Author Archives: amyodell
The Kitchen Is a Challenge
I am just going to quote Sex and the City, I don’t care: “They say in New York you’re always looking for one of three things: a job, a boyfriend, or an apartment.” I’m looking for the third. And you … Continue reading
Dispatch from Zone A: Spending the Hurricane With the Hipsters
At the risk of accruing stalkers, I will reveal: I live in Zone A, the Battery Park area, where Hurricane Irene threatened to raise sea levels to the fourth floor of what are normally very dry buildings. That newscasters’ wet … Continue reading
From the Annals of WTF Press Releases: Joan Rivers’s Wonderful Humor Under Attack
***PRESS RELEASE*** PETITION TO E! “FASHION POLICE”: STOP MOCKING VICTIMS OF COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION Popular campaign on Change.org calls on E! Entertainment and “Fashion Police” host Joan Rivers to immediately end “Starlet or Streetwalker” segment, which activists say stigmatizes and … Continue reading
Thin Now, and Thin Then.
I follow fashion news as scrupulously as humanly possible for my job during the day, but every now and then, out of personal interest on an evening when there’s nothing good on Bravo, I do a Google News search for … Continue reading
Man With Sandwich Projects New Alexander Wang Ad Campaign
Last night on 14th Street and 8th Avenue, I saw the elusive vehicle that’s driving around Manhattan projecting images of Alexander Wang’s new ad campaign on the side of buildings. I found myself mere steps from the magical Wang mobile … Continue reading
The Top Ten Places to Wear This Giambattista Valli Couture Look
1. Your wedding. Few gowns could say “I love you because you love me just the way I am” better than this one. 2. The bedding department at Bed, Bath, & Beyond. Lie face down on one of the linen-display … Continue reading
This Explains SO MUCH
“According to a study, many winemakers have been deliberately and ‘systematically’ understating the alcohol content of their wines on the labels.” And now all those times girls barfed in cabs, passed out in showers, fell asleep in their down jackets before … Continue reading
Stingray Shitty
The surface of the perfectly turquoise water is upset by large, freckled bricks of sunburned human flesh. There they stand, waist-high in the distance, grouped in clumps, their bellies hanging over their red and blue swim trunks, their backs puckering … Continue reading
Henvy
Three girls are sitting in an apartment at 10:32 one Friday night, watching the Britney Spears Live From Las Vegas DVD (filmed November 18, 2001). GIRL 1 is a former model, who gave up modeling — or what is for … Continue reading
Welcome!
Thank you for visiting my Disco Pineapple blog! I mostly write about fashion, but my interests most definitely do not stop there. What really gets me off in life, is anything that is funny or amusing in some… fashion. Oh yeah, … Continue reading
