Vogue, Vodianova, Vapidness? Count Us In!
Confession time! We’ve hardly cracked open the June issue of Vogue. Maybe it’s the heat, but we just couldn’t bring ourselves to read “Life With Andre” (normally a reliably eye-rolling experience) once we saw it involved Tom Ford. There was the whole Keira Knightley-with-elephants thing. And we vaguely recall reading an excerpt from a British novel so drab it literally put us to sleep.
Yet we are bursting with anticipation over the July issue. Take a look at this!
Natalia Vodianova, an actual model! A respite from the glut of actresses promoting summer blockbusters! And check out those cover lines: Tanning abstinence! Red lips! The “manny” phenomenon! Oh, light and fun!
Not a single one of those items, save perhaps the red lips (which we love, but which we’re unlikely to attempt in the wilting heat of summer anyway), has the slightest shred of bearing on our life. But when it looks this glamorous, we’ll gladly wallow in irrelevance for a few hours. We only hope we won’t get so swept away that we feel the need to acquire a manny.
Image from DNA Models via Oh No They Didn’t
I bet the Elizabeth Edwards story is good, but I'm not buying the mag to find out.
Posted by: e | June 13, 2007 at 06:56 AM
It'll show up online eventually anyway.
Posted by: Glossed Over | June 13, 2007 at 10:17 AM
Thank you, good to know that I'm not the only one who found the whole Tom Ford thing rather vapid, and I'm tired of seeing the same actresses on a bunch of different magazine covers at the same time, plugging their movies. I've liked Knightley since "Bend it Like Beckham," but I'm tired of being buried in her.
Posted by: Sheila | June 15, 2007 at 05:40 PM
oh really? where will it show up online?
Posted by: heather | June 17, 2007 at 07:11 AM
oh really? where will it show up online?
Posted by: heather | June 17, 2007 at 07:11 AM
Heather, Vogue puts a small fraction of its own content online. Failing that, a lot of blogs reproduce articles in whole or in part, and magazines like People will write an article, including quotes from the original story.
Posted by: Glossed Over | June 18, 2007 at 07:13 AM
vogue does not put those types of articles online. take a look and see.
Posted by: jane | June 21, 2007 at 05:23 AM
Re: Vogue's posting an article in full online ... To my knowledge, Conde Nast (as a whole) only reissues content for online use in bits and pieces ... and somewhat after the fact.
Posted by: NotQuiteITGirl | June 21, 2007 at 05:34 PM