By Drew Grant 3/29/12 4:41pm

Thursday Styles

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Mob Wives Now Worthy of Thursday Styles

When The New York Times Sunday Style section wrote a 2000 word profile on Snooki back in 2010, the criticism was unending. How dare the Grey Lady cover Snooki as a real cultural phenomenon? Don’t they know that if you just ignore something for long enough, it goes away (or gets pregnant)?

Instead of taking the hint, today’s Thursday Styles section features a big cover story on VH1′s grown-up version of the Jersey Shore (but with guns), Mob Wives. Read More

By Drew Grant 3/15/12 4:50pm

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The New York Times’s Edith Wharton-ing of Tinsley Mortimer

Today’s Thursday Styles in The New York Times profiled  Tinsley Mortimer, former reality show star and legitimate socialite.  Speaking of which: can’t we think of a better term to apply to her? “Socialite” almost seems too ubiquitous a rank–like hipster–to qualify anymore, since anyone who is photographed doing anything above 43rd st. is now deemed a socialite. Though Ms. Mortimer might embody the definition of the word as “a person who attends many fashionable upper-class social events and who is well known because of this.”

Especially now that Ms. Mortimer has returned from a self-imposed hibernation to re-brand herself. Tinsley returns! Read More