Fashion Salad

Style Sherlocks sniff out clues.

In this week’s New York magazine, on newsstands today, assistant editor Emma Rosenblum investigates the identity of the anonymous fashionista who’s been blogging as “View From the Fourth Row”. The blogger’s sniping tone—she maintains that Vogue’s Anna Wintour has “the worst shoe taste,” likens Harper’s Bazaar editor Glenda Bailey to an “oompa-loompa,” and keeps a running tally of which editors are “victim/poseurs” (including W’s Alex White)—has caused a certain amount of consternation in that clubby world as well as a lot of finger-pointing as to whom she really is.

The latest top suspect, according to these style sleuths, is Cosmopolitan’s fashion director, Michelle McCool, who also has a Cosmo-sanctioned blog called Fun Fearless Fashion (which went up in September, about a month after Fourth Row’s debut). She emphatically denies it.

The full item is available online at: http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/29456/.