| MAGGIE COUGHLAN, SENIOR EDITOR |
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What hath Megan Thee Stallion wrought? The rapper popularized the term "hot girl summer"—and since her song "Hot Girl Summer" dropped in August 2019, American culture has been inundated with seasons, activities, and meal configurations deemed the provenance of hot girls. Perhaps we should have guessed this relentless trend would eventually trickle down into politics—but as Olivia Empson notes in a new story today, New York's mayoral election has co-opted it in a surprising way. Sure, there's a group of young, enthusiastic Mamdani supporters who call themselves Hot Girls for Zohran. But there's also an opposing Hot Girls for Cuomo movement—albeit one that may actually involve only a single girl. |
The hot girls of New York are fighting—but not over the Corner Store wait list, Sandy Liang sample sale, or the age-old question of Manhattan or Brooklyn. Their new battleground is the city's mayoral race and two of its candidates: Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo. |
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| If you've wandered through Chinatown, Bed-Stuy, or any New York City neighborhood on a recent weekend and seen a sea of young people clad in Salomons, cargos, and electric blue T-shirts, then you've witnessed one of his canvassing events. The shirts say "Hot Girls for Zohran," they're a steady downtown staple, and celebrities including Emily Ratajkowski, Reneé Rapp, and Hasan Piker have all worn one, according to the grassroots group behind them. Independent from Mamdani's official campaign, Hot Girls for Zohran has created a momentum so scintillating it's reshaped the race itself, even inspiring a Hot Girls for Cuomo movement on the other side.
Speaking from her hotel room in Tel Aviv, Emily Austin—the "hot girl" behind Hot Girls for Cuomo—tells VF's Olivia Empson she'd "prefer" a Republican, but Cuomo "never had this persona of just being a guy." |
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The Texas attorney general—whose wife divorced him on "biblical grounds"—is suing the manufacturer of the drug and claiming, without evidence, that taking Tylenol during pregnancy can cause autism. |
VF's new podcast, Tough Cookie: The Wally "Famous" Amos Story, tells the story of a Black pop-culture icon, through his many booms and busts, from the perspective of his daughter, host Sarah Amos. | |
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Flamboyant retailing heir Gene Pressman's plan to create an achingly chic empire that would stretch from Madison Avenue to Wilshire Boulevard wreaked havoc on the family business—and on the family as well: "Holly Pressman called her in-laws 'the most dysfunctional family I've ever seen.'"
From the May 1996 issue, Jennet Conant details the Barneys dynasty. |
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