Holy Toledo

July 28, 2009  //  Posted by: Content Keyword RSS  //  Category: Main Content
Was Heathcliff — the wild child of Wuthering Heights — a 19th-century emo boy? Can you picture Jane Austen’s Lizzy Bennet as a Regency gossip girl, and Darcy as her Mr. Big in knee breeches? And what about Hester Prynne — was she Nathaniel Hawthorne’sa idea of a Colonial yummy mummy? On Aug. 25, to coordinate with New York’s Fashion Week, Penguin Classics will unveil three paperback hits from youthquakes past, updated with stylish new covers by Ruben Toledo. (If you read DailyCandy.com, you’ll

‘Gossip Girl’ Taylor Momsen’s Hair-Raising Don’t

October 28, 2008  //  Posted by: Content Keyword RSS  //  Category: Main Content
Up until last night, the character with the worst hair on Gossip Girl was Jessica Szohr as Vanessa, hands down. Szohr was so cute on ABC's What About Brian that we had no trouble believing a guy would dump Stacy Keibler for her. Then she shows up as 'Nessa From the Block in Manhattan with a head full of frizzy home-perm curls and a fake-and-bake tan and all we want to do is knock her down and shave it all off a la her book counterpart. Still, that in no way compares to Taylor Momsen's Jenny H