Harper's Bazaar June 2007 : Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie by Peter Lindbergh

[Thefrenchy]

Well as a nicole fan I'm so happy shes on the cover and I think she looks great BUT the girls on Bazaar ? Hmm ... As i said in another thread, its funny how fashion magazines are now celebrity magazines ..

But i wont blame the girls for being on the cover. They were asked for it, they said yes. Everybody could have done the same choice. ^^

 

[scblonndie]

Oh, disgusting.

 

[shopping247]

glad my subscription ran out and i didn't renew. this is a crappy cover!

 

[Joseph26]

As i said in another thread, its funny how fashion magazines are now celebrity magazines ..

aren't they wearing fashion? how are the pics then?

 

[liberty33r1b]

I do have a subscription, but i never receive any issues! Anyone else having the same problem (in Europe)? i'm STILL waiting for the april issue to arrive, ditto for the may issue.....sooo annoying!!

 

[tigerrouge]

I still maintain this is a smarter cover choice than it initially seems - talking at fashist, I said that[FONT=verdana, helvetica, arial][SIZE=-1] all Bazaar has done, is try to maximise its buying audience. Like the editor of Vanity Fair once said, sometimes you have to use a tacky, populist cover to entice people to buy the magazine, but once they've bought it, you can hit them with better content inside.
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Which is why I feel the Melania Trump cover of US Vogue is an example of a worse cover crime than this one. Melania might be beautiful, but her husband is the true focus, not her, so his surname earned her that cover, not her sense of style or her career achievements or her ability to overcome scandals. She herself isn't that relevant to the fashion here-and-now and she didn't excite much interest as a model in the past - I imagine more people bought that issue because of the sight of a wedding dress, and not the woman who was wearing it. So it was a nice, inoffensive, gentle cover - but that doesn't get the blood going.

Whereas Paris & Nicole are very much part of everyday culture, on their own terms, even if you can't stand the sight of them. They don't even need their own surnames anymore.

In short - better a cover that makes you feel outraged, than a cover that says nothing to you at all. Better a cover that makes you shout "WHY, GOD, WHY!" than one that makes you shrug and say "whatever..."

 

[Mirik]

http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2007&mon=05&evt=paris-nicole-june-2007&pic=paris-nicole-harpers-bazaar-04.jpg

 

[Choisir]

surprise surprise

4 pages of TFSers trashing a magazine for attempting to....*shocker* sell copies

good for them

 

[Lacroix]

^ Erm, arent the 4 pages also from regualar readers saying they won't buy this issue? How can they be successful in selling copies if theyre deterring their regular readers??

 

[tigerrouge]

But we're in the minority. We're a group of sensitive, immensely-aware magazine mentalists who would happily convert an entire room into some sort of library to house our precious collections. The rest of the world buys magazines, flicks through them in a half-hearted way, and then throws them out at the end of the week. We're highly educated about all aspects of a magazine - but we're not the mass market, so our standards don't really count.

It's a cruel irony, I know.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

^^Haha so True!

 

[tigerrouge]

I yearn to see Bazaar produce covers that reflect the decent editorials they have, but I know that's never going to happen, so I try to be positive about the covers they do produce.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

^^Thats great but i have problems with that i mean with the covers they produce its hard to stay positive,but i should try better.

 

[Joseph26]

The rest of the world buys magazines, flicks through them in a half-hearted way, and then throws them out at the end of the week. We're highly educated about all aspects of a magazine - but we're not the mass market, so our standards don't really count.

exactly! karma!

 

[BaroqueRockstar]

their faces look so weird and red
and nicole's nose looks huge. it isn't usually that big is it?

 

[kissmesweet]

Ewww. THey look terrible & what a terrible choice. I can't believe that I'll be getting this delivered in my mailbox soon.
I might just have to rip the whole cover.

 

[alix*]

Why did the use the ugly image as the cover??

I mean they both are.. but Nicole looks weird in the cover.

 

[masquerade]

I thought i was looking at US Weekly for a minute

 

[iluvjeisa]

But we're in the minority. We're a group of sensitive, immensely-aware magazine mentalists who would happily convert an entire room into some sort of library to house our precious collections. The rest of the world buys magazines, flicks through them in a half-hearted way, and then throws them out at the end of the week. We're highly educated about all aspects of a magazine - but we're not the mass market, so our standards don't really count.

It's a cruel irony, I know.

What I will never understand is why the people running the mags have very little interest in making them the masterpieces of years past. Why is it suddenly so important that every gossip-hungry person looking for something to read at the loo reads their magazine?

My only explanation is that the people in charge of the magazine (not necessarily the editor in chief as much as the person actually in charge of the purse strings) has little interest in art, or even more likely, perceives fashion photography as an all too trite art form. The latter is, IMO, a sad mistake since it was one of the greatest art forms of the 20th century. These people simply can't socialize with their peers holding their heads high if they can't brag about their profits and revenues....it doesn't bother them at all that they have to put filth on their covers to achieve that result. And not just filth, mind you, but ugly, boring, overmedicated, depressing and semi-******** filth. Oh, and lets not forget the mind numbing predictability either. Check.

 

[Thefrenchy]

Better Version Of The Cover

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