If you’re in the mood for some teenybopping treats tonight, DJ AM is spinning a special set at Stereo for their one year anniversary, which means you’ll hear a lot of Justin Timberlake, you’ll see a lot of Charlotte Ronson dresses, and your eye candy will be the social equivalent of a pixie stick – superthin, supertarty, and full of magical hyper-inducing powder… so maybe you can grab a ride from this one?
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today I escaped the city and culled bits and pieces of Saturday’s outfit… only in suburbia, loves…
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Sally Singer’s dinner for Isabel Toledo in her apartment, and what’s the secret to this picture that all the cool kids know?
a) Sarah Ellison cuts Isabel and Sally’s hair in her bathtub once a month…
b) Mickey Boardman and Simon Doonan are swapping jobs for a Paper story…
c) Right behind them is a portrait of Andy Warhol drawn by Anna Wintour
d) Zaldy and Sally Singer are hardcore fashion neighbors – they both live in the Chelsea Hotel and sometimes share the elevator…
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Act Eight, in which the Imaginary Socialite rides home on a train with a guy. Who works at one of the biggest clothing labels in the world. And he goes…
Hotty Trained: We recruit at Boston campuses every year because we like how preppy the girls are.
Imaginary Socialite: The girls?
Hotty Trained: Sure. They love that straight guys work at [big label] and it’s always like, the tighter they’ve got their pearls on, the better they are wasted on the floor. We just round them up during recruiting sessions and take them out.
Imaginary Socialite: Seriously? What else do you do during rrecruiting sessions? Research campus style to bring back to the designers?
Hotty Trained: No, mostly we just drink and make it look like working at [big label] is a huge party. It’s good for us. I mean occasionally we actually find someone to hire, someone who’s smart and gets our style, and can fit in with us…
Imaginary Socialite: Like the girls who party with you after the recruiting sessions?
Hotty Trained: Oh hell no, they don’t stand a chance.
Okay first, guess the label. And also, this is the SECOND time I’ve heard inappropriate fashion gossip on Amtrak – seriously guys, you think nobody else with a Lanvin hookup rides the train? Come on.
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Top ten ideas for countdown shows…
Whose culture is this and does anybody know?
I wait and tell myself “life ain’t chess,”
But no one comes in and yes, you’re alone…
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And behold, the best ad-hoc marketing campaign I’ve ever seen… is it a band?
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Hi, this is the Imaginary Socialite, please leave a message. Beep!
Hey, it’s the Seeker. I need you to help me find some girls. No, not like that – listen – I need you to help me find some girls who want to go out on Halloween. Tyson and I are going as dead Samurai warriors – we’re getting our costumes imported from Japan. We want some dead geishas to come with us… so, if you have any friends who want to dress up and come out with us on Saturday night or Halloween, we promise to go to every good party in the city and also introduce you to rock stars. And fake rock stars too, who are more fun. Okay? Love you babe. Bye.
Sorry, Arielle and I are going as Cher and Dionne on Halloween…
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To: am.i@imaginarysocialite.com
From: TheBest@condenast.com
Ladies,
I’m working on a magazine story:
How to recover from extreme mortification
It’s inspired by the model who fell twice at the Vivienne Westwood show but got up and kept confidently strutting down the runway.
So, have you ever experienced extreme embarrassment and handled it well? Let me know what you did and how you recovered!
So wait, you were only inspired by one model? Seriously, I would make this story all about models… it seems like this was the season for spilling, but I guess once Kate Moss takes a fall and gets even bigger and beautifully better, it becomes some sort of a model homage or trend…
Of course, Kate’s fall was more metaphorical…
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Spotted on the LES: mop top, misfit, and junior MisShape Jackson Pollis plastered on tee shirts and tote bags across the bar. Apparently, Interview and Paper sprinkling their readers with him wasn’t enough… so is this the Che Guavara from Urban Outfitters tee of a new generation? It’s partly up to you… starting next week, The Imaginary Socialite will be giving away one of the rarified pieces of Jackson-Wear, designed by la petite art star Dana V.
Stay tuned for how to win, but rest assured, it will involve a quiz… and you know you just adore those quizzes…
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JB: …but you took this photo of my girlfriend that I hated!
Imaginary Socialite: So?
JB: So I can’t be your crush. What if I look just as bad?
Imaginary Socialite: Ummm… what if we let your girlfriend style you and take the picture for me? Then will you do it?
JB: Awesome idea, yeah, absolutely! But wait… if I have a girlfriend, how can I be the reader’s new crush?
Imaginary Socialite: Ah. Well. That’s one of the great mysteries of the world.
JB: Like the pyramids and Atlantis?
Imaginary Socialite: Like why Marie Antoinette was allowed to run over 90 minutes. And include Molly Shannon.
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To: am.i@imaginarysocialite.com
From: FashionRocks@teenvogue.com
We’re searching for some very cool, Balenciaga-ish leggings for an upcoming Teen Vogue photo shoot. We’d like them to be made by a young designer who’s either in school or just graduated. If you’ve got a pair to show us, please take a photo and send it to our MySpace account along with your contact info.
Hey Jordan Silver, show us what you got…
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To: am.i@imaginarysocialite.com
From: steve@thesupersuper.com
Super Super needs a London intern to help out on the ad/ sponsor/ marketing side. If you’re good at talking to grown ups and still cool enough to get the Super Super magic, then send an email about why you want to work your Top Shop wearing ass off for free.
I mean, you might get to flirt with Namalee and or Morgan, so that’s one reason…
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Alison, 25
Okay, there’s some false advertising in the title, since you’ve probably had a crush on Alison for a very, very long time. Still, here she is with her very own I.S. card and soon she’ll have her very own fashion line at ShopBop… stay tuned!
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Am I The IS: So what did you do today?
Jette Black: I lay in bed watching Laguna Beach reruns.
Am I The IS: Omigosh me too! I’m so addicted!
Jette Black: Who lets their child drive a Ferrari and spend $4000 on terrible Ed Hardy clothing? And who taught them to be so vicious to each other?
Am I The IS: They didn’t have The Electric Company when they were growing up. Clearly. Why do we watch them?
Jette Black: It’s like watching a model trip on the catwalk.
Am I The IS: I like Rocky and Tessa though. They’re sort of heroic in their loneliness and their self awareness.
Jette Black: Were you like the Tessa of your high school?
Am I The IS: Sadly, I was the Cami of my high school. Blonder, but yeah. And you were the Kyndra, weren’t you? Oh, and I have this theory that Rocky looks just like Leann Rimes, right?
Jette Black: OMG.
and don’t pretend you weren’t washed up in your bed (or whomever’s bed) watching the same shows, too…
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Okay, so “A Night Out With… Jeffrey Sebelia” was unexpected (and he’s friends with Norman Reedus? what?) but the real surprise factor for this week’s Sunday Styles goes to Bill Cunningham – why is Laura Bennet in your photo spread?!
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