Lynn Yaeger
Yaeger in 2013
Yaeger in 2013
BornNew York City, U.S.[1]
OccupationContributing fashion editor and columnist
Website
www.vogue.com/contributor/lynn-yaeger

Lynn Yaeger is a contributing fashion editor to Vogue.com and a contributing writer to Vogue.[2][3] She is a former fashion reporter for The Village Voice, having worked for the paper for 30 years. Her column, "Elements of Style," was renamed "Frock Star" in February 2007. Yaeger is also a regular contributor to The New York Times, The New Yorker[1], The Atlantic[4], Style Magazine, Travel + Leisure, and countless antiques & collectibles dealers.

Yaeger was also a fashion columnist for Full Frontal Fashion, a style website associated with Sundance Channel and the curator for the vintage section of fashion retail website yoox.com.[5][6]

Early life

Lynn Yaeger was born in New York City[7] and grew up on Long Island, which she has said she hated.[8]

Style

She is known for her eccentric personal style, powdered face and dark, cupid's-bow lipstick as well as cutting her own hair. She is a Japanophile.[6] In an interview with PAPER magazine, fashion designer Marc Jacobs said that Yaeger was one of his muses[9] and her style has been noted to influence other fashion designers like Undercover, Alexander Wang, and Chloé.[10]

Awards

In 2008, Yaeger won first place in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' category of humor writing for newspapers with more than 100,000 circulation.[11]

In 2019 the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) awarded her the Media Award in Honor of Eugenia Sheppard.[8]

Personal life

Yaeger is friends with Michael Musto from the Village Voice, but said that she was "terrified" of him prior to becoming friends. She also described Mickey Boardman as "the most fun" who "never said a bad word about anyone." She describe Paper magazine as "kind of the bible of downtown cool" with editors "who were friendlier"; "it felt like they got me, especially Mickey."[12]

References

  1. 1 2 "Lynn Yaeger | The New Yorker". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  2. ↑ therealreal (2016-09-09), Real Talk: A Conversation With Vogue Contributing Editor Lynn Yaeger, archived from the original on 2020-12-01, retrieved 2018-07-02
  3. ↑ "Lynn Yaeger - Vogue". Vogue. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  4. ↑ Yaeger, Lynn. "Lynn Yaeger". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  5. ↑ "Exclusive interview with collections curator Lynn Yaeger: "These". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  6. 1 2 Schuessler, Bobby. "Yoox Lynn Yaeger Vintage Collection". www.refinery29.com. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  7. ↑ "Lynn Yaeger". Vogue. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  8. 1 2 "CFDA". cfda.com. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  9. ↑ "Lynn Yaeger Is Keeping the Fashion Fantasy Alive". PAPER. 2018-03-27. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  10. ↑ Schneier, Matthew (9 March 2016). "Lynn Yaeger: Fashion Muse". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  11. ↑ http://www.columnists.com/awards/column-contest-winners/ Complete list of National Society of Newspaper Columnists' award winners
  12. ↑ "Friends Who Saw It All (Published 2021)". 2021-04-12. Retrieved 2023-08-10.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.