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Showing posts with label magazine. Show all posts

15 April 2008

I love MARC JACOBS


Now more than ever.

A mid-life crisis looks good on him.
Yes I do look at GQ's style blog. Don't you?
"And yet nothing has created a greater stir than his startling new look. Where he once had long greasy locks and the pallor of a shut-in, he now, at 45, has an iridescent blue crop, honking Harry Winston diamond studs, a gallery of tattoos, and a painstakingly ripped bod. After years of hiding in baggy sweatshirts while contemplating the beauty of others—of pondering any human facade but his own—Jacobs has discovered the consuming joy of narcissism. It’s his new addiction. Some would say, his midlife crisis."

And I think I like him so much because he likes clothes as much as I do, for the same reason:
Clothes promised deliverance from all that, and Jacobs became obsessed with the possibilities. “I’d look at my babysitter and her boyfriend and long to be at an age where I could wear what they were wearing,” he says. Clothes had the stirring, transformative power of music—of rock, punk, and particularly grunge. “There was a beaten-down glamour about the whole thing,” Jacobs says, “something so kind of romantic and beautiful.”

17 July 2007

see jane run

Jane magazine is no more as of August 2007. My friend, the fabulously eloquently cynical Amy, mentioned it to me a few days ago. Note: Super impressive DC PR firm needs to give Amy back. I for one am sort of relieved. While I was a fan years ago, the more recent issues have seemed a little well, boring. Jane used to have more spirit to it. It was starting to be sort of typical. And pandering. And I have no idea how you can ask the founder and editor of the magazine (Jane Pratt) to leave and still consider it the same magazine. I mean, it was named after her! Plus, she was really freaking cool, a real person who seemed to put her own personal stamp on each issue.
Truthfully, I heard the death rattle of this publication when Avril Lavigne was put on the cover. I mean, how lame is that?
What’s next though? With the exception of a few great publications, the women’s magazine industry is a festering stagnant pool. In it’s heyday, Jane was fun because it had something for everyone in an entertaining and cool way. I think that Nylon lives up to this but it more geared towards art/fashion/culture rather than realistic advice, women’s health, beauty, and social issues. Plus, it's not as widely circulated. That is severely lacking in a culture where Nicole Ritchie’s BMI is monitored as if it is Homeland Security’s Terror Alert system