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Do people get confused by Harper's Magazine and Harper's Bazaar? We do! After all, the luxury goods industry is not so different from Halliburton — shameless, ubiquitous, and oh so good at charging more for less! So, as usual, we're taking things to their (ill)logical end with a little mash-up of both magazines in the form of Harper's famous "Index" feature, which parses the world of big oil, big money, and Big Pharma and puts it into easily-digested numerical form. After the jump, see how overpriced merchandise, deceased fashion-industry icons and celebrity trainers pair up with prisoner compensation, military casualties and Barry Bonds' shoe size.
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Earlier: The Harper's (Bazaar) Index
Comments
This is pretty much my favorite feature ever.
Excellent! The Harper Brothers would be so proud.
Fantastic!! I'd like to see some line in there calling out the alwasy -inspid letter from the editor pieces. For instance, Number of times editor calls celebrity's fashion sense "bold," "iconic" or "daring." Etc..
Brilliant! Bazaar has been steadily declining since Liz Tilberis' death, but I thought it has somewhat rebounded from the nadir of the Dark Ages of Kate Betts. Now that it has Paris/Nicole on the covers and Dina Lohan in the articles, it's become US Weekly with a trust fund.
Okay, this happens every time you ladies do a feature like this: how come it opens in a window that I can't scroll down or enlarge? It's doing the same thing in IE and Firefox.
Wow, my new favorite feature of the tubes. See you ladies next month.
Wow - a healthy, vibrant, normal-sized starlet like Anne Hathaway sure does look better skeletal and dead-eyed.
No lie. Once I tried to send my 80-something-year old Grannie a subscription to Harper's. She got Bazaar. Not only did she get Bazaar, but there was NO WAY TO STOP IT. Multiple phone calls and several months of Tom Ford haute crotch shots later, my grandmother is no longer bombarded by scantily-clad, coked-up Russians. Nor did she get a few issues of a somewhat snooty liberal rag. And now she's in assisted living.
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