[2][3] She worked for The Village Voice for thirty years and was known for her fashion column "Elements of Style" which was renamed "Frock Star" in 2007.

[5][6] 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.

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.

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.

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.