Lucky: But How Will Your Life Affect Me?

We’ve said some unpleasant things about Kim France, but we’ve never called her a liar.

Until now.

So when she [Lucky’s market director Anne Keane] came to me in April, closed the door behind herself, and blurted out, “I am with bun in oven…”

“I am with bun in oven”? “I am with bun in oven”? Oh, come on, Kim. No human being has ever uttered such an overly precious phrase.

That accusation off our chests, we can state with confidence that the rest of Kim’s “Editor’s Letter,” November, is absolutely true. How do we know? Because it’s packed with the same self-indulgent babble Kim foists upon us every month. Like this:

…I knew that we were about to witness an exceedingly well-put-together pregnancy. And indeed, Anne has let none of us down.

Oh, good, we’re so pleased that the woman whose body is going through momentous changes while she produces another human being hasn’t let Kim down by wearing comfy shoes or a baggy top. No one would want Kim to be disappointed, right? No one should sacrifice style for comfort, and certainly not while pregnant, and definitely not in front of Queen Kim!

Just as Kim counts on Anne’s fashion sense, we can rest securely in the knowledge that, no matter what Kim France encounters, she will inevitably make herself the center of the story.  She does it so well, it’s like she practices.

Oh, right.  She does.

Comments

[MissPinkKate]

You forgot the part later where she says that readers begged Lucky to put her picture back in the magazine, because Anne was always the most fashionable of the three. Ummm, ouch to the other two?

[Kristen]

Yeah, I noticed what MissPinkKate said, too.

I "unsubscribed" from Lucky after reading for two years because the writing was just too painful to bear. I do like some of their aesthetic though, and when I got an insanely cheap subscription in the mail, I took it. Now I only read the editor's letter--just to see how you are going to skewer it!

I love this blog! Thanks!

[Glossed Over]

We wondered about that too--and then we started to question whether it was Anne Keane's idea to step aside, or whether Kim France suggested it, and why was it necessary anyway since being pregnant shouldn't affect one's fashion sense (especially since the editor's letter touts Keane's continued style), and then we had to consider the massive hypocrisy afoot if putting another editor on the page was Kim's idea, and then...well, you get the idea.

Thanks for the comments!