Aldo Spring 2010:

(via The Fashionisto)

Busy weeks = hazardously written post-it notes hazardously taped all over my computer. I’m trying to adjust to a new and excruciatingly jammed schedule, and so far I’m not adjusting well. That equals long nights and a severe lack of sleep. Woe :(

(So much dust!)

I’ve been reading lots of entries across the blogosphere about VF’s “it girl” issue and here are a bunch of interesting ones:

Putting the “Fair” in Vanity Fair

“Pretty Young White Girls On OUR Covers:” Racists Come Out In Support Of Magazine Segregation

Vanity Fair’s “Hollywood It Girls” lacking some color

Young Hollywood is white, thin

Vanity Fair’s “New Hollywood” issue completely lacks diversity

I don’t think Vanity Fair editors set out with the goal, “Hmm, let’s see, who are the prettiest white girls we can feature on the cover of this issue?” I think that there actually is the issue of not having enough representation in Hollywood from girls of color. (Zoe Saldana and Frieda Pinto should’ve made this cover, though.) I think the problem here is less about VF editors wanting to sell whiteness over coloredness, and more that there is a severe lack of girls of color who make up the Hollywood circle (although the former is still a pretty prominent problem — just not relevant in this case).

And the thing is that Vanity Fair apologists shouldn’t be defensive about the backlash that VF gets from this issue, because it’s not fair to have to give an answer to, “Well which colored person would you put on the cover?” You’re right, there aren’t as many girls of color, but why aren’t there? There has to be a reason, and that reason absolutely is not that there are just no good colored actresses.

I love this song. And if I don’t stop and think about his douchebaggery personality, Kanye West is so attractive in this. And Ne-yo…

As a certain exiled 2PM member once said, “That’s one sexy doode no doubt.”

(WHAT THE WHAT TAYLOR SWIFT WINNING BEST ALBUM.)

Because I am super jaded about Kpop, I really don’t think Jung Yong Hwa (and by extension, CN Blue) is going to have any lasting power in the Kpop mainstream. At the moment they can still coast on Yong Hwa’s stint on “You’re Beautiful,” but that’s not going to last long unless Yong Hwa picks up another role asap. But if he does that, he’s going to compromise the musical side of him, which kind of puts CN Blue in the back seat again. Look at Kim Joon from T-Max. What the hell happened to him? And T-Max? Two hit wonder with “Almost Paradise” and then “Fight the Bad Feeling.”

CN Blue definitely has a unique sound and they deserve more success and recognition, but their management is half-assing them. Their first official Korean debut mini-album consists of only five songs, and two of them are recycled from their Japanese debut. It’s all about pushing out the product while it’s still hot. Who cares about musical integrity and gravitas? In another three, four months, like so many others before them, Jung Yong Hwa and CN Blue will be tiny, diminishing blips on everybody’s radars.