{"id":30385,"date":"2015-09-09T19:50:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T23:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=30385"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:50:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T23:50:33","slug":"pet-peeve-celebrity-profiles-and-sans-fards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/pet-peeve-celebrity-profiles-and-sans-fards\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet Peeve: Celebrity Profiles and SANS FARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been wondering if it is possible for a writer to profile a famous woman for a magazine without<\/em> mentioning in the first paragraph that the woman in question is SANS FARDS<\/a> (without makeup).<\/p>\n

The answer: It is not possible.<\/p>\n

Here is the first paragraph of Lynn Hirschberg’s profile of model Gigi Hadid, who is on the cover of W’s September issue.<\/p>\n

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And here is Christopher Tennant’s lede<\/a> for InStyle’s September cover story on actress Anne Hathaway.<\/p>\n

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Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div>\n

Props to Christopher for saying “makeup-free” instead of the more popular phrasing, which is Lynn’s “without a trace of makeup.” “Without a trace of makeup” is the “crisp white shirt<\/a>” of celebrity profiles. It’s used so often, I believe there’s a function key programmed to spit out that phrase.<\/p>\n

My new goal is to someday be an interviewee who is described in the first paragraph as “caked in makeup.”\u00a0 Just to shake things up, you know? <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been wondering if it is possible for a writer to profile a famous woman for a magazine without mentioning in the first paragraph that the woman in question is SANS FARDS (without makeup). The answer: It is not possible. Here is the first paragraph of Lynn Hirschberg’s profile of model Gigi Hadid, who is…<\/p>\n

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