US Harper’s Bazaar October 2024 : Jennie by Zoë Ghertner

[tigerrouge]

My library's digital copy is showing 158 pages, so after September issues, we're sliding back towards the skinny pamphlet phase of the fashion magazine cycle, although this issue still has a healthy amount of actual fashion campaigns, which is a good sign on that side of things.

While the cover story does not appeal to me - I'm not at a place in life where musical preference forms a guiding part of my identity - I do appreciate that the rest of the editorial content is not Vogue's ctrl-c ctrl-v serve-the-same-thing-five-times-over. That alone means it's a cut above Conde Nast.

 

[jeremydante]

Cover doesn't feel like a rebirth to me. I think it's annoying when pop groups disband and then all the members are competitors of each other. The cover is flat and doesn't push the envelope enough with something new to qualify as a rebirth. And I will say, all that is available through glam, hair and styling- you really need to push to sell that rebirth contract. Doing the wet look with hair gel just ain't gonna cut it. We've seen way more innovation between 1998-2002. So, let's lift it.

 

[Xone]

everything looks so dry....

 

[KoV]

My library's digital copy is showing 158 pages, so after September issues, we're sliding back towards the skinny pamphlet phase of the fashion magazine cycle, although this issue still has a healthy amount of actual fashion campaigns, which is a good sign on that side of things.

My print copy is 140 pages, interesting that the digital has 18 additional pages. Even 140 feels larger than many issues of the past few years, which barely hit 100.

 

[tigerrouge]

Whenever the page counts differ, my thought is that the digital version is counting every page of a fold-out advert into the run of pages, whereas the print version wouldn't.