
L to R: Sam Amidon and Shahzad Ismaily at the Bedroom Community compound in Reyjkavik
Photo by Andrew Parks
It’s been a while since we last issued a Buy It, Burn It, Skip It column—eight months to be exact, mostly because our associate editor (Aaron Richter) was busy relocating to our art department. Lame excuses aside, we couldn’t remain silent any longer; not with this blatant rip-off happening every week at Vanity Fair.
To be clear, Aaron came up with the Buy/Burn/Skip rating system while he was at Giant magazine, and we started filing our version of it a couple months before Graydon and his gray-haired minions “coincidentally” starting doing the same thing, albeit with one word change. So, yeah: Conde Nast, we’re watching you…
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