It's A Girl Thing: Tween Queens and the Commodification of the Girl's Tween Market

A few years of research, thoughts and adjustments that all led to a completed film which, framed by the structure of a faux interactive website for tween girls, looks closely, and critically, at the tween market's evolution and the role of Disney and Nickelodeon's tween queens (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Miley Cryus, Miranda Cosgrove, Kiki Palmer, Selena Gomez, and more) in the market's explosion.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

THE ROW looking for UNPAID Interns on Craigslist - Times Must Be Tight

Craigslist

Reply to: job-368300916@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-07-07, 12:01AM EDT

The Row is all about a classic, chic sensibility for women and
men, incorporating tailor made techniques to all of our garmets. We
sell to the best botiques worldwide New York (Barneys), Los Angeles
(Maxfield), Paris(Marie Louisa), Tokyo (Isetan, Adelaide, etc.) and
others.

This position is part-time (3-4 days a week). This internship requires
a 2-3 month commitment.

Responsibilites will include doing flat sketches, organizing inventory
for development and market samples, corresponding with local
factories, sourcing fabric,
finding inspiration material, working on excel spreadsheets, running
errands, putting together tech packs, sourcing different garment
industry vendors.

This job has a lot of responsibilites and requires someone who is
thorough and self motivated.

PLEASE EMAIL A RESUME IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO APPLY FOR THE INTERNSHIP

Compensation: this internship is unpaid, metrocard will be provided.
This is an internship job
Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Lizzie Olsen - Where Have You Been All Our Lives?

The younger olsen sister, Elizabeth (Lizzie, inspiration for Elizabeth and James) is featured in this video that came up on youtube. Have no idea how it really matters, except I keep wondering when she's going to surface and take her place in the olsenverse.