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I stood in my closet this morning and realized, quite suddenly and with a surprisingly fierce finality, that I hate everything I own. It wasn’t surprising. This happens to […]

Something alarming is happening, and as with most things I find alarming or annoying, I blame Kim Kardashian. Lately, women—otherwise sane, relatively grounded women—have stopped […]

Of the myriad things men will never understand about women, the one that tops the most lists are those token pairs of so-painful-we-can-hardly-walk shoes that […]

In our office, there are two sets of women: Those who wear makeup every single day, and those who don’t ever wear a stitch. I happen […]

Lashes are everything  – that’s, like, rule #1 of makeup. A good coat of mascara makes the eyes look bigger, draws attention to the most […]

At least once a week, I send my colleague Carrie a link to some very expensive clothing item or accessory over Slack, our intra-office messaging […]

Dear salon owners, Recently, I found myself at the tail end of a two-hour stint in a salon chair, flanked by two girls who were engaged in a […]

Many years ago, I went to a party to do my editor-mingling duties, which include lots of small talk and tiny hors d’oeuvres. That night, I […]

Urban Outfitters has been courting controversy for years. It’s part of their schtick — they stride the line between a raised eyebrow and a raised fist with […]

Like millions of kids, I played with Barbies a lot. I sewed teensy clothes for them and spent hours dressing them (perhaps foreshadowing my future career?). I washed Barbie’s plastic […]

Happy birthday to us! It’s crazy to believe that Shoppist is one year old! Over the past 12 months, we’ve covered everything from store openings (you […]

Last week, I went to a wedding. One of the guests was a politician, there with his wife who looked to be in her mid- to […]

Remember all the hubbub over Blake Lively’s gloomily-designed lifestyle site Preserve? Criticisms were extensive: ranging from slamming $7 ketchup to, well, the lack of preserves. […]

At long last, Blake Lively’s new “lifestyle site” is here. It is called Preserve and it is one part Martha Stewart, one part Kinfolk, two parts painful […]

Over the last year, there’s been a lot of talk about shaming. (In fact, Jezebel called 2013 “The Year of Shaming.”) Fat-shaming, slut-shaming: It seems like […]