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Gen Z are abandoning the girlboss lifestyle to enter the new "snail girl era" taking off on TikTok. The term "snail girl" was coined by Sienna Ludbey in an article for Fashion Journal in September titled "'Snail girl era': Why I'm slowing down and choosing to be happy rather than busy." "'Hot take for the week, my inner girlboss is dead and my 'snail girl' era has begun,'" Ludbey wrote. Its features editor Maggie Zhou said in the video: "the girlboss is rolling over in her grave, welcome to the snail girl era." Although choosing the snail girl lifestyle may be more gratifying, it could result in financial or other consequences further down the road.
Persons: , Sienna Ludbey, Ludbey, Michelle P, Netflix's, Sheryl Sandberg's, King, Maggie Zhou, Suzy Welch, University's, Welch, who's Organizations: Service, Fashion Journal, Fashion, University's Stern School of Business Locations: New
Samantha then asks to be put on speaker phone to pay her respects to the place. The call ends with Samantha still 3,500 miles away. Throughout the seasons, men and bistros came and went, most often within a single 22-minute episode. Each of the characters had an archetype to inhabit: flighty Carrie, career-minded Miranda, marriage-minded Charlotte, libertine Samantha. Samantha was a caricature of licentiousness, but Cattrall’s enthusiasm for the role — the husky voice, the double-dare-you smile, the symphony of sex noises — made her irreplaceable.
Persons: Carrie, Carrie’s, Samantha, Aidan —, John Corbett, , bistros, Miranda, Charlotte, Cattrall, Patricia Field Organizations: City Locations: London, New York
Ugly As Sin and Toastier Than Hades: Meet the Puffer Shoe
  + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Grace Cook | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
LAST DECEMBER, Marcus Wilson cracked. They resemble “the slippers my nana once wore,” Mr. Wilson said. “But they’re so warm I don’t care.”Behold the puffer—a clumpy, shlumpy, wildly unsexy breed of “ugly shoe” that makes Crocs look like Manolos. Basically parkas for your toes, these men’s and women’s styles are generally crafted from layers of padded insulation and water-resistant nylon. Prada makes a hefty boot version; Ugg offers a clog-like take; and Nike sells a fluffed-up mule.
The cause was cancer, said Anthony Yurgaitis, his husband and business partner. Princess Diana wore them, as did Paloma Picasso, Anjelica Huston, the designer Carolina Herrera and virtually the entire staff of Vogue magazine. The company began in the early 1970s in a London boutique frequented by Bianca Jagger and other rock star adjacents. It was presided over, salon-style, by the exuberant Mr. Blahnik. A Manhattan store, opened in 1981, was an afterthought and losing money when Dawn Mello, then the fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman, the New York department store, introduced Mr. Malkemus, one of her copy writers, to Mr. Blahnik.
Persons: George Malkemus, Manolo Blahnik, Sarah Jessica Parker, Anthony Yurgaitis, Long, Manolos, Ms, Parker, Diana, Paloma Picasso, Anjelica Huston, Carolina Herrera, Bianca Jagger, Blahnik, Dawn Mello, Bergdorf Goodman, Malkemus Organizations: City, HBO, Vogue, New Locations: Manhattan, London, Canary, New York
She told Variety that she saw the opportunity to make money and capitalized on it. Kim said she called up a store, bought five pairs of the Manolos for $700 each, and resold them on eBay for $2,500! She said she became so "obsessed" with the return that she began to sell off her own clothes that she no longer wore. Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesSource: Variety
Persons: Kim, Ethan Miller Organizations: Variety, eBay
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