Fashion Magazines on Shine

It’s 2009. Are Fashion Magazines Relevant Anymore?

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Lady mags got you down? If so, you’ve got something in common with notorious Daily Mail columnist Liz Jones. Ms. Jones, who recently caused a stir with her confessional forays into “ anorexia journalism ,” has recently moved on from eating disorders and is now focusing on a semi-related topic: fashion magazines, publications where she once thrived as a staffer, which she now calls “patronizing, fake and pointless.” So it seems I have something in common with Jones, too. I grew up loving fashion magazines and spent most of my career working for them...

User post: Has celebrity worship gone too far?

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<img src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/phugc/sXntJ_AhZ01q/photos/10675cad0571883d6c2b3cec1739cbba/mr_9506873efef344.jpg?ug_____DAdaftw6E" alt="" align="left" height="404" width="310"><p>I am standing in the grocery store check-out line behind a woman and her young daughter. The girl is...

A bone to pick with fashion magazines...

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Okay. Maybe I'm being ridiculous or it's very possible I just don't get it. Why do fashion magazines, with the exception of Vogue or Harpers Bazar, put clothing on their models that are so outrageously expensive, most mainstream women...

Is Victoria Beckham's harsh look sexy, or just plain miserable?

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As a young girl, I spent countless hours in front of the mirror practicing. Cheeks sucked in, lips in a flat line, I hoped someday to perfect the look I call the Ice Queen, also known as the B---- . Then, as now, it was featured in endless magazines and movies, and to my pliable young mind, that was...

Are fashion magazines the devil?

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Who isn’t subject to little body image angst, right? Well, according to an article in the Spring issue of Ms. Magazine, body image issues among young women and girls are on the rise and mass media is to blame. In the article, Caroline Heldman, assistant professor of politics at Occidental College,...