VIDEO: The Next Generation of Personal Shoppers, for the Wall Street Journal
Posted by jenni.avins on May 10, 2013 in Fashion, Uncategorized, Video | 0 comments On testing out personal shoppers for this Wall Street Journal...read more
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VIDEO: The Pencil Skirt is Reborn, for the Wall Street Journal
Posted by jenni.avins on Apr 5, 2013 in Fashion, Uncategorized, Video | 0 comments Live pencil skirt punditry for the Wall Street Journal....read more
Pencil in Some Fun, for the Wall Street Journal
Posted by jenni.avins on Apr 4, 2013 in Fashion, Uncategorized | 0 comments Now in look-at-me prints, the strict, knee-length skirt sheds its serious side QUICK: PICTURE a woman in a pencil skirt. The image that likely appears is of a tweed-clad office worker or an old-fashioned schoolmarm, or maybe a smoky-eyed fashion editor in all black and bondage heels. The straight and narrow silhouette that defines the pencil skirt, usually associated with strictness and...read more
Falling for the Flip Side, for the Wall Street Journal
Posted by jenni.avins on Mar 22, 2013 in Fashion, Uncategorized | 0 comments For some jewelers, what you don’t see takes center stage F. Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal (2) Front (left) and back (right) of Indo Russian Diamond Choker with Emerald and Pearl Drops, Price Upon Request, Munnu/The Gem Palace, 212-861-0606 TO THE CASUAL OBSERVER, jewelry is all about catching the eye—how a stone captures the light, or the way a certain shade...read more
VIDEO: Fashion Week Snowball Challenge for the Cut and New York Magazine
Posted by jenni.avins on Feb 10, 2013 in Fashion, Uncategorized, Video | 0 comments Here’s what happens when you bring a bodega bag of pre-packed snowballs to the Alexander Wang show. Watch it...read more
Contributor, New York Magazine and the Cut
Posted by jenni.avins on Oct 3, 2012 in Culture, Fashion, Uncategorized | 0 comments Click “read more” for a link to work at New York and the Cut!read more
VIDEO: I Wore Roller Sandals to Fashion Week, for The Cut and New York Magazine
Posted by jenni.avins on Sep 13, 2012 in Fashion, Uncategorized, Video | 0 comments Oh yes I did.read more
Tuck It All in There, for VICE
Posted by jenni.avins on Jun 1, 2012 in Culture, Fashion, Travel, Uncategorized | 0 comments FETISHIZING THE LATEX DREAM IN THE BRAZILIAN RAINFOREST Jenni tries on Fetisso’s best-selling gloves in the factory’s stockroom. Sometime in the mid-1960s, near the small Swiss town of Vordemwald, little Willi Graber was playing by himself on his grandparents’ farm. He wandered into the kitchen, where something in a basket of old clothes caught his eye: a pair of yellow latex kitchen...read more
Free Range Fur, for VICE
Posted by jenni.avins on Feb 17, 2012 in Culture, Fashion, Uncategorized | 21 comments FREE RANGE FUR: IS IT STILL MURDER IF YOU TRAP IT, SKIN IT, AND SEW IT YOURSELF? By Jenni Avins Photos by Dustin Fenstermacher Coming face-to-face—actually, face-to-exposed-leg-muscle—with the half-skinned fox. That’s Larry laughing in the bacakground. Years ago, I worked for a fashion designer who had a penchant for fur dyed in bold colors that ranged from acid-green to plum. Most of...read more
He Kills It: On the hunt with a local muskrat trapper, for New York Magazine
Posted by jenni.avins on Jan 8, 2012 in Culture, Fashion, Uncategorized | 1 comment For New York Magazine, Jan. 8, 2012 A south Jersey marsh in a December drizzle isn’t pleasant. It’s gray. And there’s a great deal of mud. But with a guide like John Zander—all strong shoulders and Boy Scout manners—the salty morning breeze has a measure of charm. Zander is steering an outboard motorboat across the creeks of the Cohansey River, raindrops beading on...read more