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

• What Can You Buy When You're Broke?

  published June 3, 2008

  Pretty sure your summer-vacation budget won't get you much further than the roof? Not worried about the price of gas because you doubt you'll... More >>

• There Goes the Bowery. . . Again

  published May 27, 2008

  I am hopelessly late to the wedding of Chris P. Carrot and Penelo Pea Pod. It is the alleged high point of the First Veggie Pride parade in... More >>

• Questions for Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City Writer and Director

  published May 27, 2008

  1. Who are the four pathetic bimbos in funny outfits inhabiting this movie, and what have you done with our girls? 2. If... More >>

• Super-Duper Comic Relief at the Met's Superheroes Show

  published May 20, 2008

  The only comic book I ever read was Betty and Veronica. I was mordantly fascinated by their unfathomable infatuation with the hapless... More >>

• Sex and the City Spoilers: A Sneak Preview of What Really Happens to Carrie and the Girls

  published May 13, 2008

  By now, you've probably heard the rumors that someone dies in the new Sex and the City movie. So widespread is this buzz that it has... More >>

• The Whitney Biennial: Art Sucks, Let's Go Shopping

  published May 6, 2008

  What do you do if you're a compulsive shopper and sale time is still months away? While I mark the calendar, counting the weeks between now and... More >>

• Trapped in Wedding Hell

  published April 29, 2008

  "Are you a bride? Do we have a bride here?" asks the saleswoman, practically foaming at the mouth. No, we do not have a bride here. What we... More >>

• Very Important Designers You've Never Heard of Slum at Stores You Can't Escape

  published April 22, 2008

  OK, pop quiz—who is Celia Birtwell? Give up? Unless you were alive in the 1960s and lived in London, or are a super-dedicated follower of... More >>

• Hitting the Vuitton Murakami Shop at the Brooklyn Museum

  published April 15, 2008

  "Guess what, Max? Mommy is going to take you to see a great big sculpture!" "Emma, don't bother the nice elevator lady!" "No, Caitlin, we are... More >>

• The New York Flea Market Scene

  published April 8, 2008

  It's a freezing spring morning, but Sue Whitney, the co-author of Junk Beautiful: Room by Room Makeovers with Junkmarket Style, is... More >>

• Calvin Klein's $3,500 Sweater

  published April 1, 2008

  "I have a navy wool that has a little hook and eye and comes right to the hip bone. It's $2,880—No. 24 in the look-book," the no-nonsense... More >>

• Donna Karan Goes Zen, Yaeger Contemplates Shaving Her Head

  published March 25, 2008

  I am standing on the pay line at the Donna Karan sample sale, and I am holding not one but two 1920s coats. One is black velvet, with a collar... More >>

• How To Wear Your Vote

  published March 18, 2008

  How do you wear your politics on your sleeve if you won't be caught dead in a T-shirt and can't risk piercing a vintage velvet coat with a... More >>

• Post-Oscars, the Dress Knock-Off Crowd Gets Busy

  published March 4, 2008

  "I had 99 percent of the fabrics already. I didn't have feathers yesterday, but I got them now." It's the morning after the Oscars, and Allen... More >>

• Traipsing Around Toy Fair 2008

  published February 26, 2008

  The vast flag rippling miles above my head reads "Toy Fair 2008: Inspiring Growth" in bilious green, the color of kelp and algae and sad little... More >>

• Can You Make a Living Selling Schmatas?

  published February 19, 2008

  Once upon a time, many years ago, I attempted to sell vintage clothes at a now-defunct market in the schoolyard on Greenwich Avenue. I remember... More >>

• Stuck on the Runways as Fashion Week Takes Off

  published February 5, 2008

  January 31 7:57 p.m. Fashion Week doesn’t officially start until tomorrow, but I already have a gift bag! I get it at FIT’s... More >>

• ‘What Candidate Are You Wearing?’

  published January 29, 2008

  If other journalists can take the temperature of the electorate in a South Carolina bowling alley or an Arby's in Muskogee, why can't I poll my... More >>

• Runway to Nowhere: Ford Supermodel of the World Competition and Make Me a Supermodel

  published January 22, 2008

  "They look like hookers in the red-light district of every city in the world,” the sourpuss next to me says, gazing at the parade of... More >>

• Fashion Disasters Averted!

  published January 15, 2008

  "I'm one of those people who can just always find the dress. I can do that!" Phillip Bloch reminisces as we sit chatting at a really sad Golden... More >>

• Beyond the Values of the Dolls

  published January 8, 2008

  The Cabbage Patch dolls drooled all over the ballots and ate the hanging chads, the Bratz have criminal records and are ineligible to vote, but... More >>

• Time Is Money

  published January 1, 2008

  Buried among the cheery headlines in The New York Times on the first day of 2008—Bhutto assassinated, riots in Kenya, collapsing... More >>