Email Author Lynn Yaeger
It's the very last week of 2008, the worst 12 months in living memory for the fashion business, an annus horribilis if ever there was one. All... More >>
Things apparently did not work out with Mr. Big. Carrie Bradshaw, broke and alone, is filling her time by narrating "Costume: The Art of... More >>
You might think I'm starting off this gift guide with Jack's 99 Cent Store because the economy is sinking, the Dow is in the toilet, we're all... More >>
Did you know that a billion or so years ago, snow clumped together in a most disgusting manner, and you couldn't tell the boy flakes from the... More >>
I saw Rosa Parks in her underwear. I was looking for Michelle, Sasha, and Malia dolls on the Internet and found myself visiting More >>
Thursday, November 13, 7:05 a.m.: The long-anticipated, unprecedented marriage between the lowbrow H&M and the upscale avant-garde Comme... More >>
I spent last weekend palling around with Bill Ayers. OK, it was actually a photograph of Ayers leading a 1969 Days of Rage march in Chicago,... More >>
How come it's so crowded at the Museum of the City of New York's Paris/New York exhibit? It's a Tuesday, and I'm here because it's my... More >>
The first apartment I ever had, the first lease I ever signed—OK, so my dad had to pay the first and last months' rent and the broker's... More >>
Who do you have to fuck to get a cup of fair-trade organic coffee around here? Nobody, it turns out. At the 20th annual Ecofest in Damrosch... More >>
Six signs that the economy is tanking, sinking, resembling, in Chuck Schumer's words, Charybdis, which, for all you non-Homeric scholars, is a... More >>
Like a chimera, like a dybbuk, like a spirit that slips into the house and switches your baby for a changeling, pop-up shops slithered into... More >>
Why am I bounding into a vast white loft in far West Chelsea on the hottest day of September? How come I'm boiling with resentment that a lot... More >>
Many years ago, before the cutest among you were born, I coveted a dress at Bergdorf Goodman by Isabel Toledo. As I recall, it cost $88, but at... More >>
I know what you want. I read those two-ton fall fashion magazines, so I am well aware that at this very second, you are scrambling about... More >>
When the artist Andres Serrano had doubts about his latest project, he asked God for direction. "Just before I started to make these pictures,... More >>
Squishy with delight that Coney Island in all its ratty splendor has survived another year, I scramble onto the N train for the trip from 14th... More >>
In 1986, when the photographer Q. Sakamaki moved to the East Village from Japan, his street could get very noisy—guys acting as lookouts... More >>
''You're writing about the costumes in Hair?" a friend with a long memory snorts. "Aren't they all naked?" I have just returned... More >>
Susan Sarandon is mean. She is standing on the red carpet at a party celebrating Longchamp's 60th anniversary, clutching a little dog, when I... More >>
I am leaving Saks Fifth Avenue in a huff on a recent blazing Saturday—because even though everything is 70 percent off, the Sgt.... More >>
'My name is Jess, and I'm going to be your educator today!' says Jess, cheerful as a day-camp counselor despite the blistering heat on the... More >>
Who'd be crazy enough to plan a weekend in France when airfares are through the roof and a croque-monsieur in a sleazy dump costs $50? OK, me.... More >>
How much do we love a boat ride? Isn't the best part of going to Fire Island taking the ferry? And today, instead of bingo in the Grove and tea... More >>
Austerity, rampaging beige, and a glut of good taste have invaded Times Square, and I hate it. The new Muji store, that temple of high-concept... More >>
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