What Magazines Have You Bought/Received Recently?

[metal-on-metal]

Originally posted by faust@Oct 31 2004, 09:58 PM
I wish you could get refunds on magazines.

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That bad, huh? Haven't seen that issue yet but it didn't seem that horrible from the website.

 

[faust]

Originally posted by metal-on-metal@Oct 31 2004, 11:31 PM
That bad, huh? Haven't seen that issue yet but it didn't seem that horrible from the website.

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Yea. I never gave it another look, and I usually do if I like the magazine.

 

[Jennika]

I don't like the Naomi Watts cover of In Style. Her face looks too shadowed

 

[Carsten]

Josie Maran

 

[kimair]

I just got the December Marie Claire...the cover is Salma Hayek in DKNY.

eds:
From Russia with Love by Neil Kirk. Vicky Andren in brocade, beading and fur trims.

The New Dress Code by Chris Floyd. Amanda Hearst, Petrina and Michaela in holiday dresses.

Also: 101 ideas is all about holiday dressing, along with 36 best party dresses under $100

new ad worth mentioning: Sarah Jessica Parker for Gap on back cover in their new winter collection.

 

[downs]

Vogue US Nov

I like Jennifer she is good movie actress

 

[downs]

Recently Mag More~ More~~~

Gorgeous~!!

Sexy Mexico man Gael

Mary-Kate style is always gorgeous

Asia is really amorous

 

[downs]

instyle UK Dec

 

[downs]

cosmo girl uk nov

 

[LibertyRose]

Originally posted by downs@Nov 2 2004, 12:22 PM
Vogue US Nov

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Much has been said about Nov's US Vogue, and it's my time to chip in my $0.02...

Despite the imperfections in otherwise well-styled editorials (Natalia's silly expression, Daria's lion's mane), Nov US Vogue is a winner. Craig McDean's cover of Jennifer Connelly is the best of the year, surpassing even the classic-Testino Charlize Theron October cover. It is sedate, elegant, and fits an 'intelligent' actress like Connelly well. Connelly is not known for her fashion maverickism, so it is interesting to see her styled the Vogue way. I am glad to see her wear Luisa and Monique Lhuiller, two designers of new-age femininity who were not regular Vogue contributors. And Connelly's profile is stunning in that acid-green Dolce & Gabbana dress.

But what made this issue the most worthwhile is the journalism on bargain shopping. Bargain shopping has been made fashionable by Target and its associate designerse, but the landscape of mass-market brand is really changing this season, with material girl Sarah Jessica Parker (in her best Carrie Bradshaw impersonation) fronting the Gap campaign and uber-snob Karl Lagerfeld designing for H&M. Suddenly, bargain shopping is not merely a guilty pleasure, it is a way to breathe new air into expensive designer wardrobe. Before, looking head-to-toe in one designer is a fashion faux pas. But now, even incorporating various designer items in an outfit seems like an dated idea. You gotta 'personalize' your style with things that your socialite girlfriends have not seen in upscale boutiques, and the way to do that is to shop at Gap/H&M/Zara/Target.

I am delighted that Vogue picked up on this trend and mounted such a concerted effort to raise awareness on bargain shopping. Clothing-wise, it interviewed designers at Gap and Express, which have refined their fashion edge (and won personal approval from me) with new tweed bags and "Editor Pants." Drugstore makeup/skincare also got the attention they deserve, even though I think Vogue's insistence on looking polished while bargain shopping is strange (touting a Hermes croc Kelly at Target?? I don't think so).

Finally, three style muses/designers (including the fabulously fashionable Karolina Kurkova) discuss their philosophy on thrift-store hunting. I find these really useful:

#1: Dress against type. If you have a very conservative physical appearance, don't always choose conservative wardrobe, otherwise it only reinforces your boring image. If you are all-American blonde, don't be too preppy, or you risk looking like a girl who only cares about looking good.

#2: Be adventurous and stay away from basic pieces when bargain shopping. When the pieces are basic, the lack of quality is all too evident. Instead, feel free to purchase something different, odd, and of-the-moment, knowing that you won't regret throwing the garment out after a few wears. You can even use bargain shopping as a way to test your acceptance of a new trend. The PR of J. Mendel said that she wanted to participate in this fall's trend of fur stole but was not sure if it would be worth the investment. So she first bought a $75 vintage stole and liked it so much that she eventually upgraded to a sable cape from J. Mendel. Similarly, she bought Nine West roundtoe pumps before putting down $800 for Marc Jacobs' version. This past summer, she wanted to try the combo of cropped cargo with stilettos but ended up hating the look. Fortunately, she only bought the pants from Guess and when she realized the look was not for her, she did not have to make the expensive mistake of buying the $500 version from Chloe.

#3: Don't buy the aetheticized version of utilitarian items. That is, get your China slippers from China town, not from Manolo; tanks from Jockey, not Juicy.

I am impressed with the quality of journalism so much (for a Nov issue, no less) that I can forgive Vogue for proclaiming Jessica Simpson as the next Sarah Jessica Parker (even though both fail to appeal to me, SJP at least took creative risks but Jess Simpson is just an overmanufactured, pile-the-latest-trends-on label wh*re) and Kate Bosworth America's next sweetheart. On the other hand, dry-witted Bazaar is still trying to convince European socialites who have near-zero visibility in the US to write about French and Italian styles.

 

[LibertyRose]

Natalia Vodianova for W in Dolce & Gabbana.
This is the fourth time that W put a model on cover this year (Gisele Bundchen for Jan, Gemma Ward for Apr, Elise Crombez for Oct, and now Natalia Vodianova).
J Lo wore the same dress (see attachment).

But there actually is not a lot of fashion in it. There is a portfolio of wives of past Presidents, and a long-haired unknown model one of the few dresses which have not made an editorial appearance yet. Strange, with a new crop of models (Cameron, Nataliya, Anne-Marie) coming up, W picked the unknown.

 

[LibertyRose]

Story starts:
Analysis: A year in Vogue: the story behind the gloss; Alexandra Shulman
Independent 09-27-2004

NOVEMBER 2003

COVER STAR: Elizabeth Hurley

PHOTOGRAPHER: Mario Testino

SALE: 202,028 YEAR-ON-YEAR: down 1%

STORY: This coincided with the Fashion Rocks event that Nicholas Coleridge, my managing director, was organising. I decided it would be nice for Vogue to reflect that. Elizabeth Hurley was the compere of it, but we wanted to dress her in a slightlyrock-chic style, rather than in a ball gown, so she's wearing a rock'n'roll outfit by Armani. It pleased Armani; it pleased Elizabeth Hurley; and it pleased me as it came off as a coherent idea.

Editor's verdict: Because November is a difficult sales month, a pleasant surprise.

DECEMBER 2003

COVER STAR: Kylie Minogue

PHOTOGRAPHER: Nick Knight

SALE: 201,629 YEAR-ON-YEAR: up 14%

STORY: This magazine came with a Christmas-present supplement, which proved very popular. Kylie in a champagne glass - it's one of my favourite covers of the year. The concept was by Nick Knight and Robin Derrick. We had put Kylie on the cover a year ortwo previously, just as she was making her comeback. It did very badly, because no one was ready for it. This cover was celebratory. Kylie is pop, but there's a bit of fashion about her.

Editor's verdict: Sales were 14 per cent up year-on-year, so I was very pleased with that.

JANUARY 2004

COVER STAR: Natalia Vodianova

PHOTOGRAPHER: Tesh

SALE: 191,802 YEAR-ON-YEAR: up 2%

STORY: January is a totally unpredictable issue. Sometimes it does well, sometimes it doesn't. My favourite was the cover with all the British models dressed in Union flags that we did after 11 September. It was a fantastic cover, but it did so badly.With this one, we decided to do a "What's New in 2004" theme. I wanted to use a dress by Jonathan Saunders. I don't always have such a specific idea, but I had been to his successful show in September.

Editor's verdict: For quite a stark cover, I thought it performed well.

FEBRUARY 2004

COVER STAR: Cate Blanchett

PHOTOGRAPHER: Tesh

SALE: 220,745 YEAR-ON-YEAR: up 2%

STORY: We tried to tie this in with the release of The Missing, but the date was put back. Cate Blanchett is beautiful and I'm a huge fan of her acting. February has a catwalk report and is one of our strongest -selling months. If an actress is in amovie that's doing well, we'll get sales. Get an actress at the wrong time, and it won't necessarily sell. With this one, the film just didn't happen - when you work two or three months in advance, that can happen.

Editor's verdict: I was slightly disappointed. I thought she'd sell better than she did.

MARCH 2004

COVER STAR: Natalia Vodianova

PHOTOGRAPHER: Mario Testino

SALE: 223,054 YEAR-ON-YEAR: no change

STORY: I wanted something soft to match the cover line. Vodianova is in this pink, drapy Valentino dress. A lot of people buy the March issue to see the international collections, which also come out in September. This particular month, Harpers & Queencopied the shoe supplement that we had done the previous October - an unoriginal but very deliberate attempt to target the fashion readership.

Editor's verdict: A lot of magazines were adding giveaways to their covers, so I was surprised at the sales we got.

APRIL 2004

COVER STAR: Lily Cole & Gemma Ward

PHOTOGRAPHER: Nick Knight

SALE: 192,699 YEAR-ON-YEAR: down 16%

STORY: This wasn't shot as a cover but as part of a story inside. We had actually shot a Mother's Day cover, featuring Angela Lindvall and Liya Kebede with their children. I had the picture on the wall in the office and kept getting a negative reactionto it. I realised I was making a wrong call. It wasn't gregarious or fashiony enough, so I thought, let's try the Nick Knight picture. But I did feel terrible, because the models had brought their children.

Editor's verdict: So many people said, "It's such an amazing cover". But did it sell? No.

MAY 2004

COVER STAR: Scarlett Johansson

PHOTOGRAPHER: Corinne Day

SALE: 214,288 YEAR-ON-YEAR: 33% up

STORY: I love this cover. I went to see Lost in Translation and I just fell in love with Scarlett Johansson. The next day, I said, "I want her on our next cover". I thought she was the perfect girl, and I didn't want to lose the quality that she had inthe film. I wanted Corinne Day to shoot her because I admire the way she doesn't over-glamorise girls. But when the image came in, she had over retouched it, so we sent it back to get her to put back some of Johansson's humanity.

Editor's verdict: Everyone loved it - it's a crowd-pleaser.

JUNE 2004

COVER STAR: Giselle Bundchen

PHOTOGRAPHER: Carter Smith

SALE: 198,669 YEAR-ON-YEAR: 6% down

STORY: When I first saw this image, I didn't like it. I thought that it was too coy, and I wasn't keen on how exposed the dress was. But when we put it on the cover, it did kind of work because it is a beachy, summery issue. The picture was part of afashion shoot but was taken with the idea that it might make a good cover. This issue of Vogue came with a beauty supplement, but I don't think it was as strong as the one we had done the previous year.

Editor's verdict: I was a bit disappointed in this one.

JULY 2004

COVER STAR: Keira Knightley

PHOTOGRAPHER: Tesh

SALE: 199,494 YEAR-ON-YEAR: 5% up

STORY: We spelt Keira Knightley's name wrong, so that wasn't great, but it worked well. I didn't want her to look too young. She has a Fifties feel about her in this picture. We weren't sure whether this was going to work as a cover. I didn't feel like Idid about Scarlett Johansson. Knightley was in that rubbish film King Arthur, but she was the beautiful girl of the moment. I think that Vogue should always reflect the people who are in the style arena at the time.

Editor's verdict: This one did surprisingly well.

AUGUST 2004

COVER STAR: Carolyn Murphy PHOTOGRAPHER: Mario Testino

SALE: 215,486 YEAR-ON-YEAR: 2% up

STORY: We are back into the new season in August. Carolyn Murphy was a waif model in the Nineties. She doesn't do a lot of editorial work, but she's lovely looking and elegant - I thought it would be nice to have someone sophisticated at this point.August is a big issue for us, and has the catwalk supplement, which is increasingly important to the industry because clothes are going into stores earlier and earlier.

Editor's verdict: I felt that it was a very classic Vogue cover, and would have liked it to have sold more than it did.

SEPTEMBER 2004

COVER STAR: Kate Moss

PHOTOGRAPHER: Nick Knight

SALE: 223,230 (est) YEAR-ON-YEAR: 4% down (est)

STORY: This exotic, slightly decadent look was a strong trend. We hadn't had Kate Moss on the cover for a while (she'd cancelled a couple of shoots, I don't know why). So we booked Kate and Nick Knight. I wanted the dress to be from the Yves SaintLaurent collection that Tom Ford designed. To make it look even richer, we added gold, which has cost implications. It's very luxurious. I wanted readers to think, "I have something very different from Elle or Marie Claire".

Editor's verdict: It's very sumptuous, very Vogue.

OCTOBER 2004

COVER STAR: Elle MacPherson

PHOTOGRAPHER: Mario Testino

SALE: N/A YEAR-ON-YEAR: N/A

STORY: I had met Elle and we had talked about her underwear range. I was impressed with how evangelical she was, and how incredible she looked. Vogue had never put her on the cover - she's more of an Elle girl, and you are either one or the other. Thereason I put her on the cover is that she is living in England now, and she has this incredible range, plus she's 40 and looks unbelievable.

Editor's verdict: I will be disappointed if it does not do well. It has all the ingredients.

My verdict:

Elizebeth Hurley cover was unimpressive (why de-glam a bombshell?) and I felt the editors were manipulated by Armani to put out this PR issue for him (Ashley Judd and Jodie Foster were enlisted for a photo shoot). Despite his long-standing success and ambition to expand in China, Armani is as creatively irrelevant as ever.

Kylie Minogue champagne-glass cover concept worked, and bonus points for featuring the It item of the season, Stella McCartney's mauve satin corset top. The editors created a style bible for last Christmass: eye-popping jeweled toned dresses (many of which designed by new Brits who have yet to achieve international fame) modelled by a curvaeous unknown (ph: Nick Knight) and Amanda Moore, and Elise Crombez is a Midnight Angela in drapey silver gowns through Testino's lense.

Natalia Vodianova looks frightened. Yes, it is a stark cover. But I like the Tetyana Brahzyk "Cold Play" makeup ed, and Karolina Kurkova fans will delight in her desert goddess-y images inside.

Cate Blanchett was made to look icy, but her unflattering nose ruined it. I do however love the Daria Werbowy bored-sophisticate editorial to pieces.

 

[LibertyRose]

Was this really Valentino? I remember the credits read Givenchy. Anyway, Vogue UK missed the opportunity to make a statement with pieces from a truly singular collection.

Gemma Ward enjoys ascent on both sides of the Atlantic as she also scores an unexpected W cover in the US in the same month. But this issue was horrible. I bought it only because of the Jacquetta Wheeler editorial (ph: Arthur Elgort). UK Vogue attempted to add more juice to the issue by publishing the behind-the-scene interactions among Nick Knight, the fashion editor, and the models (Gemma, Polina, Tiiu, and Lily Cole), but it still was one of the two worst issues of the year.

Scarlett Johansson in glittery Dolce & Gabbana is breathtaking. I would have bought the magazine based on the cover alone. Thank god she looked nothing like her punked-up Christina Aguilera/Gwen Stefani immitation that she normally was. Kudos to the stylist! She also looks pure and enticing on the cover of US Elle in Prada's ubitouquos brown villagy dress. You will also get to see two of the best edits UK Vogue has produced all year: Elise as a soulful after-school dancer draped in sequins and Julia Stegner in crisp white ensembles lensed by Patrick Demarchelier.

Dolce & Gabbana continues their PR frenzy with the Gisele Bundchen cover. I like the editorial inside but agree that this is not a particularly strong cover. The air-brushing took nearly all of Gisele's ferocity away.

There is nothing wrong about putting Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley on the cover, almost back to back. But it was odd to dress Keira in lesser-known demure British designers; she looks much older. And the cover was amateurish.

 

[LibertyRose]

Horrendous choice, to put Carolyn Murphy on the cover. Even Testino can't save her. But the cover actually has nothing to do with the theme of the issue. It turned out to be a lovely magazine, with a stunning Natasha V story by Karen Collins.

Kate Moss in Tom Ford for YSL's cheongsam (Nicole Kidman wore the same dress at an event in April). This is another fantastic cover. The editorials (Daria, Angela Lindvall) are nice, but not especially distinguished.

Elle McPherson in Roberto Cavalli (ph: Mario Testino). Another bad issue that I bought only because of an Jacquetta Wheeler edit, also by Testino.

 

[kimair]

Hana on November Russian Vogue

 

[Tarden]

I love the W ed of Ruslana with the long brown hair

 

[purplelucrezia]

Originally posted by LibertyRose@Nov 2 2004, 09:35 PM
There is a portfolio of wives of past Presidents, and a long-haired unknown model one of the few dresses which have not made an editorial appearance yet. Strange, with a new crop of models (Cameron, Nataliya, Anne-Marie) coming up, W picked the unknown.

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I went magazine shopping today and did look through this edition. Sort of a strange choice of subject, if you ask me. I didn't buy it...

Instead, I ended up with the October issue of I.D. magazine. Which I got although this coming month will mean be a bunch of new choices on the racks. It was honestly because of the editorials with J.P. and a model who I suspect might be Anna Nocon.

 

[faust]

Originally posted by purplelucrezia@Nov 3 2004, 02:32 PM
I went magazine shopping today and did look through this edition. Sort of a strange choice of subject, if you ask me. I didn't buy it...

Instead, I ended up with the October issue of I.D. magazine. Which I got although this coming month will mean be a bunch of new choices on the racks. It was honestly because of the editorials with J.P. and a model who I suspect might be Anna Nocon.

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good choice, loved that issue.

 

[kimair]

Originally posted by LibertyRose@Nov 2 2004, 09:26 PM
But what made this issue the most worthwhile is the journalism on bargain shopping. Bargain shopping has been made fashionable by Target and its associate designerse, but the landscape of mass-market brand is really changing this season, with material girl Sarah Jessica Parker (in her best Carrie Bradshaw impersonation) fronting the Gap campaign and uber-snob Karl Lagerfeld designing for H&M. Suddenly, bargain shopping is not merely a guilty pleasure, it is a way to breathe new air into expensive designer wardrobe. Before, looking head-to-toe in one designer is a fashion faux pas. But now, even incorporating various designer items in an outfit seems like an dated idea. You gotta 'personalize' your style with things that your socialite girlfriends have not seen in upscale boutiques, and the way to do that is to shop at Gap/H&M/Zara/Target.

I am delighted that Vogue picked up on this trend and mounted such a concerted effort to raise awareness on bargain shopping. Clothing-wise, it interviewed designers at Gap and Express, which have refined their fashion edge (and won personal approval from me) with new tweed bags and "Editor Pants." Drugstore makeup/skincare also got the attention they deserve, even though I think Vogue's insistence on looking polished while bargain shopping is strange (touting a Hermes croc Kelly at Target?? I don't think so).

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To me, it seems that Vogue is a bit late jumping on this bandwagon. Bazaar isn't exactly high journalism, but they have pushed this for a while now. And they've featured people like Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford, Courtney Cox Arquette, etc. on their shopping habits. Plus they have had features with top stylists and makeup artists (like Andrea Lieberman, who does Gwen Stefani, Rachel Zoe Rosenweig and Gucci Westman) on their tips and tricks, which include scouring thrift stores and places like Target, the mall and drugstores.

 

[model_mom]

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