Anna Wintour Interview / Vogue Archives

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…

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The CFDA Awards

The CFDA Awards is where the most glamorous people of fashion get together to celebrate the past year’s designers. Only the elite can get invited and the hardworking get awarded. The people who attend are the ones that make the fashion industry what it is today. Designers, models, editors, stylists, and celebrities involved in fashion were freshly photographed with a polaroid from an unknown photographer.

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Industrie Magazine

Industrie Magazine, for those who are non-culturally influenced, is a magazine started up by Erik Torstensson & Jens Grede. Featuring Anna Wintour on their cover, they use mystery to their advantage. This flip-through is so fast you’d miss it if you sneezed. It’s just enough enticement to get my wallet out, wondering when the issue will drop. I feel like there are enough publications about boring celebrities and cultureless culture. I want to know about the editors, the stylists, the people who put so much effort into their work yet are scarcely recognized. Site / Twitter g

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The September Issue + Grace Coddington

Wintour’s reign has been long, and while she may be viewed as a success by pushing fashion into the greedy claws of a rather unfashionable youth, she is hardly a success in my books. Rather, it is Grace Coddington who should be admired for her exquisite eye and romantic charm. Anna Wintour is a driving force, but her entire claim is that she brought Vogue into the limelight by putting celebrities on the cover. I know many people in the fashion world who think Vogue is one of the worst magazines, for exactly this reason. Pick up a Vogue Paris, or Vogue Italia, and then we’ll chat.

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Vogue

February Vogue US actually has some good pictures. Is it just me that is supes excited?! Vogue US, you know, the magazine that had Scarlett Johanssen on the cover? Yeah, exactly. I know what you’re thinking. LAMO! But perhaps this new editorial signifies a change for the peeps at Vogue. Maybe they ousted Anna Wintour and did their own thing. Well with a star studded cast of models including Anna Maria Jagodzinska, Viktoriya Sasonkina, Karlie Kloss, Liya Kebede, Jourdan Dunn, Natasha Poly and shot by THE Steven Meisel, perhaps this magazine hasn’t yet been “seventeen-ed”. We’ll have to see. In the mean time, enjoy It’s a Madcap World.

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