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If you were one of the people who shed a shimmery Hollywood Regency tear when Domino folded in 2009, come on, get happy: A special "Quick Fixes" edition of Domino will show up on newsstands in April. More »
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A totally lame group of fun-hating parents demanding their children's minds be shielded from hypersexual content have banded together to petition that Cosmopolitan, the best magazine to read if you'd like to be sexually judged in airports, be concealed in the checkout area of their local supermarkets. Where's a girl got to put a scrunchie in order to get some fearless fun around here?! More »
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Vintage covers and advertising! Seriously, just go look. More »
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2011 is already over in magazine-land, where January '12 issues are filling up newsstand shelves. This allows us to ask, and answer, the hard questions, like: did people buy a catastrophic number of magazines with Kim Kardashian's face on them this year, or just a distressingly high one? And what's the deal with Sarah Jessica Parker, anyway? SJP proved a reliable cover subject on Elle, Vogue, and Marie Claire, earning each magazine its second- or third-bestseller of the year. Kim Kardashian had Glamour and Cosmopolitan's bestsellers, but on the front of Harper's Bazaar, Self, and Lucky, Kim's face elicited only average sales. Women's Wear Daily reports that "a source said that her January 2012 Glamour cover with sisters Khloé and Kourtney is on track to fall below 400,000 sales — a really poor performance." Peering into the American id by way of magazine-buying habits has its interesting findings: people like Mark Sanchez more than they do Derek Jeter. They don't like Reese Witherspoon, but they do like Gwyneth Paltrow — just not on the cover of Bon Appetit. Heidi Klum did well, and so did Mila Kunis, who delivered 15% above-average sales for W and 10% above-average for Cosmopolitan. But people hate Justin Timberlake on a cover: with Mila, he had the fourth-best Elle of the year, but alone, he was Esquire's worst seller. Also unwanted on magazine covers in 2011: Justin Bieber. Nobody bought Bieber's Vanity Fair — it was the third-worst selling issue not only of the year, but of editor Graydon Carter's entire tenure — and his Rolling Stone sold 5% below average. Maybe all of those Beliebers who buy up multiple copies of his albums should show a little love to their local newsagent? And Lady Gaga had both the third-best and the third-worst Harper's Bazaar issues of the year (May being best and October being worst). Either people were all like, 'Wait, we just got a Harper's Bazaar with this lady's face on it, what gives?' or they prefer Gaga with makeup and weird facial prosthetics. (Her October cover was au naturel.) [WWD] More »
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At this point, we know that most, if not all, of the commercial, non-news images we see are digitally enhanced. Still, studies show that women — of all sizes — feel bad and/or think negative thoughts about their bodies after viewing pictures of models in magazine ads for just three minutes. And many magazine readers are not yet women; they are girls, with still-developing physiques, self-esteem and brains. Yet extensive Photoshopping persists. But what if you could measure just how much a photograph had been altered? Would it help in countering the effect of these misleading images? We may find out: A proposal for a program is in the works. More »
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The South African edition of Marie Claire put together a "body issue," and asked ad agencies to come up with concepts where the thing being advertised is loving your body. An interesting twist from a ladymag — usually such publications are blamed for fostering low-self esteem in women. More »
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"I'm not going to sit and be steamrolled; I'm going to stand up against things that are unjust," she says in the new issue of InStyle. "I am full of unicorns and Care Bears 99 percent of the time, but don't open Pandora's Box of that other 1 percent — because it's there!" She also says: "I'm a design-blog junkie. Cozycozy.com is my favorite. Architects, landscapers and designers are my drugs of the moment." More »
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Worth noting: There are four actual models on four different covers of the October issue of Elle. This is the first time a model has been on the cover in eight years. The ladies are well-known names: Miranda Kerr, Chanel Ima, Adriana Lima and Doutzen Kroes. It's both intriguing and disorienting to see models on a mainstream woman's magazine again; the effect is both retro and somehow new and fresh. Ladymags had fallen into in a rut in the last few years; recycling and alternating the same 15 Hollywood celebs, including Aniston, Kidman, Simpson, SJP and Johansson. But the ubiquitous blonde actresses and singers we saw a couple of years ago have been set aside for women who make a living out of posing and shilling clothes. At least for a month! Whether this change can translate into great newsstand sales remains to be seen. But this former magazine junkie — who hasn't picked up a ladymag for personal perusing in months — is definitely buying one. I just have to decide: Will it be awesomely smiley Chanel Iman? Or frakking fierce Adriana? More »
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1. That week in 1975 she "disappeared" with Bob Marley. More »
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This will shock you: The women portrayed in ladymags don't reflect their readership. In this case, when it comes to age. More »
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The woman who plays Betty Draper says: "I'll stop at McDonald's and get a strawberry shake and fries and not feel guilty at all, because I deserve it." More »
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In November of last year, the premiere issue of Pole Spin magazine arrived, and, as far as we could tell, it was the only magazine dedicated to The International Pole Dance Fitness & Lifestyle. But now! Meet Vertical, a new bimonthly publication about the "sport and performance of pole." More »
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American Vogue's fawning, and roundly criticized, profile of Asma al-Assad, the First Lady of Syria, got me thinking about the almost-funny and totally abject stupidity of so much of that luxury rag's "coverage" of "serious" world events. From puff-pieces about dictatorships to homeless chic, models posed as oil-slicked birds to an urban guerilla fashion story, Vogue really has done it all! Never mind the fact that nobody in their right mind would ever pick it up for its up-to-the-minute reports from Benghazi: willful obliviousness on this scale has to be seen to be believed. More »
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The weather today in New York is shitty — chilly and overcast and drizzly — which seems appropriate for a Monday. And no, the firmament won't be providing residents of the tri-state area with any particular reason to get out of bed in the morning and put on clean underwear for the rest of this week, either. But this technofabulous psychedeliprintamazing Marie Claire editorial with Tasha Tilberg is sure lifting my mood! Fruit prints! Stripes! Asymmetrical shit! Fashion, this is why I can't quit you. More »
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When we heard that there was app from Cosmopolitan magazine that moaned, we were intrigued. So we downloaded it! Not only does it moan, it grunts, swears and curses (although the curses have been bleeped out by the Cosmo powers that be). It's all part of a story in the digital issue titled "Decode His Bedroom Sounds," as though these utterances are mysterious — it's fairly obvious that "he" is enjoying himself. And speaking of "him" — who is this guy? A Cosmo intern? Some editor's boyfriend? Or did the magazine actually pay a voiceover actor to pretend to have an orgasm?! More »
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Kim Kardashian is the March coverlady on Harper's Bazaar, and inside, she plays the Queen Of Denial The Nile in photographs by (who else?) Terry Richardson. She also talks about her body, since that is one of her strongest talents. Quoth Kim: "I'm on a diet… I need to be. I love to eat-Kit Kats or cookies-and-cream ice cream. I need sugar like five times a day." Mmm. Kit-Kats.

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They promise to tone, transform, fix, and whittle your body, but all women's fitness magazines really do is help you lose all that flabby self-esteem you've spent years accumulating. How are they bullshit? Let us count the ways. More »
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Our love for Mindy Kaling is well-documented, which is why we were thrilled to see her in Elle this month. Less thrilling: this photo. For a moment, we weren't even sure that was her. More »
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On Monday, Crystal Renn was a guest on Plus Model Radio, and she talked about her anorexia, her recovery, and her decision to become a plus-size model. Although: A new Ford model card states that Renn is a size 2. More »
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At first, you could get excited about a graphic representation of influential women in tech. And then you read the text. More »
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It's not that she doesn't look pretty — she does! But except for the familiar wary side-eye on the cover, she doesn't look like Kristen Stewart. Additional Stepford weirdness after the jump. More »
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You've always known Cosmopolitan had a one-track mind, but this video illustrates just how much the magazine relies on one word: Sex. More »
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Blogger Darren Barefoot analyzed dozens of Cosmo and Maxim issues and generated word clouds that show what the lad and ladymag are selling you. Not surprisingly, it's sex. More »
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She'll make the switch from fashion director to boss-lady on February 1. Don't expect any revolutions: though more "boyish" and "rock 'n' roll" than "sexy, frankly materialistic" departing editor Carine Roitfeld, Alt was chosen largely to "provide continuity." More »
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• Nicole Kidman is on the February cover of Harper's Bazaar, and inside, she is interviewed by Jennifer Aniston. (They're both in that new Adam Sandler flick.) Nic tells Jen how she felt when she first met Keith Urban.

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• Worst-selling, that is. Swift's April Elle issue sold the fewest copies of the year, and her covers of Glamour and Marie Claire were nearly as bad. Blake Lively bombed on Vogue and Esquire, but weirdly sold well for Allure. [WWD]

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This year you may have asked yourself, why the hell are the Kardashians on so many magazine covers? The answer is simple. More »
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Last December, Condé Nast sued a fashion blogger for posting unpublished pictures from Vogue, Teen Vogue, and Lucky. The culprit? 22-year-old fashion-obsessed community college student Ross Ulrich, who once said his "heroes" were Bruce Weber, Steven Klein, and Mario Testino. More »
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"The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A. They always say, 'You're amazing, you're so funny.'" So says Emily Blunt in January's issue of Harper's Bazzar UK. An actual cynic in Hollywood! More »
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SJP looks predictably tiny and pretty on the January cover of Elle, and inside, she talks about her kids, working for Halston, and everyone's favorite topic, getting older in Hollywood! More »
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Reese Witherspoon has been in 25 movies and has two kids. At 34, she says in January's Glamour, she feels sexier than ever. And she's not scared about being a woman getting older in the unforgiving Hollywood industry. More »
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Retired New York City schoolteachers will picket the Hearst Tower tomorrow demanding the job of magazine group chairwoman Cathie Black, who will be NYC schools chancellor despite having no education experience. They point out that they've read a magazine. More »
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Kelly Osbourne is on the December issue of Shape (for some reason, she's not standing thigh-deep in water, like most of the mag's cover models), and she tells the magazine that negative commentary in the press really affected her. More »
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Here is an internal Harper's Bazaar document that lists the brands to feature in upcoming editorial spreads, ranked according to priority — and helpfully divided between "Advertisers" and "Non-Advertisers." This is how your ladymag sausage gets made. More »
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In the December issue of Vogue, Angelina Jolie promotes her upcoming film The Tourist, calls Brad Pitt "sexy" and "handsome," and tells a weird story about Shiloh Jolie-Pitt and a dead bird. More »
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This season, fashion is heavily into gold. Models are dripping in gold chains, draped in metallicized leathers, or covered, like Siri Tollerod here, in actual gold leaf. I can only assume the ladymags are listening to too much Glenn Beck. More »
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If you try to find the lightning-rod "opinion piece" "Should Fatties Get a Room (Even On TV)" a funny thing happens: nothing. It seems that, without a word, the magazine has taken the offensive post down. More »
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I ask because, well, that's where this started, isn't it? When Maura Kelly unwisely decided to proceed with articulating her disgust with "fatties," it was because her editor brought it up. More »
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Editor-in-chief Valerie Latona got many complaints when the October issue hit stands, and sent out an apology which began: "Please know that our putting her on the cover was not meant to put a husband-stealer on a pedestal…" Oops! More »
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