It’s hard to imagine Anna Wintour (perennial bob, sunglasses, and tweed skirt suit intact) poring over pornographic centerfolds, but before she was the editor-in-chief at Vogue, she spent several years as fashion editor at the adult magazine Viva, sister of Penthouse and geared towards a demographic of horny women. Viva’s pages were predominantly filled with graphic nudity and [...]

So now that I have returned to Paris, after four months of being back in the United States, I am appreciating all that the French have to offer. Except for one thing — their obsession with critiquing you on your appearance. It’s a severely gauche cultural trait that they think is totally normal and acceptable.
Yes, [...]

I saw the new Basquiat show at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, and it made me think about celebrity. A Brooklyn-born boy of Puerto Rican and Haitian descent, Jean-Michel Basquiat became a star in the art world because he was a talented graffiti artist who caught the attention of some gallery owners.
His work [...]

The Vogue Japan editor, Anna Della Russo, is so addicted to capitalism that her closet is as big as an apartment — no, wait, her closet is an actual one-bedroom apartment. And all its contents change every season, so it’s not exactly renewable.
This Russo woman thinks of herself as such a pimp of the fashion world [...]

I just moved to Manhattan, but the city has already sufficiently bruised and beaten me. Well, I am just complaining because I still don’t have a job. Now people are telling me that I should be a waiter or a nanny. That’s exactly what I did in Paris because I was foreign and couldn’t get [...]

The newest Woody Allen film, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, is a romp in the miseries of lovemaking. There is the older woman who has been dumped by her end-of-life-crisis husband (Anthony Hopkins) for a faster, leggier (prostitute) model. What’s a 70-year-old to do but go to a crackpot fortune teller for tea [...]

A bunch of Yale guys were pledging a fraternity this week. In the tradition of misogynistic patriarchal institutions, the fraternity wanted its pledges to walk around campus chanting the following words related to rape: “no means yes,” “yes means anal,” and “I fuck dead women.” There was also a whole lot of pro-America hoopla that [...]

As a recent resident of Manhattan, I am already shocked and irritated by the amount of creepers there are in this city. An ex-boyfriend of mine who lives in the city recently harassed me so much that I finally agreed to go to coffee with him to shoot the breeze — unfortunately, his new wife [...]

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is beyond satisfying as far as big Hollywood movies go. Michael Douglas continues to be the original pimp who makes a cigar into a lot more than just a cigar. And Carey Mulligan is great as Gordon Gekko’s estranged daughter fighting for liberal politics through a little lefty news blog.
I highly [...]

A very gauche dean at St. John’s University doubled as a pimp to her scholarship students. That is to say, Cecilia Chang had a unique way of capitalizing on her most talented and money-hungry students — Chang treated them as slaves and even forced some of her female students to act as evening escorts to [...]