Vanessa Friedman on Fashion Criticism; Lena Dunham's Memoir

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Local
Excerpt from Lena Dunham's book covers NYC childhood [New Yorker]
The real cost of a day at Coney Island [The Billfold]
These Brooklyn record stores are still going strong [Brooklyn Paper]

National
NYT's Vanessa Friedman on why fashion criticism isn't dead [Racked]
Are we losing interest in fashion bloggers? [FT]
Hard Candy reintroducing top polish shades from its '90s heyday [Yahoo]
The FW14 campaigns do not score well in model diversity [TFS]
Iggy Azalea teaming up with Steve Madden for a shoe collection [Page Six]