Fat-shionistas Unite!
Renata Espinosa is the New York editor of Fashion Wire Daily. She is also the co-founder of impressionistic fashion and art blog TheNuNu and a sometimes backup dancer for "The Anna Copa Cabanna Show."
With the first Full-Figured Fashion Week kicking off in New York, Renata Espinosa talks to plus-size bloggers and designers about chic clothes for the curvier set.
Not afraid to take fashion risks, Beth Ditto of The Gossip is the unofficial plus-sized icon of the moment. Her hotly anticipated collection for Ev...
The lead singer of The Gossip proudly adorned the cover of Conde Nast's fashion magazine Love.
The Fat Wars
Marisa Meltzer is coauthor of How Sassy Changed My Life. Her next book Girl Power will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in February.
Anna Wintour's remarks about Oprah's weight sent fat-acceptance activists into overdrive this week. Marisa Meltzer writes about the fat-shionista backlash, including a bestselling new book-Lessons From the Fat-O-Sphere-that argues that the best diet is no diet at all.
The Sexual Revolutionary
Kara Jesella is the co-author of How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time, published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.
Helen Gurley Brown made it good to be bad, but was she a great feminist? A new biography argues that Cosmo's editor belongs in the pantheon with Betty Friedan. By Kara Jesella.
What's in the Fabloids
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Angelina's expecting baby No. 7, the Idol judges loathe each other, and Bo Obama is getting more cover action than Britney this week. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
The most journalistic of celebrity magazines took a cue from the news and leads with the dramatic rescue of Richard Phillips from the hands of Soma...
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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