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Gina

I have an addiction to shoes!

About Me

I'm the Fashion Director of Seventeen Magazine and love, love, love my job and the people I work with. I'm pretty chill: I like watching films, having a good meal, listening to Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me on NPR, riding my bike in Prospect Park, and catching the occasional Tori Spelling (or Markie Post) movie on the Lifetime Movie Network.Layout made by StanleyThePanda at CreateBlog.com .

My Interests

Fashion, magazines, movies, British tabloids, books, red wine, Hadeki Matsui, work, Diet Coke, Fluff, Thaddeus, shopping, friends, a good cup of coffee, music and my animals.

I'd like to meet:

I don't know, surprise me.

Music:

My music taste is stuck in the 80's: The Smiths, The Cure, The Clash, Fugazi. More recently, I'm liking: Cat Power, American Analog Set, Sufjan Stevens, Beck and I've been known to enjoy Kylie Minogue too.

Movies:

The Princess Bride, Don't Look Now, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Sixteen Candles, The Wedding Singer, Donnie Darko, too many to name....

Television:

Project Runway, CBS Sunday Morning Show, America's Funniest Home Videos, Charlie Rose, The Daily Show. I know, it's all over the place.

Books:

The Secret History, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Please Kill Me, In Cold Blood, too many to name...

Heroes:

My mom.

My Blog

The Infamous Fashion Closet

Julie, our special projects assistant, posted a really cute interview on her blog about the fashion closet and my assistant Jamila. It got me thinking how lame I was for not doing that sooner on my ow...
Posted by Gina on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:50:00 PST

Internships

It's been a while, sorry. Work has kept me busy! This is the time of year when we have a lot of great interns working with us at 17-everyone is off from school, so I get to know them a little better t...
Posted by Gina on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:47:00 PST

How We Pick the Clothing That Goes Into 17

Once a month my team and I pitch fashion stories to my boss (Atoosa). She takes a look at our ideas and ones from the other departments (like beauty or features) and decides what makes sense for the w...
Posted by Gina on Sun, 14 May 2006 03:49:00 PST

What a Fashion Editor Does

Next big question: what exactly does a fashion editor do? Well, there are two types:1)a MARKET editor goes to fashion shows and designer showrooms and gets in all the cool clothes and accessories that...
Posted by Gina on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:12:00 PST

How I Got to Be a Fashion Editor

I've gotten a lot of posts/questions about how I got started in the fashion business. Okay, here's the story... I went to Boston University and majored in Journalism/Communications and minored in Film...
Posted by Gina on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:56:00 PST

just got back from Paris

Hi guys! I got to go on this amazing trip to Paris. I met the next designer for Target's Go International collection (shhh... can't tell you yet, but it's pretty cool). I just got back last night, so ...
Posted by Gina on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:53:00 PST