Charla Krupp
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Charla Krupp’s HOW NOT TO LOOK OLD, is America’s #1 best-
selling beauty bible, outselling every other fashion and beauty book
since its launch in 2008. The follow-up, HOW TO NEVER LOOK FAT
AGAIN: Over 1000 Ways to Dress Thinner Without Dieting, is also a
New York Times bestseller. Charla has spent a collective 22 weeks
on the New York Times Best Seller List.

She is currently a contributing editor to Time Inc’s successful spin-off,
People Style Watch.

Known for her accessible “real woman’s” approach to style, Charla
was a contributor to NBC’s Today show for ten years appearing in
over 130 style segments. She has been also seen on national shows
such as Oprah, CBS Early Show, Good Morning America, Dateline,
Rachel Ray, Wendy Williams, The View, Tyra, Entertainment Tonight,
Extra, Access Hollywood and many more.

An award-winning magazine journalist, Charla spent 15 years as the
entertainment editor for Glamour Magazine, where she created the

magazine’s “Women of the Year Awards.” She helped make Time
Inc.’s new style magazine, In Style a publishing phenomenon. She
returned to Glamour as beauty director, and later served as executive
editor of Hearst’s, Shop Etc. Charla wrote a monthly column for
More Magazine called “Fashion for Grown-Ups.” She has also
written for Time magazine, The New York Times, Town & Country,
Cosmopolitan, The Chicago Tribune, USA Today Weekend, etc.

Charla lives in Manhattan and Sagaponack, New York with her
husband, Richard Zoglin, Time Magazine’s theater critic and author
of COMEDY AT THE EDGE: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed
America.

Blog Entries by Charla Krupp

Shopping for My Mom: How Fashion Fails Real Women

Posted March 14, 2011 | 12:11:16 (EST)

In the 80s and 90s, there was a shop at Lexington Avenue and 66th Street called The Forgotten Woman. It was part of a national chain of about 30 stores dedicated to the larger-sized woman, with an impressive collection of evening wear. When the store went out of business in...

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Fashion Week, Also Known as Fashion's Suicide Mission

Posted February 19, 2010 | 14:50:58 (EST)

Another New York City fashion week - that semi-annual orgy of crotch-length minis, transparent tops, plunging necklines, skeletal teen models and faux congratulations all around. But for me, a follower of the fashion world for more than 20 years, the spectacle gets more depressing each season. Why? The fashion industry,...

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