Email Author Lynn Yaeger

Awards

• 2008 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published August 21, 2007

  "Off the Road"

• 2008 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published July 24, 2007

  "Purse Snatching"

• 2008 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published July 3, 2007

  "Water Torture"

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2008 Stories by Lynn Yaeger

• The Year's Fashion Lowlights

  published December 24, 2008

  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 >>

• Sarah Jessica Parker Gives Me a Guided Tour of the Met. Sort Of.

  published December 17, 2008

  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 >>

• Good-Enough Gifts For These Recessionary Times

  published December 10, 2008

  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 >>

• Holiday Storefronts: A Window Shopper's Guide

  published December 3, 2008

  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 >>

• Isn't Obama a Doll?

  published November 26, 2008

  I saw Rosa Parks in her underwear. I was looking for Michelle, Sasha, and Malia dolls on the Internet and found myself visiting More >>

• H&M and Comme des Garçons Get Married

  published November 19, 2008

  Thursday, November 13, 7:05 a.m.: The long-anticipated, unprecedented marriage between the lowbrow H&M and the upscale avant-garde Comme... More >>

• David Fenton's Revolutionary Photos of Tom Hayden and Bill Ayers, With Caesar Dressing on the Side

  published November 12, 2008

  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 >>

• Gilt-Free Shopping for the Coming Depression

  published November 5, 2008

  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 >>

• Soup and Homicidal Nuts: Recalling a Cheaper, Scarier Village

  published October 15, 2008

  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 >>

• Even at the Ecofest, Shopping Is a Natural Reaction

  published October 8, 2008

  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 of a Sick Economy

  published October 1, 2008

  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 >>

• Temporary Targets and a Casual Colette Colonize New York

  published September 23, 2008

  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 >>

• A Tour of Fashion Week

  published September 17, 2008

  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 >>

• A Stroll Through Fashion Week Shindigs

  published September 10, 2008

  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 >>

• Prepping for Fashion Week 2008

  published September 3, 2008

  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 >>

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  COVER STORY

  Andres Serrano's 'Shit' Show

  published August 27, 2008

  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 >>

• Going Waterboarding at Coney Island

  published August 19, 2008

  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 >>

• Having a Riot at Tompkins Square

  published August 5, 2008

  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 >>

• Hair in Central Park

  published July 29, 2008

  ''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 >>

• Skirting the Issues with Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain

  published July 23, 2008

  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 >>

• Olafur Eliasson's Waterfalls and Statues of Limitations

  published July 16, 2008

  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 >>

• Orchard Street: How the Other Half Lives

  published July 9, 2008

  '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 >>

• Lynn Yaeger Spends the Weekend in Paris

  published July 2, 2008

  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 >>

• Deconstructing The New Ikea in Red Hük

  published June 24, 2008

  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 >>

• Good Taste Invades Times Square. I Hate It.

  published June 10, 2008

  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 >>