{"id":124449,"date":"2025-10-15T21:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124449\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T21:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:07:12","slug":"from-workhorse-to-all-the-cool-girls-get-fired-a-night-of-book-parties-for-fashions-favorite-editors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124449\/","title":{"rendered":"From “Workhorse” to “All The Cool Girls Get Fired”: A Night of Book Parties for Fashion\u2019s Favorite Editors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Luke Mitchell, Evan HughesJulia D’Ambola\/BFA.com<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, high above Rockefeller Center, Laura Brown (formerly InStyle\u2019s editor in chief) and Kristina O\u2019Neill (formerly WSJ. Magazine\u2019s editor in chief) gathered longtime friends and colleagues on the Rockefeller Rooftop to f\u00eate their new book, All The Cool Girls Get Fired<\/a>. The 200-person guest list included Julianne Moore, Candace Bushnell, and Sophia Bush.<\/p>\n

Dressed by Veronica de Piante, Brown wore a chamois-hued corduroy two-piece, while O\u2019Neill opted for an all-black look with a sequined top\u2014their complementary ensembles a perfect reflection of their yin-and-yang dynamic. Friends since 2001, the pair met at a fashion show, later working together for eight years at Harper\u2019s Bazaar before taking the reins at their respective magazines.<\/p>\n

Their book was born from an infamous Instagram post the duo shared after both were dismissed from their editor-in-chief roles within fourteen months of each other. \u201cWe were greeted by an absolute deluge from women of all different stripes\u2014some we knew, some we didn\u2019t,\u201d Brown recalled. \u201cWe knew we\u2019d uncorked something that needed to be released\u2014women and the shame around job loss.\u201d Shortly thereafter, O\u2019Neill texted Brown mid-morning: This is a book.<\/p>\n

All The Cool Girls Get Fired examines resilience, reinvention, and the humor in professional setbacks, with interviews featuring Oprah Winfrey, Katie Couric, Lisa Kudrow, Carol Burnett, and Jamie Lee Curtis, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Mitchell, Evan HughesJulia D’Ambola\/BFA.com Meanwhile, high above Rockefeller Center, Laura Brown (formerly InStyle\u2019s editor in chief) and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[359,18,117,19,17,50559],"class_list":{"0":"post-124449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-vogue-parties"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}