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The September issues of women's magazines are historically the thickest and most anticipated of the year, filled with a particularly frenzied orgy of materialism. WWD has the scoop on the covergirls for those issues, which will hit newsstands in late August. Keira Knightley will grace the cover of Vogue for the second time in under two years — the fourth time in total — even though her last cover from June '07 (pictured) didn't sell well. Glamour has Penélope Cruz, W is featuring Kate Hudson, In Style will highlight Uma Thurman, Allure has Carrie Underwood, Teen Vogue has Vanessa Hudgens, Elle has Jessica Simpson, and finally, Cosmo will show Blake Lively. (The teen queen's presence in Cosmo confirms our suspicion that the magazine is not actually geared towards grown women). [WWD, sub. req.]
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Stressed out? Overwhelmed? Don't despair! August Glamour is here to calm you down, using weird-ass imagery and bizarre advice. Public nudity, pseudoscience, and vagina superheroes...by clicking on the cover image.
DO: Try This At Work…
The one cool thing about being a woman in the workplace is that you are much less likely to get sued for sexual harassment than your male counterparts. Glamour is doing its part to change that! Read the best one of Glamour's "16 Secrets of Seduction" by clicking the cover.
Glamour Shots
We opened the latest Glamour on the subway last night and quite literally LOL-ed at a pic of Christina Aguilera and her dog Stinky contained inside, though it took awhile to realize exactly why… [Click the image to check it out.]
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Glamour's "Beach Issue": Fight Cancer While You Soak Up The Rays!
You know how Charlize Theron's mom shot her dad when she was 13 and it was ruled self-defense because he was a wifebeater and oh, by the way, all this happened in South Africa where the law didn't really consider black people to be fully human until 1994, which must have been pretty insane to grow up around...and...anyway she's in a new movie with Will Smith! And she has some platitudes to share re the subject of love and relationships!! I mean, if you wanted to hear about domestic violence and racism and the legacy of apartheid you wouldn't be wasting your time on celebrity profiles, right? Anyway, Charlize Theron is on the cover and in fairness to Glamour every profile of Charlize Theron sounds the same, like there is some editor scrawling all over the rough draft, Bitch gained THIRTY FUCKING POUNDS to play that dyke serial killer and that is about as HEAVY AS WE GET HERE, PUN INTENDED. Anyway, more groundbreaking and complex "Beach Issue" features distilled into cheap blasphemous mocking cover lines after the jump. More »
home as hell
Why Do Women Insist On Buying Houses?
"The scariest money mistake women can make (Hint: It's not shoes!)" sure sooounds like your average "Hey, it's O.K.…" Glamour enablement missive. (This month: Hey, it's O.K… to think about your eBay bid during sex!) But actually, "Welcome To My Mortgage Hell", penned by Meghan Daum, who knows a little bit about money mistakes, is interesting/depressing/important. Women, particularly single women, are addicted to acquiring real estate. "You use your home as a way to express who you are," says one lawyer and expert. Like shoes! But this is a newer development: until the 1970s single women were rarely allowed to buy homes without somehow proving the veracity of their intention to never have kids; today the rate of homeownership (or, you know, "ownership") among single women — single women who've been taking on half-million dollar double adjustable-rate crackpot mortgages with no down payment and that sort of thing — is twice that of single dudes. But why? More »
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Glamour Writes A Misguided Love Letter To "Bobby's Girls"
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of RFK's assassination, Glamour commissioned a several page article about Kennedy's daughters and granddaughters entitled "Bobby's Girls." We got a press release about it this morning and my initial reaction was: What? Let's start with the title. It's obvious from the get-go that these women are only being featured because of their kinship with an ultra-powerful patriarch. But calling them Bobby's Girls? Patronizing much? Which is not to say that these women haven't done impressive things in their own right (Kathleen is a former lieutenant governor of Maryland; Rory directed The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib), but to feature them only within the context of their deceased father is an odd and somewhat infantilizing choice. Then there is the question of why. Why, of all magazines, is Glamour celebrating RFK's legacy? Last time I checked, Glamour's "serious" articles are generally Marianne Pearl's international beat: stories of hope about far-flung female heroines. The rest of Glamour is dedicated to the usual lady-mag detritus. So I'm wondering if it's because Glamour employs one Carole Radziwill. More »
the good, the bad & the ugly
Glamour Women Of The Year Awards: In Which Pvt. Jessica Lynch's Gown Will Not Be Criticized
The Glamour "Women of the Year" Awards, held last night in London, is one of those hands-tying events in which non-professional gown-wearers leave themselves open to sartorial criticism. It's cruel and unusual punishment to riff on the choices of war heroes, political activists and those whose religious affiliations rather limit their red-carpet options, and frankly, I worried about today's GBU. But! Luckily, the event drew some rather less illustrious (but far more fashion-savvy) Women of the Year (plus three Spice Girls), to say nothing of the crop of random "television presenters" who seem to throng any British event. Disaster averted, after the jump. More »
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Jessica Simpson In Glamour: Did She Jinx It With Tony Romo, Or Was She Just Being "Honest"?
Ugh. The curse of the celebrity ladymag strikes again? Just a week after Glamour's June issue hit newsstands, cover girl Jessica Simpson has reportedly split with Dallas Cowboy Tony Romo. Although InStyle Weddings is perhaps the most famous example of why celebs should probably not publicize their private lives in periodicals, Simpson's Q&A with Glamour is notable for how much it focuses on her relationship — over 50% of the 2,500-word piece is devoted to talk of "Tony". ("I love your honesty, Jessica," writer Josh Patner tells Simpson after plying her with Chardonnay and getting some choice quotes about Romo. Yeah, Josh — you love it because it sells magazines!) And then, at the end of the interview, there's this gem: "This article could come out and Tony and I could be broken up." After the jump, the singer's most memorable quotes about the romance that, as of today, was just six days shy of hitting the six-month mark.
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the politics of style
NY Times Discovers That Women Like Hollywood And Washington Heavyweights
Today's New York Times 'Thursday Styles' section takes a minute to note that other, less high-brow publications have suddenly gotten interested in politics. In fact, they report that everyone from People to US Weekly to TMZ to Inside Edition are covering the race alongside less important stories like Britney's recent weight loss and Lauren Conrad's supposed sex tape. What gives? As the one Jezebel contributor who knows too much about politics, nothing about fashion and writes for Glamour magazine's relatively new political blog, Glamocracy (which should have been a case-in-point for the New York Times, but bygones), I have some thoughts that boil down to: women are complex and interesting creatures with varying interests and politics are important! More »
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Glamour's '50 Most Glamorous' Does Not Include Cover Model Jessica Simpson
Yes! The June Glamour is here, and, once again, it is full of useless features, like the reader-generated list of the "50 Most Glamorous Women." It's so refreshing to see a montage of the Patrick McMullan red carpet crossed-leg poses and pouts we've seen a million times before. Too bad that list excludes boobilicious cover model, Jessica Simpson, who just so happens to sit on the cover so unGlamourously. And why is it that the coverline about vagina normality rests so suspiciously close to Jessica's very own hoo-hah? Could this be a case of accidental art direction? After the jump, find out all the other really useful information inside the June Glamour, including some genius advice on how to make men worship you (hint: it involves breasts). More »
party report
The National Magazine Awards: 3 Hours Better Spent Reading Magazines
Cindi Leive, the editor-in-chief of Glamour and president of the American Society of Magazine Editors, is very attractive. She is very well-liked. She is, by all accounts — and I have more accounts of Leive's bedside manner than I ever asked for — a terribly nice, and intelligent, person. But Glamour is a essentially dumb and frivolous magazine and that fact, coupled with its nomination in the largest-circulation General Excellence category, probably inspired me to pay particular attention to her speech at last night's generally boring National Magazine Awards. And Cindi obliged my cynicism, opening the ceremony with comment to the effect of thanking all the ASME judges for all the many thousands of hours they put in reading magazines. "Thousands of hours of work," was, I believe, the phrase she used, followed by something to the effect of said "work" being performed, voluntarily, by very high-placed and important editors.
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"Eight Years Ago You Promised To Restore Dignity To The White House...Brilliant Appearance On Deal Or No Deal!
Gaiety! Bacchanalia! Food shortages! The White House Correspondents Dinner happened over the weekend. "One of the most hideous events I've ever been to," decreed Ruper Everett (of the cinematic gem The Next-Best Thing. Megan went. So did Heidi and Spencer and Pete Wentz. Megan recognized Donatella Versace, but not Ashlee Simpson. Lauren Conrad grew "awesome bangs." Glamocracy reigned, so to speak, and not just in Washington; I went to a lovely wedding! Prince performed at Coachella! And the rest of the world continued to fast and fester under the weight of wrongheaded economic policies that systematically placed risk of reckless neocons and Wall Street plutocrats on the shoulders of taxpayers, undermining capitalism's every last virtue and then some. That and Jeremiah Wright speaks, Bill Clinton's Obama hate is deconstructed, a brief discussion of the Laffer Curve, after the jump. More »
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Will Italian Vogue Break With Fashion Mag Tradition, Feature Black Models?
- Europeans are always more progressive than Americans. Rumor is, Italian Vogue may be producing a cover featuring only black models. [Fashionista]
- Oh. My. God. High School Musical and Hannah Montana-inspired Crocs, soon available at a store near you. [Yahoo]
- Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola will be the next faces of Louis Vuitton's "core values" campaign (the very same campaign in which Keith Richards agreed to participate in exchange for a LV monogrammed guitar case.) What do you think the Coppolas get out of this? An LV director's chair? An LV vinyard? [WWD, 1st item]
- "Boyfriend" jackets are big for spring. But Peter Som says the ones he designed for Bill Blass are inspired by Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama. [WSJ]
photoshop of horrors
Liz Hurley Loves Getting Airbrushed To Be "Thinner" & "Younger"
Another week, another airbrushing (mis)adventure. "Shooting bikinis is now my life, which as you can imagine is unmitigated hell," says Elizabeth Hurley, who has her own line of swimwear. "But if you signed on for the gig, sadly, you have to go and be jolly in a skimpy white bikini. So now I rely on nice photographers and a certain amount of retouching. I don't mind if you want to make me a bit thinner and a bit younger." In fact, Liz touches up her own snapshots — pictures of her husband, Arun Nayar and son Damian. "Everytime I download my holiday snaps I go over them," she claims. As always, Ms. Hurley is on-trend, because "airbrushing is here to stay," writes Nat Ives for Ad Age. Of Glamour magazine's treatment of America Ferrera, Ives claims "An actually ugly Betty just wouldn't be good for anyone's business, even if it might represent something relatable." But when it comes to magazine covers, is controversy is a good thing? More »
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How Does Fergie Stay So Regular? Only Glamour Knows For Sure!
Fergie! Why hello dear, you've been on an awful lot of our magazine covers lately! Is it because, being a former meth-addicted derelict, you make for such a candid, forthcoming interview? No! You're keeping "private life private" as they say, and good for you, by which I mean fuck you...well wait, perhaps I'm being unfair: there was the admission that you take shots of vinegar to aid digestion. Dropping them regularity bombs there, Fergieferg! ANYWAY, so this month's Glamour was about as good as a canister of Metamucil. My personal favorite part was the "How To Be Confident" package, which included a list of "things you would say to a baby that you should say to yourself." (Sample: "oooh what a cute squishy butt!") (Yes I wish I were kidding.) After the jump we go through all the lines to make them more "accurate." But mostly to amuse ourselves. More »
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