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Miss Piggy, Hot Firefighters, And Kim Kardashian All In One Night

Scenes from capitalism's big annual fashion celebration

The Hunger Games: North America's Next Top Killer Is Finally Here

New York Fashion Week Fall 2012: Emilio Sosa Presents "Urban Geisha"

Boris Kuslitskiy​Award-winning Broadway costume designer and "Project Runway" finalist Emilio Sosa has no preference over costume or womenswear design -- to him, the processes are virtually the same. Perhaps that's why his Fall 2012 esosa collection, which premiered Wednesday night at Alvin ... More >>

New Teachers Union Ad Attacking Mayor Starts Today

Watch out, Mr. Mayor! The United Federation of Teachers is launching an ad campaign today that attacks Mike Bloomberg -- who has loudly criticized the union at a handful of public appearances this year. At his State of the City speech earlier this month, the mayor went after the UFT for insisting on ... More >>

REEL LIFE

The doc days aren’t over

Michelle Matson Wins, Sucklord Rules: Your Cheat Sheet to Bravo's Work of Art 2, Episode One

Actual poll currently running on the Bravo site There is a Bravo show called Work of Art: The Search for the Next Great Artist. As we've told you before, it's a reality-TV competition ostensibly about searching every gallery nook and gutter grate for America's Next Great Artist--not a Very Good Art ... More >>

Platinum Hit And The Mythical Aspects Of Making Music

via BravoMagic in action?​ Platinum Hit, Bravo's new talent competition for songwriters with Jewel as host and Kara DioGuardi as head judge, is not particularly enjoyable. Aside from the talented but super-ADD Sonyae (pronounced, somewhat ironically, like "soigné") and the arrogant but though ... More >>

Project Runway Winner Apologizes to Me!

​When I heard that Jay McCarroll -- the very first winner of Project Runway -- was co-judging with me for the other night's Mr. Philadelphia Gay pageant at Voyeur, I had a bittersweet twinge of surreal awkwardness. After all, the first and only time I met Jay, he angrily gave me the finger an ... More >>

Fashion Week: Herchcovitch Trails in the Wind, the Blonds Stage a Chinese Extravaganza, Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. Goes Six Ways 'Til Sunday

style.comL.A.M.B.​If there were a venn diagram of the final three shows we saw for Fashion Week, the central overlap would simply read "these are clothes" - because beyond the very basic scale of function, these designers had absolutely nothing in common in terms of aesthetic, quality, or succ ... More >>

Fashion Week: Christian Siriano Straps His Models to Death Machines

Araceli Cruz​Bless that Christian Siriano; he does not know how to whisper. The Project Runway alumnus unveiled his kind of restraint on Thursday evening at Lincoln Center with an initially inky collection: every dress was a variation on black, allowing the emphasis to fall on playful variatio ... More >>

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #1: Train, "Hey, Soul Sister"

F2K10 has been a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Relieve the journey here. The future of rock music, right here.​Here are some important things to know about Train's "Hey, Soul Sister."

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Project Runway Finale: Someone is Robbed, Everyone is Shiny

The Runway Rundown ​1. The fashion gods have spoken - and, also, Jessica Simpson. Season Eight of Project Runway has a winner at last - after 13 challenges at 90 minutes apiece, this distills to one resolution well earned. For everyone.

Project Runway:We Are All Birthing Chinese Prostitutes

The Runway Rundown ​1. With only five contestants left, and a limp challenge receding into the distance (Andy's winning Lululemon knockoff was immediately co-opted without pay by Heidi Klum for Grey and Listless Athletic Wear), this week's Project Runway challenge is a welcome return to two s ... More >>

Project Runway: Mondo's True Triumph

The Runway Rundown ​1. This week brings a surprisingly heady jolt to the torpid Project Runway season. One contestant loses his (impeccable) muse. Another bravely reveals a decade-long secret and immediately helps de-stigmatize an immense societal taboo. We're not even going to mock Michael ... More >>

Fashion Week: Donald Trump Storms Back to Michael Kors, Anna Sui Channels Prohibition

All photos by Stacey Anderson​Donald Trump took a break from his burgeoning mosque empire to drop by Michael Kors' presentation on Wednesday--and though his old limelight nemesis Anna Wintour was also in attendance, the runway was free of bloodshed. Trump did bray about God-knows-what in close ... More >>

Project Runway: Let this Hat Be a Metaphor for Your Failure, and Also Sex

The Runway Rundown ​1. At four episodes in and 13 souls remaining, the Runway ranks are still cluttered with extraneous contestants. Watching them band together for their next Trail of Tears march to Mood Fabrics, they clump like errant sequins at the bottom of our Chanel Chinatown handbag. ... More >>

Fashion's Night Out Preview: Where to Go to Score Free Goodies (and Free Drinks)

This lady knows how to party (really).​Dear Anna Wintour, Thank you so very much for creating the best party of the year! Last year's awesome debut of Fashion's Night Out -- Wintour's response to the dour economic and retail state -- concluded that the only way to make people shop again is to ... More >>

The Wonder Woman Makeover, or When Bad Things Happen to Superheroes

via the New York Times​Imagine our excitement when we learned that our dear Wonder Woman of the awesome star-speckled short shorts and bullet-busting arm wristlet-thingies and sexy-yet-rugged bustier (plus, calf-high go-go/shit-kickers!) was to get a makeover. Because, she already looked prett ... More >>

Water Sports Come to Broadway!

New Lips, old musicals, other stuff and Nunsense

Tim Gunn Added to Ludicrous Smurf Movie Roster

As Tim Gunn would say, "This worries me." However, because we love nothing more than to keep you updated with regard to this godforsaken, East Village-invading Smurf movie, you ought to know that adorable Project Runway mentor Tim Gunn has been added to the cast.

The Plaza Gets a Perfume ... Now, What About the 9th Avenue Underpass?

​Hooray for the Plaza, and for people who would like to smell like the Plaza -- i.e., "grace, beauty, elegance, and style" -- for a mere $95 per 1.7-ounce bottle. Krigler, a fifth-generation New York City-based fragrance house (eau de fancy!), has created an exclusive scent for the hotel. It's ... More >>

Project Runway: Home on the (Limited) Range

​And then there were four. And then there was Fashion Week. And then there was indisputably no justice in this cold, dark, malicious universe. Also, there were gloves.

Project Runway: Scary Clowns, Scarier Stripes

​And so it has come to this. After a season of sequins and spangles and bitchery--oh my!--the last challenge before Project Runway's Bryant Park finale has to be epic, a worthy encapsulation of these ragtag dreamers' weary journey to the white tents and glory beyond. It must be in deference t ... More >>

Michael Kors Dresses Weatherproof Mannequin, Gets Taste of His Own Project Runway Medicine

Michael Kors, Betsey Johnson, Diane von Furstenberg and 17 other top American designers are creating a summer-long "fashion show" that will march up Broadway from Herald Square to Times Square. The public art project, called "Sidewalk Catwalk" and put on by the Fashion Center Business Improvement D ... More >>

Project Runway: Ankle Biters Rule the Runway

myLifetime.com​Forget sleek and sexy and bring out your best Punky Brewster look: It's back to being a kid again, as noted in this week's installment of Project Runway. The challenge: Make kids clothes that are fashionable and age appropriate. Yay, the workroom turns into a romper room! As Heidi ... More >>

Project Runway: Let Heidi Klum Be Your Reward

​Welcome to the past. Or is it the future? Either way, they're both sparkly. Today, the top Project Runway finalists will display their collections at Bryant Park for the judges and 1,000 industry gawkers (including yours truly; check back here later for an appropriately cryptic report). But ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Twitpic by StWiltshire. The last full week of the election campaign was sorta fun -- as it should have been with Mayor Bloomberg spending $37,000 an hour on it. And it worked: the big papers endorsed him, as did another Democrat, and polls showed him way out of Bill Thompson's reach. We still su ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ "it's new york lol same shit lastnight some car was on fire in Fordham crazyy ass shit look." Twitpic by Itlabia. Can you believe last week at this time we were still thinking about Balloon Boy? Yes, that's how we passed our time before Steve Phillips, his "tubby temptress," and other exci ... More >>

Fashion Week in Review: Michael Kors, Anna Sui, Pamella Roland, Max Azria, Betsey Johnson

​ From the Betsey Johnson collection. Photo by David Wentworth. When Michael Kors tires of crafting pastel Barbarella dresses, he can sell designer migranes. I had one watching his Wednesday exhibition at Bryant Park -- not just because his pastel gowns caught the harsh glare of the revolvin ... More >>

Fashion Week in Review: Carlos Miele, Jill Stuart, Tracy Reese, Erin Fetherston

​ From the Jill Stuart show. Photo by Graham Rayman. What makes the fashion industry such an elitist, exclusory world? Vogue's Anna Wintour attempted to explain it in the moderately sympathetic new documentary The September Issue; she insisted, with clipped British finality, that the unstyli ... More >>

Emmy Nominees Include The Family Guy, Ernest Borgnine; Jon & Kate Snubbed

Emmy-nominated The Family Guy featuring Emmy-nominated Seth MacFarlane. For us the joy of the Emmy Nominations, announced this morning, is in the less-well-known categories. We see that there are only two shows, for instance, up for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction Program: Grandpa, Do You Know ... More >>

TO THE DEATH

Writers battle it out for LDM glory

NYC Skanks Site Shuts Down, Model Still Sues

In the same edition featuring the headline "Pussy Whipped" ("Project Runway" finalist hits ex-boyfriend with cat), the New York Post informs us under "Skanks Yanked" that the Skanks in NYC website allegedly thus defaming model Liskula Cohen has been taken down (though the cached version, from which ... More >>

Jane Comfort and Lloyd Newson Tell It Straight (or Not)

'24' Star Won't Shave Her Privates!

Direct hits on Abu Ghraib, some close shaves, and frank talk about that Foster parent

You Too Can Be a Duke or Duchess at the Imperial Court of NY

A Fierce Night in Brooklyn

Honoring a somewhat fatigued Project Runway victor at a South Slope house party

Strange Bedfellows

Accosted by fat guys, disgusted by Ann Coulter—all side effects of fabulousness

Starbucks Wants to Dress You!

The Dance of Chance

Old dog Merce Cunnigham shows off new tricks

NY Mirror

Mind Games

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Fashion High

Teens on the runway

A Tent Grows Across the Bridge

Bryant Park, meet Brooklyn Fashion Week

Project Runway Can't Fool Us

The final three: Will there be a Fashion upset?

The Best and Worst of Sex 2005

Tristan's annual roundup of 12 months of foot fetishes, male prostitutes, and porn-bashing

Rip Those Hems! Stab Those Backs! Fur Flies in Couture de Force