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Bunsy
08/22/09

In reply to The September Issue: A Portrait Of The Quaint Old Consumer Economy
I saw it the other night and found it a bit dull. The one really worthwhile scene is Andre Leon Talley playing tennis in his LV getup (terrific).

I thought the Valentino doc ("The Last Emperor") got more of the glamour, talent, beauty of the fashion world, and was far more engrossing.

In watching Vogue, I really felt it was an era that had ended...

Just my opinion.
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tallgirl-in-heels
08/21/09

In reply to The September Issue: A Portrait Of The Quaint Old Consumer Economy
I'm not scared of fashion, nor do I put it down. What I put down is the absurdity of exalting the people who create, shill, and buy it in a manner that suggests that they are doing something important on the level of curing cancer. I believe fashion, at its best, has artistic value; it adds something worthwhile to our culture. But, folks, you are not curing devastating diseases or working towards peace and equality. I don't put down your fashion. I do, however, put down the over-inflated sense of self-importance that some people in the fashion world project.
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greengrey
08/21/09

@tallgirl-in-heels: Unfortunately, that attitude isn't only in the fashion industry. Most people aren't curing cancer, but I run into people from every walk of life in every industry with self-important attitudes. However, if a person IS really talented (as many fashion designers are, they're doing what I can't), I don't mind it.
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tallgirl-in-heels
08/21/09

@greengrey: Oh, I know. I work in the legal field, which has more than its fair share of over-inflated egos. I hate the attitude there as much as I do in fashion. It's one thing to own your talent and expect the appropriate level of recognition for your achievements. It's another thing entirely to act like an entitled, superior, asshole because you happen to be good at something considered exclusive (like fashion), or that is high paying (like big firm lawyering).
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Jenna
08/21/09

@tallgirl-in-heels: It's a fact of life that not everybody gets to cure cancer.

I do however believe that everyone deserves to, and should, take pride in his or her work.
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tallgirl-in-heels
08/21/09

@Jenna: I never said anything to the contrary. Rather, as I said in my reply to greengrey, everyone should own their talent and there's nothing wrong with expecting recognition for your achievements. Taking pride in your work, however, does not preclude one from having a sense of perspective. From reading your work, you seem to have a good sense of it. By contrast, the wealthy designer you wrote about who made you and your colleagues pose for hours on end without paying you or even adequately feeding you seems to be lacking a bit in the perspective department, and a little too well-endowed in the self-importance department. That the designer may be good at her job and deserves to take pride in her work doesn't excuse her behavior. But that's just my opinion.
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missinaction
08/21/09

In reply to The September Issue: A Portrait Of The Quaint Old Consumer Economy
"Tonne Goodman says after a styling critique where Wintour rejects nearly every look he has put together that he wants to kill himself "

Isn't Tonne Goodman female? Perhaps you have her confused with a different fashion editor?
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Jenna
08/21/09

@missinaction: Right you are. It was actually Edward Enninful who said that; serves me right for writing the review without a screener copy to refer to. Thanks for catching the mistake, which I've now fixed!
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missinaction
08/21/09

@Jenna: Well, thanks for fixing that! I've always liked Tonne's personal style. Not having seen the film, i wasn't really sure who you were referring to.
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funnyface
08/21/09

In reply to The September Issue: A Portrait Of The Quaint Old Consumer Economy
I love beautiful things, I just can't afford them. Vogue might as well be a magazine about faeries. It's not that I don't understand, Anna, it's that you operate in a completely different universe.
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andBegorrah
08/21/09

@funnyface: Jenna's phrasing, "It's like watching a need being manufactured," sums it all up for me - the film, the magazine, and the psychosocial/economic dimension of the fashion industry.
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smithhimself
08/21/09

In reply to The September Issue: A Portrait Of The Quaint Old Consumer Economy
Nice sum up except for the phrase "her intellectual heavyweight family." This is Chilly Charlie's daughter -- someone who dropped out of North London Collegiate when she was sixteen. Journalists in her b.g. Nothing intellectual.
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Pandorasvoicebox
08/21/09

In reply to The September Issue: A Portrait Of The Quaint Old Consumer Economy
OK, I went to dictionary.com, but I still don't get it. Someone explain to me. I r dumb.
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greengrey
08/21/09

@Pandorasvoicebox: Prelapsarian? Yeah, I had to run a search on that too. It refers to "the fall (of man)". Vogue in 2007 was still successful, so this film was before the fall of Vogue.
Though someone smarter than me can correct me if I'm wrong.
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heykoukla
08/21/09

@Pandorasvoicebox: I think it means the film shows the good ol' days, before the recession.
And yes, I had to look up the definition, too.
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andBegorrah
08/21/09

@greengrey: The term was used in the September issue on page 432. You can go look it up there - I'll wait.
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funnyface
08/21/09

@andBegorrah: BUT SOMEBODY STOLE MY PAGE 432.
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jairip
08/21/09

@funnyface:

Nobody stole your page 432. You just didn't use a Post-It did you? jk

And yes, I had to look it up too.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
08/21/09

@Pandorasvoicebox: It was my MA classmate's favorite word. I looked it up after she called the third or fourth thing prelapsarian. After two years, I really, really wanted to tell her to get a new word.
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willwriteforfood
08/21/09

@andBegorrah: Ha! I just snorted at work.
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Jenna
08/21/09

@Pandorasvoicebox: Like @greengrey said, it's a neat little word that refers to the time before the fall of man. In the theological sense, it's the period back before that bitch Eve invented sin.
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CaraOrestes
08/05/09

In reply to Vogue's Age Issue: 30 Is The New 80
This is why I steal my husband's magazine's. Sept "Men's Journal" is the Style & Design issue with great stuff in there.

Why can't women's magazine's be fun to read? Why do they always end up making me feel bad about my "office chair ass"?
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
08/05/09

@CaraOrestes: June "Men's Journal" has Rafa on the cover. I don't have to care how I look when I read because not only does he give great interview, he looks good even when his hair is very sweaty.
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Spangles
08/05/09

In reply to Vogue's Age Issue: 30 Is The New 80
Wait. I'm really confused what are walkabout eyebrows exactly?
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I'm Chuck Bass
08/05/09

@Spangles: Isn't a walkabout what John Locke was going to do in Australia on Lost? Now I'm picturing my eyebrows yelling, "Don't tell me what I can't do!"
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Margaret
08/05/09

@Spangles: They are balding, unruly eyebrows... it didn't make much sense.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
08/05/09

@Margaret: Balding and unruly?? That's too much woman-looks hate, even for Vogue, I think.
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BlondeGoddess
08/05/09

In reply to Vogue's Age Issue: 30 Is The New 80
What I hate most about these 'beauty' features, is that they are a very thinly veiled ploy for the writers to get free treatments/surgery/whatever.
You're rich bitches! Pay for it already! Don't bore me with these stories!
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Miss. Money-Sterling
08/05/09

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I'm not very aware of fashion and models, and even I have somehow been convinced that these women are oldish. When I read that Christy Turlingon was 40 I thought, JEBUS, that's my demographic, if not my actual age. Somehow I was under the impression she was much older than me. Damn you, magazines, for implying that youngish, vibrant women are old ladies. They're in their flippin' prime! For shame.
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Yahtzii
08/05/09

In reply to Vogue's Age Issue: 30 Is The New 80
We are each shiny grasshoppers, with a little gold "C" gilded onto our thorax. The world of fashion is shiny and ebullient, like a pair of Louboutins in a bubble bath with a rainbow. It is about expressing our inner joie de puppie, in which we pounce and tussle with each other like the beautiful whole grains and kali yuga yoga spirals that engender our leggings age.

At least, that's what I took away from it.
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krismry
08/05/09

@Yahtzii: Quite apt, since the Kali Yuga is probably best personified by the values of Vogue. The Kali Yuga is the worst of the great ages. a disintigrating, amoral, and ultimately stupid eon that goes on basically for ever without changing much.
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Yahtzii
08/05/09

@krismry: I just learned what it was because a studio opened near my house. It is designed to counteract the effects of the Kali Yuga, and very fittingly it looks like the opposite of the Vogue accessories closet.
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Dodgergirl
08/05/09

In reply to Vogue's Age Issue: 30 Is The New 80
Pardon me, Vogue, but I am not a butterfly. I am a LADY BUG. Because I am a LADY. Butterflies are so uncouth!
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CurtCole
08/05/09

In reply to Vogue's Age Issue: 30 Is The New 80
My Solutions to Oribe advice on how to be a Christy Turlington style Model
1. "She's smarter than a whip"—Saddle soap is excellent for leather whips.
2. "There are so many gorgeous women that are not smart or witty and kind"—You only have to be one of these in addition to beautiful. I recommend "kind" it is the easiest to fake.
3. "She was this superclassy thing"—"superclassy" isn’t a word, so apparently you only have to be a "thing" and since you are a proper noun you can get down with your bad self.
4. "and a virgin"—Well…have an "urgin'," at least it rhymes and maybe no one will notice.
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dianersb was bit by a zombie
08/05/09

In reply to Vogue's Age Issue: 30 Is The New 80
I for one am not a painted butterfly. I have no wings, I'm not wearing make-up, and I didn't spend part of my life taking a nap in a coccoon.
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pesematology
08/05/09

@dianersb was bit by a zombie: I'm not winged or made-up either, but I do spend a lot of time napping in my cocoon. Maybe I'm still a caterpillar? Or something else like a flea or a wasp?
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dianersb was bit by a zombie
08/05/09

@pesematology: I think I'm more like a contented tiger. Full of naps, but still awesome.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
08/05/09

In reply to Vogue's Age Issue: 30 Is The New 80
Wait, if 30 is the new 80, that makes me what, 85? I am immediately going to start being exactly that awesome. Score.
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pesematology
08/05/09

@TheFormerJuneBronson: It's an exponential scale. You're actually like 280 years old.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
08/05/09

@pesematology: When 280 years old you reach, look as good, you will not!
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
08/05/09

@TheFormerJuneBronson: Hee. A Jedi craves not these things.
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