| Fashion Magazines - it's not just about women | | Posted Sunday, February 12, 2006 11:17:10 AM by Rose Martins | What comes to mind when you think of the topic "fashion magazine"?  I guess most of us would think of the well known fashion magazines such as Elle, Cosmo, marie claire and Vogue. But how many of us would think of a men's fashion magazine such as GQ or Men's health? Fashion magazines are not just limited to woman. There are fashion magazines for men, for children, for dolls and even for your pets. Whatever you might glimpse on the catwalk..........there is a fashion magazine covering it.
Most of the big names in fashion magazines have local publications, but often the foreign international version will also be available, but usually at quite an expensive price. European fashion magazines from Spain, Italy and France are available worldwide, as are American and English fashion magazines.
If you are lucky, your favourite monthly magazine will also have a free fashion magazine supplement, filled with glossy photos and featured articles about the fashion runways locally and abroad. These are usually published twice a year with the spring/summer and autumn(fall)/winter collections being launched for these seasons.
Most fashion magazines also have an online version. So don't dispair if your local magazine seller has sold out of your favourite fashion magazine. Just search the net.......... ... | |
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| | | Modeling needs a new ideal | | Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:03:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | We can blame it on Kate Moss. Or the fashion designers. Or the glossy magazines that feature those fashion designers. Or ourselves, for buying those magazines and feeding the beauty machines. It doesn't really matter, does it? A decade ago, give or take a couple of years, the fashion world changed so abruptly that we're all still reeling. Cindy Crawford and the rest of the glamazons were out. Moss and the so-called waifs, the purveyors of "heroin chic," were in. So long, self-confidence; hello, self-criticism. Do you remember George Michael's "Freedom '90" video? It featured Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Tatiana Patitz. These models, these runway glamazons, were far from average, but at least they still looked like women. Compare them with the runway models of today whose bodies are at the center of an international debate.... | |
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| | | Drop by drop | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 1:05:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | All those leggings everyone's wearing? They wouldn't be, had it not been for designers at New York Fashion Week. How about all those long, belted gray cardigan sweaters or dainty ballet flats? Fashion Week. And the return of all those ladylike dresses? Fashion Week again.You might not ever buy the latest from Marc Jacobs. You might not be able to afford what's new from Oscar de la Renta. And you may never be thin enough to fit into anything made by Proenza Schouler. But there's a good chance some of what those top designers put on the runways starting Friday at New York Fashion Week will, in the next few years, trickle down to your closet.Don't believe it?Ann Taylor, one of the country's leading midpriced retailers for stylish women, has a selection of printed faux wrap dresses in dark, muted colors.... | |
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| | | D&G condemned over knife ads | | Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:06:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | Britain's advertising watchdog has criticised Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana for a campaign showing models brandishing knives. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the industry regulator, upheld more than 150 complaints from people concerned that the stylised pictures glorified and condoned violent crime. One of the two adverts, which appeared in the Times newspaper, showed two men threatening a man in a chair while another lay on the floor with a head wound. It was printed last October next to an article about knife crime. There is widespread concern over the level of violent assaults in Britain. A second advertisement in the Daily Telegraph newspaper featured two men supporting a wounded woman holding a knife. The fashion label said the adverts, which appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world, were heavily stylised and were meant to mimic early 19th century art. The pictures were designed to evoke the Napoleonic period of art, "emphasising the theatrical effects of that genre". In a written ruling, the ASA acknowledged the stylised nature of the pictures, but said they could still cause "serious or widespread offence". "The ad could be seen as condoning and glorifying knife-related violence," the ASA said of the Times advert.... | |
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| | | Fashion gifts can be a mini-makeover for your giftees | | Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 1:07:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | I know some of you have purchased, wrapped and tagged every single gift on your list, and I'm sure you're feeling very pleased with yourselves today. But the rest of us are starting to panic right about now, thank you, and we'd rather not listen to you gloat about how you've been finished since September. .... | |
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| | | Love Poses Nude For Fashion Magazine | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 3:04:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | Rocker COURTNEY LOVE has bared all for the exclusive bi-annual issue of British fashion magazine Pop. The 42-year-old traveled to Ibiza to pose for the publication, which is out later this month (NOV06). In one of the pictures, the former HOLE singer is shown standing with her legs apart and her breasts fully exposed wearing only "strappy designer panties". Another shot shows the blonde fully naked with her knees curled up to protect her modesty. The widow of NIRVANA rocker KURT COBAIN appeared naked in the 1996 film THE PEOPLE VS LARRY FLYNT, but has always declined lucrative offers from men's magazines to pose nude. Love boasted to US ABC News Radio interviewer DAVE ALPERT, "How hot do I look?," showing him an advanced copy of the magazine. She added, "Naked as the day I was born. Isn't that crazy?" 14/11/2006 02:18 .... | |
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| | | Where punk meets lolita | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:23:28 AM by Blog57 Team | | WHEN two galaxies collide a new star is born, when two clashing fashion styles meet each other a new trend emerges. Black, white and red apparel adorned with studs, chains and small metal sculptures of skulls and crosses are all part of punk. Laces, frills and pleats are the elements to transform a girl-next-door to the envied princess and the fashion style called lolita has them all. .... | |
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| | | WHERE ARE THE SISTERS? | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 1:32:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | It is something that black women have known for years, but this week daytime telly queen Trisha Goddard takes on the glossy fashion magazines that present the ideal of womanhood to the nation and asks where are the women of colour on the covers of magazines? I was setting off on holiday at the airport buying some magazines with my daughters. Something struck me on the cover of Augusts Cosmopolitan. There was a beautiful picture of Jamelia staring at me from the cover. I was excited and amazed and I thought to myself, why did I feel that way? I realised that Id never thought about it before but there had always only really been one face - Naomi Campbells on magazine covers and I thought why? BBC Radio Five Live invited me to investigate on-air the issue of race and the fashion media and they sent me out as a roving reporter to see some of the editors who shape our reading habits every week.... | |
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| | | Courtney Love Undresses For British Magazine | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 7:17:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | Courtney Love recently wanted to show her wild side (as if she hasn't enough already) and posed nude for a British fashion magazine. The 42-year-old star, the widow of Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain, traveled to Ibiza to pose for the exclusive bi-annual magazine Pop, which is out later this month. In one of the pictures, the former Hole singer is pictured standing with her legs apart and her breasts fully exposed wearing only "strappy designer panties." Another picture shows the blonde fully naked with her knees curled up to protect her modesty. Love is currently promoting her new book - a scrapbook of her private journals - "Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love." The singer-turned-actress appeared fully naked throughout her closing scene in the 1996 film "The People vs.... | |
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| | | NRIs: Top clients of Indian fashion designers | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:25:34 AM by Blog57 Team | | 'I'm calling from Los Angeles and I would like to buy the sari you advertised in the latest issue of this magazine,' said a refined NRI voice in a telephone call to the salon of a leading fashion designer in New Delhi. An equally sophisticated voice responded and the exact colour was decided in a few minutes. 'You will get the payment and please courier the sari today,' said the client. Within an hour, someone delivered Rs.85,000 in cash - about $1,900. Now that's no problem for a decent sari to be worn at her niece's wedding next week. After all one has to look good. Indian fashion designers go out of their way to cater to the NRI market - NRIs provide more than half their turnover. Indian films have influenced NRIs to prefer Indian ethnic wear for their Indian wedding ceremony while Western wear is for the formal wedding vows at the registrar's office.... | |
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| | | Party girls with a purpose: Building their own brands | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:08:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | So many parties, so many party pictures. Yet to hear the newest wave of socialites tell it, the businesslike grind of going out nightly is increasingly a platform for creating a business. Women like Beracasa (creative director of an estate jewelry company), Mortimer (designer of her own handbag line) and many others are exploring a new socialite end game - one in which they become a brand with mainstream recognition (extra points awarded for an actual logo). Aggressively milking the fame they acquire through their irrepressible urge to dress up and be photographed, they are spinning off businesses that may one day provide nest eggs for the time an inherited fortune runs dry or a Palm Beach marriage goes down in flames, or simply as a means of personal fulfillment.... | |
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