With everyone atwitter over the sordid ranking of Marie Claire editor Joanna Coles at Fashion Week – second row, behind Brandon Holley – we did some poking around to see why designers were placing a magazine's top editor in the nosebleeds. And then we came across the above photos.
Who's that? She's Cleo Glyde, Marie Claire's new "style director," as of Jan. 22, coming this way from Vogue Australia.
The photo on the left was shot on April 30, 2003. The photo on the right was shot on June 1, 2005.
Moral of the story? Any magazine that puts a woman who wears the same horrid cocktail napkin multiple times in public over the course of several years in its employ should be pleased as Kool-Aid to even have a seat at Fashion Week.
Update: A Hearst mouthpiece writes in to insist "Joanna Coles sat in the front row for every show she attended," including Vera Wang. Maybe she was just leaning back in her front row chair when she was spotted in the second row.
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ewwww that squirt skirt is so fugly! marie claire's is an old lady magazine anyways, so who cares?
why all the fuss, it's a prada skirt. doesn't that make it immediately "the shit?" you guys are too much.
Forget the skirt — what kind of "style director" goes out in public like that without a proper bra?! Why be so mean to your girls, Joanna?
Eeeew it is all so bad: skirt, top, hair, boobs, make-up… And this woman is supposed to tell us about style?!
Either those are two different skirts, or one or both times she doesn't have it on straight because none of the colored panels match up. I don't know if that makes it better or worse.