Glamour editors must think their readers are pretty dumb. From how to wash your face to what men are thinking, we didn't learn anything new this month. Well, except when it's appropriate to pee on your man's motorcycle.
Sometimes ideas in edgy fashion magazines end up going mainstream and show up in glossy corporate-owned ladymags. But in a reversal, V Magazine's January issue will feature plus-size models, months after Glamour's plus-size issue. V editor-in-chief Stephen Gan says:
Of course, the other side of the coin is that …
Michelle Obama, Rihanna, Serena Williams, Amy Poehler, and Maria Shriver are all fantastic choices for the cover of Glamour. Too bad they all have to share the December issue so Jessica Simpson can get her own month.
How's that "body image revolution" going for Glamour? Baby steps, but moving forward.
Today on Ellen, Amy Pohler revealed her Glamour cover (other editions feature fellow "Women of the Year" Michelle Obama and Rihanna), then had the audience wave to her son Archie, who watches every day with his nanny. Clip at left.
Good news, ladies: The November issue of Glamour features its much-ballyhooed plus-sized photoshoot, meaning that being bigger than a sample size is finally acceptable (though readers' faces, wardrobes, and sex lives still need some work).
Models from Glamour's plus-size spread will be on The Ellen DeGeneres Show today with editor-in-chief Cindi Leive. In the preview clip after the jump, we get our first look at the photo, which Leive pledges is only the beginning.
November at Glamour magazine: Scarlett, sex, love, an absence of pants. [JustJared]
Glamour is launching a sweet, uber-girly advertising campaign that paints its readers as nice, all-American girls. And in another strange move, the mag is holding a retro-sounding "Search for America's Sweetheart" that's also being made into a reality show.
On Today editor Cindi Leive and model Lizzi Miller discussed the huge response to Glamour's picture of Miller's belly. "The first thing I thought was 'OK, not the most flattering picture,'" says Miller, "But that's real." Clip at left.
Glamour has apparently been inundated with emails and letters from readers who say they love the "woman on p. 194" of the magazine's September issue, who is pictured in her underwear, proudly showing off her pooch.
The May cover of Glamour teases "The Sexiest Swimsuit For Your Shape." And once you open the mag, you'll discover that — gasp — they actually shot women with a variety of bodies!
We just got the new issue of Glamour, and after the jump we'll even show you the cover! We haven't made it through its Chaucerian heft yet BUT, would we be the target audience for these things if we weren't going to make snap judgments based on totally superficial qualities?
We're not sure what's wrong with Alyssa Shelasky's love life since she stopped actually writing about it, but the editors of Glamour sure seem to have some ideas! Last week, Glamour enlisted Alyssa to present the three leading guy candidates to replace longtime dating columnist "Jake" to present them with a challenge…
Alyssa Shelasky has just announced on her blog that she has inexplicably broken up with her boyfriend of a month and a half (and she's making a valiant effort not to equate it with the Virginia Tech tragedy!). In light of this surprising romantic development, and Alyssa's unsatisfying lack of explanation for it ("It…
Say what you will about Glamour magazine's "Beauty Insider" blog, but you have to admit the thing's consistent. After all, its writers — three of the beauty department's writers/editors — manage to post 2 to 3 times a day despite their full time jobs sampling beauty products and going to open-bar events thrown by…
We were once going to read a well-reviewed book about Iraq's Green Zone, but we couldn't even read past the author's surname. So it's nice that the fine people who brought us Alyssa Shelasky — Glamour! Who else? - have introduced a new blog written from inside the military compound by a girl with a penchant for…
When retired US scribe Alyssa Shelasky took a gig blogging about dating for the Glamour website last summer, we sort of thought we understood what everyone was getting at: Conde Nast needed to beef up the "content" on its magazines' websites so as to continue deluding themselves that women's magazines remain relevant…
Sometimes we wonder why many of the tips so breathlessly recounted in Glamour — like "eat vegetables" (p. 154), "sunburns are unhealthy" (p. 129-146), and "if you have really big tits you will look kind of slutty in a string bikini" (p. 106) — are the type of things you our moms told us when we were like, ten*. We…
