanchez) This week our fashion expert, Lynn Yaeger, takes on The Secret, Rhonda Byrne's popular book on how to use the Law of Attraction to achieve personal success. In...
View ArticleIsabella Blow, 1958–2007
(She herself, in an image from here) If it can be argued that there are, sartorially speaking, only two types of women in the world, those who wish to blend in and those who dress to astonish, Isabella...
View ArticleFrom the Front: Yaeger is a Sucker for Tracy Turnblad
In case you couldn't guess this on your own, Lynn Yaeger is the funnest person to hang out with at the Voice. Since you don't work here, you just get to read her column, which is like a miniature...
View ArticleYaeger on Fashion's Rare Fatties
This week, Lynn Yaeger comments on a new study that says your fat friends make you fat: The experts say they think the reason behind all this is that you get used to looking at people who are hefty...
View ArticleLynn Yaeger Braves the Hamptons
The Hamptons make us nervous. Anything that's even more exaggerated in reality than its own stereotype is a little disconcerting, but usually also somewhat entertaining. Intrepid fashion...
View ArticleYaeger to Kerouac: 'Hey, You Old Dharma Bum!'
Today, Lynn Yaeger uses her column to write an open letter of sorts to Jack Kerouac, just to let him know how his image has made its way into today's high fashion. Hogan, the leather brand, has...
View ArticlePet Fashion Week, Death to America
Today, our head hurts and we're feeling hateful. Maybe it has something to do with spending two hours on the A train last night, only to end crammed onto a shuttle bus full of homicidal straphangers?...
View ArticleLynn Yaeger and a Bunch of Pretty Young Boys
This week, Lynn Yaeger hung out behind the scenes of fashion week to bring us a little slice of life among male models. We have a few friends who would be quite jealous of this proximity to waifish...
View ArticleFashion Week is Hell
Lynn Yaeger did fashion week so the rest of us don't have to. And thankfully, she describes her week in a diary full of hilariously unglamorous moments: being in hot rooms, throbbing crowds, boring...
View ArticleYaeger to Anthropologie: Get Real
In this week's Voice, an H&M-clad Lynn Yaeger takes on the philosophical/moral question of copying in fashion. Anthropologie, a brand that specializes in Marni- and Marc Jacobs-esque designs, is...
View ArticleYaeger Braves the F Train and the Plus-Size Market
Lynn Yaeger is at it again this week, writing about fashion for the people. She wonders what level of style is really available to bigger girls -- even average-size women? To find out, Yaeger leaves...
View ArticleYaeger on the End of Bleecker Street
With excruciatingly conflicting feelings of nostalgia and consumerism, Lynn Yaeger, with Robert Sietsema as her guide, takes on Bleecker Street in its current state this week. Where there was once a...
View ArticleLynn Yaeger Goes to a Mall! And Target!
Lynn Yaeger, a self-proclaimed shopping bulimic (chronic buyer and returner), discovers the Path train this week ("like the subway, but cheaper! Different!") to visit Kohls and try on Vera Wang's...
View ArticleRIP, CBGB. Welcome, John Varvatos...
You heard it here first. John Varvatos made it official today that he is bringing his $3,495 leather jackets to the defunct CBGB spot on the Bowery, but Yaeger was onto the news already. Varvatos may...
View ArticleLynn Yaeger Hearts the Olsens Too!
It's nice to know that we are not the only freaks thinking about/worshiping the Olsen twins this week. Lynn Yaeger marvels at their modern glamour in her column: Actually, when it comes to glamour,...
View ArticleFashion Week Recap: Toilet Paper Huge at Sean John
Photo courtesy MAO If you've ever attended the shows at Fashion Week, you know that reading Lynn Yaeger's diary about that experience is a lot more fun that partaking in it first-hand. This time...
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