January 26: Tavi, Brangelina, Axl
Today on the Scroll: fashion media express contempt for Tavi Gevinson; Globe has high hopes for breakup of Brangelina; and, happy at last, an autographing Axl Rose.
Tempest In A Trilby: Fashion Blogger Tavi Gevinson’s Hated Hat [Jezebel]: Jeanne Beker, 57, uses Twitter to take issue with the “outrageous pink bow” headgear sported by the 13-year-old style pundette — who was perched in the front row of Christian Dior’s couture show in Paris: “Is it too much to think that in our brave new hypermediated world, we might restrict ourselves to only saying things about people on the Internet that we would actually say to them in real life?,” asks Jezebel contributor Jenna Sauers. “Naïve, I know. But it seems odd to micro-blog about someone while she is sitting within whispering distance of you.” Closer to home, Flare editor Lisa Tant was “sobbing to think” about Tavi’s privileged seat — arguing that she lacks the “experience and education” of her elders. But after being noticed for putting up a spirited argument for her own job, Tant tweeted that she was being “taken out of context.”
Nothing could be better than an end to this affair [Lynn Crosbie, Globe and Mail]: At least one broadsheet is taking News of the World-generated rumours that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are splitsville as close enough to fact. “It is not possible to know why this absurdly rich and amazingly famous (for two lifeless dullards) pair have decided to give up,” writes Crosbie. “Could it be that any relationship predicated on obvious sexual misconduct and a farrago of lies can never come to any good?” Feeling more vindicated is Brangelina author Ian Halperin, a year after he predicted that Michael Jackson had six months to live, expressing frisson via Facebook: “Oops I did it again.” [Previously on Mondoville]
Reclusive Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses autographs guitar for collector [HoundsTV]: Redheaded rocker, caught smiling in public, scrawls on an instrument to the delight of one fan who figured out he’d be stationed in Toronto between tour dates this week in Hamilton and Montreal, prior to swinging back to the Air Canada Centre on Thursday. Danko Jones, the opening act for GN’R fans who like waiting three or four hours for Axl, had to clarify via Twitter that the London they were playing wasn’t the one in England.
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