Oh I think both Interview Germany and Interview Russia, when it comes to covers exclusively, always manage to be more.. daring, probably by accident as they can't get the same overexposed faces with overhyped careers that Interview features every month, but I still enjoy the 'take it easy' approach to creativity, especially when comparing it to Interview, which fluctuates between crazy saturation and the 'oh such a natural beauty' cover.
In general though, I have to agree and I don't think this is only something Interview Germany suffers from, but most German magazines, and 032c is probably an even better example than this. You can see traces of some high bar set up for these publications, beyond fashion, and disorientation when they do have to bring it to fashion levels, it's almost routine to find a German fashion magazine featuring complex topics and attempts to branch out and discuss art, but the actual fashion content, the layout and productions, they can be so mediocre and devoid of any substance, almost as if the people working there couldn't wait to get the hell out of the fashion industry, or as if they didn't care at all. I'm torn on whether that's a good thing or not, I think having loose standards can be quite liberating and makes things more adventurous, but if you put it next to the impeccable appearance of British, Japanese, French magazines with an audience waiting to devour their pages, it comes off as odd and uninteresting. Am I rambling here? (sorry

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