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Hello Kitty for Dior
Daniel Saynt, Editor-In-Chief April 21 at 12:34
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Sometimes fashion is a little bit too ridiculous, even for my tastes.
Hello Kitty, that Japanese import that has more of an effect on our society than Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald combined, will be the new face of John Galliano for Dior. The Kitty will be posing in the new collection in the May issue of Japanese Vogue . I would be completely destroyed by this news if it wasn’t for the fact that The Simpsons recently sold their souls to the gods of fashion in Harpers last year to celebrate their new movie release.
What’s so strange is that this is the first time that a large fashion house has used a cartoon character to model their entire collection. You would think the group would choose a more iconic character like the Mouse or Bugs Bunny or something. Guess this makes some room for Fifi Lapin to hop her way onto some covers in the near future?
Vogue Espana Celebrates 20 Years with Four Kate Moss Covers
Daniel Saynt, Editor-In-Chief April 21 at 12:01
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Agyness Deyn isn’t the only model with multiple covers for one magazine this season (i-D mag shot her for 7 covers), Vogue Espana decided to celebrate it’s 20th year of offering chica’s fashion advice with four distinct covers featuring the last supermodel, Kate Moss. Nick Knight played his role in the shoot using stars as an overall theme for the covers. Moss was caught wearing a Chanel star print jump suit and a Yves Saint Laurent white satin star print dress.
I wonder if Kate Moss is pissed she only got four covers to Aggy’s seven?
It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. It’s SuperCoco
Daniel Saynt, Editor-In-Chief April 16 at 9:01
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The Superhero exhibit at the MET will be opening soon and too celebrate Vogue shot the very marvelous Coco Rocha as a number of very fashionable defenders of peace, justice and the American way. What’s best about the shoot is how well the designers existing collections represent the superhuman form. Guess supermodel is more than just a term that no longer describes Janice Dickenson. Check out the inspirations and realizations below.
INSPIRATION
REALIZATION
Armani Prive’s shiny satin seems like a perfect duplicate for the Silver Surfer’s metalic skin.
More superhero fun after the jump.
Magazines Are Almost Dead. Like We Didn’t Know That One Already
Daniel Saynt, Editor-In-Chief April 2 at 1:12
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Anna Wintour and nebish new boss, Si Newhouse enjoy their bit of parody in the Observer. The Observer went on to craft four articles on the death of the glossy. Yes, we know it’s already a cliche subject, put you can’t deny that the little blogger is becoming tomorrows publisher. Hell our site already get’s more monthly readers than Paris Vogue and it’s only a matter of time before we grab Vogue’s throne…
Freelance Fizzle! The Decline and Fall of the Writer
BY DOREE SHAFRIR“There’s not one path anymore,” David Hirshey, executive editor of HarperCollins and former longtime deputy editor of Esquire magazine, said the other day. “Thirty years ago, you worked at a newspaper, you moved to a magazine, and then you wrote books or screenplays. Today you can be a blogger who writes books or you can be a stripper who wins an Academy Award for Best Screenplay.” MORE >
Where Will Magazines Be Ten Years From Now?
BY JOHN KOBLINIn the next five years in Graydon Carter’s world, you’ll walk onto a plane, or a subway, or a soon-to-be-invented mode of transport, and you’ll tuck a little electronic book under your arm. Inside that little book, which will be very expensive at first but soon will cost $150, there’ll be a series of mylar “pages,” and there will be small buttons off to the side, and once you hit one of them, whoooosh, words and photos from Vanity Fair will suddenly appear. MORE >
World’s Youngest Relic: Master of the New Old Journalism
BY MATT HABERIt’s still possible to practice the dying art of old-school magazine journalism. But if you love it, like David Samuels, it will probably break your heart. MORE >
What Makes Annie Shoot?
BY CHOIRE SICHAThe great Leibovitz realized she was never a journalist but made news with magazine covers. An artist who was once fascinated with her subjects lately seems largely fascinated with herself. MORE >
Illustration by Victor Juhasz
After the jump, Is Anne Lebowitz the real culprit in this Lebron/Vogue race mess?
You can’t deny how similar her photo looks to the “Army Enlistment” one we found and considering that Anne is the oldest photographer on the block, I’m sure she must remember when these babies hit the street back in pre-Civil War Kentucky (okay, I’m not sure how old Anne is or if she’s from Kentucky, but it seems to fit)…
The Lebron/Vogue Scandal – Ten Reasons Why Vogue Isn’t Racist
Daniel Saynt, Editor-In-Chief March 28 at 5:35
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So the Lebron James Vogue cover with Gisele Bundchen is finally getting the attention of traditional media. We wrote about it last week , saying that what really offended us was the shitty fashion on the cover, and now that we bloggers have been talking about it for a while, the rest of the media people seem to be caring, big surprise.
Anyways after hearing all the opinions and listening to person after person make comments about how “racist” Vogue is I heard one rational thought that made me reassess my opinion.
Would It Be Different If The Cover Featured A White Man Instead of Lebron James?
Suddenly, the voice of Martin Luther King entered my ears speaking words of a day when equality would bring forth truth and I quickly realized that this cover IS NOT RACIST AT ALL!!!
I know, a shocking thought that a media empire run by white folks could actually do something that wasn’t racist in nature is unheard of, but in this case I think Vogue was honestly not trying to offend.
To prove it we had our photoshopping experts reassess the cover and add the photo of a white person. And not just any white person, we used a photo of Stuff White People Like’s Christian Lander. Suddenly the cover isn’t so offensive, but instead a bit comical.
So in the future, when considering racism, we should all ask the question, “Would it still be offensive to white people if a white person was in it?”. Most of the time the answer will be no. Want more proof that Vogue isn’t on a racist trip check out our Ten Reasons Why Vogue Isn’t Racist list…
1. Black as night, Andre Leon Tally may be as fat as a Volkswagon Beetle but the dude still remains Numero 2 at image conscience Vogue. Affirmative action? No, the dude really knows what he’s doing and is one of the most respected names in fashion and at Conde Nast.
2. The whole black man/white woman scenario doesn’t fly when you consider the fact that Gisele is hispanical. That’s right kiddies, this cover is the best example of minority representation by the magazine, ever.
3. Lebron is a basketball player. He’s pictured for doing what he’s known for. What’s wrong with that?
4. If it was a white dude no one would freak out (as pictured above). Can we say double standard? I think we can.
5. No look of fear on Gisele’s face might imply she’s actually having fun. Gasp, whites (hispanicals) and blacks getting along!!! Not possible according to all the haters out there.
6. It’s the Shape Issue people. We need to see some muscle and what better way than showing some serious MUSCLE. Lebron looks like he can run through a wall in this photo and I think that’s the point. The image is of a strong, successful BLACK MAN!!! What’s so racist about that?
7. In fashion black is always in (can’t believe I just wrote that)
8. Comparing Lebron to King Kong is just offensive. I’m sure the people who said this are either a) really, secretly racist themselves since gorilla is the first thing that comes to mind when seeing a black man, b) black and ashamed of themselves, or c) really into monkey sex.
9. Notice how Lebron isn’t complaining. He was there, at the photoshot. I’m sure he had some choice in the photo that would be used. And if I was Lebron, I would choose the photo that made me seem most powerful, like the one Vogue used on the cover.
10. Vogue Men has featured three powerful black men in the past – Will Smith, Denzel Washington and Barack Obama. Shouldn’t that suggest that maybe, just maybe, Conde Nast does respect black men?
For those of you that still feel that Vogue is being racist, quit your bitching and take action. You don’t have to buy the magazine, you can demand that more African American’s make it on the cover, and you can bring about positive change. The civil rights leaders of the past didn’t change things by bitchin, they took action.
Just remember that when the day comes that Vogue does properly representing blacks on it’s cover (to me, they’ve already made positive steps) that it is your job as a people to drop your issues of Essence and Jet and get on the Vogue bandwagon. If you don’t, well, then you’re just haters.
Which reminds me, why isn’t anyone complaining about Essence and Jet and the dozens of other black centric magazines? Last time I checked Whites, Hispanicals, Asians, and just about every other race except for African-American’s haven’t gotten much cover play on those glossies?
It’s about time that everyone takes a chill pill, gets off their civil rights high horse, and make a decision that not everything “white” media dishes out is offensive to black people.
Of course there are some exceptions….
We Are Witness : Vogue Sells It’s Soul to the NBA
Daniel Saynt, Editor-In-Chief March 6 at 4:52
Read More:Anna Wintour, lebron james, vogue
The NY Post reported today that Miss Wintour spent the night courtside with at the Knicks game. No she wasn’t meeting with fellow devil boss, Isiah Thomas, she was courting the very bankable (also see over-exposed) Lebron James for an upcoming photo shoot with Giselle Bundchen. I’m sorry, did I miss something? While I have come to expect Vogue to compete with US Weekly on the regular by overdoing the celebrity thing a few times too many, I didn’t realize they we’re heading into Sports Illustrated territory just yet.
This is just another sign that Vogue has completely lost touch with it’s core values. I’m sure the issue will be filled with the type of advertisers that would be attracted to a big name like Lebron James (Nike, Escalade, Jacob the Jeweler), which will most likely garner Miss Wintour another great year end bonus, but do we really have to accept the Cavalier as a fashion icon?
Peroni & Vogue presents: 50 years of Italian Style
Daniel Saynt, Editor-In-Chief January 30 at 10:33
Read More:Musicians + Artists, vogue
Vogue Italia and Peroni Nastro Azzuro in Association wit Vogue and Men’s Vogue are pleased to celebrate the arrival of “50 Years of Italian Style”Photo ExhibitVogue Italia, the bible of international style and Peroni Nastro Azzurro, the premium Italian beer have joined forced to create a retrospective photographic exhibition–50 Years of Italian Style–an event that will feature fifty iconic images of Italian style, spanning five decades. This public exhibition features images that have appeared in Vogue Italia, Casa Vogue and L’Uomo Vogue and captures the enduring Italian essence as viewed by some of the world’s top photographers.
Who: Peroni and Vogue Present: 50 Years of Italian Style
What: Exhibition Viewing
When: Saturday, February 2nd thru Monday, February 4th, 2008
10am to 6pm (except Monday which will be 10am to 3pm)
Where: Twelve 21 (West 21st St. between 5th and 6th Ave.)
Why: To celebrate iconic Italian style!
