Lynn Yaeger

Lynn Yaeger was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island, which she hated —"the only good thing about it is that it is fairly near NYC," she said.{{Cite web |title=Lynn Yaeger |url=https://www.vogue.com/contributor/lynn-yaeger |access-date=August 10, 2023 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}} She enrolled at Fordham University and initially studied sociology before switching to art history. She was fired from her job at the campus bookstore.{{Cite web |last=Goodman |first=Wendy |date=2022-05-03 |title=The Worst Career Advice Lynn Yaeger Ever Got Was 'Try to Look Normal' |url=https://www.curbed.com/2022/05/21-questions-lynn-yaeger-fashion-writer.html |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=Curbed |language=en}} She attended a graduate program at The New School in political economy.

As a graduate student, Yaeger used her student loan to buy six expensive French dresses. The splurge caused her to run out of money so she took a part-time job doing customer service for The Village Voice's advertising department. While she was there, she submitted pieces to the paper. Her second article caught the attention of Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown, who called The Village Voice and asked to buy the piece. Yaeger remained at The Village Voice for thirty years covering fashion, including fashion shows, until she was laid off on December 30, 2008. Shortly after her departure, New York magazine asked her to cover fashion shows.{{Cite web |date=2019-06-03 |title=The Business of Fashion |url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/people/lynn-yaeger/ |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=The Business of Fashion |language=en}} She later joined Vogue as a contributing editor to Vogue magazine and Vogue.com.

In 2008, Yaeger won first place in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' category of humor writing for newspapers with more than 100,000 circulation.http://www.columnists.com/awards/column-contest-winners/ Complete list of National Society of Newspaper Columnists' award winners In 2019 the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) awarded her the Media Award in Honor of Eugenia Sheppard.{{Cite web |title=CFDA |url=https://cfda.com/news/lynn-yaeger-on-reshaping-the-industry |access-date=August 10, 2023 |website=cfda.com}}

Lynn Yaeger lives in the West Village. She is known for her eccentric clothing style, dark cupid's-bow lipstick, and self-cut hair. She is a Japanophile and an avid collector of antiques and rare items, such as the original Raggedy Ann dolls.{{Cite web |date=2010-05-23 |title=Lynn Yaeger Opens Her Home, Reveals Collecting Obsession (PHOTOS) |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lynn-yaeger-opens-her-clo_b_508809 |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=HuffPost |language=en}} In an interview with PAPER magazine, fashion designer Marc Jacobs said that Yaeger was one of his muses{{Cite news |date=March 27, 2018 |title=Lynn Yaeger Is Keeping the Fashion Fantasy Alive |url=http://www.papermag.com/lynn-yaeger-fashion-fantasy-2553343033.html?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4 |access-date=July 2, 2018 |work=PAPER |language=en}} and her style has been noted to influenced other fashion designers including Undercover, Alexander Wang, and Chloé.{{Cite news |last1=Schneier |first1=Matthew |date=March 9, 2016 |title=Lynn Yaeger: Fashion Muse |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/fashion/lynn-yaeger-fashion-muse.html |access-date=July 2, 2018 |work=The New York Times |language=en}} Yaeger is friends with Michael Musto from the Village Voice, but said that she was "terrified" of him prior to becoming friends. She also described Mickey Boardman as "the most fun" who "never said a bad word about anyone." She describe Paper magazine as "kind of the bible of downtown cool" with editors "who were friendlier"; "it felt like they got me, especially Mickey."{{Cite news |date=April 12, 2021 |title=Friends Who Saw It All (Published 2021) |work=The New York Times |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/12/t-magazine/musto-yaeger-boardman-friends.html?referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR3LdbcrXSpxry1lupGtWb3QFqkV4nxj5aEc1Cq57LTzyHUFMW6HT0hmyG8 |access-date=August 10, 2023 |last1=Wogan |first1=John }}

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• Yaeger, Lynn. [http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-07-09/columns/orchard-street-how-the-other-half-lives/ "Orchard Street: How the Other Half Lives"], The Village Voice, July 7, 2008.
• Yaeger, Lynn. [http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-07-02/columns/lynn-yaeger-spends-the-weekend-in-paris/ "Lynn Yaeger Spends the Weekend in Paris"], The Village Voice, July 7, 2008.

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