Sun Dec 11
Access to 400,000 pages of fashion history can be yours for $1500, a nominal fee equal to what it would have cost you to buy every issue of
Vogue in real life when it came out, in order to look at it in “crisp detail, with all the illustrations and ads” on a screen. Do you live in the 1920s and wonder what shoes you should wear out in the rain? $1500 for the answer. Or free
here (just saying). Anna Wintour and Hamish Bowles (rhymes with
fame, not the sandwich) bark in their posh English accents about this “treasure trove” of “memorabilia” for the “nostalgic” or uncultured. I apparently
blog whenever Anna Wintour moves, which is, believe it or not, a rare occasion. But this, I feel, is another sad ploy by an old woman who “doesn’t follow market research” (CELEBS!) and “goes by instinct” (CELEBS!). Bizarre the
best-selling issue of all time was fronted by models. I’m just waiting for another “risky” cover featuring a “risky” celeb, like Anne Hathaway. Who
knows where that girl’s career is headed…
