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Did Allure Plagiarize Creative "10-Minute Hair" Angle From Glamour?
Today the Wall Street Journal ran an interesting piece about how large companies like Johnson & Johnson love the magazine Allure because its editors give their products all this free advertising even though they already advertise, which in turn makes them so gracious they buy even more advertising. Um...we're glad this magazine is serving someone's purpose! Because shit has been dead boring ever since that story about that killer Brazilian hair-straightening technique. The March issue may just be the ne plus ultra of this trend, although we should probably make sure we know what "ne plus ultra" means before throwing that term around. Oh, who cares? We're back with Cover Lies, in which editorial assistant Maria-Mercedes Lara and I rewrite the cover lines of a major magazine to more accurately reflect the cruel radiance within. More »
After Allure magazine ran that story in its October issue on the new hair-straightening technique out of Brazil that uses crazy, dangerous amounts of formaldehyde, there was a spike in women wanting the service. Says Allure editor-in-chief Linda Wells: "It's so illogical that people would willfully pursue something that they know is dangerous... We're not talking about whether red wine raises or lowers cholesterol. We're talking about formaldehyde, which is a known carcinogen." Um, people still smoke cigarettes, don't they? [WWD]
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'Allure' Editor Linda Wells: Determined, Impatient, Logical
How in God's name does a magazine like Allure survive year after Creme de la Mer-laden year? Well, besides lots of quid pro quo between advertisers and beauty editors, the continued durability of the magazine owes a lot to Linda Wells, who went from being a Connecticut-born, über-blonde beauty/style reporter for the NY Times to a 5th Avenue-residing, über-blonde editor of Si Newhouse's paean to everything pretty, polished, or associated with Patricia Wexler. After the jump, graphologist Sheila Kurtz analyzes Wells' tomato-red scribble (try the aptly-named Fifth Avenue from Essie Cosmetics, $8, to get the look at home!) and finds that behind the fine lines and plumped-up curves lurks a judgmental, direct, suprisingly-deep thinker who is most definitely set in her WASP-y ways. More »
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Rihanna Falls Prey To Anna Wintour's Hair-Gemony
We've been all a-scratch over what the hell was so damn irksome about Teen Vogue Intern Diana's Friday blog dispatch on attending the Venus Celebrity Legs Of A Goddess Event with R&B chanteuse Rihanna. Perhaps it was:- The name "Celebrity Legs Of A Goddess" (Someone was paid to come up with!)
- The fact that the Venus "Celebrity Legs Of A Goddess" event was held at NYC's Metropolitan Pavilion, where one can host a wedding reception for $135 to $175 a head.
- The fact that $135 to $175 a head is considered a really good deal for a wedding reception in New York.
- The fact that we even know that.
- The knowledge that if Intern Diana is really really lucky she will, like the "bevy of professional photographers" she found herself amongst, find a job enabling her to continue attending such events after she graduates from Duke.
- The bubble guns they hold in this picture, perhaps that they symbolize the infantilization of adults borne by market consumerism. Or just that they annoy us.
off with her head
Anna Wintour Not Exactly A Style Icon To 'Allure' Magazine
Poor Anna Wintour. First there was the news that recently-convicted fashion journalist Peter Braunstein wanted to kill her and now, one of the Vogue editor's own sister publications has essentially deemed her irrelevant. In a four-page feature on "the bob" in the June issue of Allure, readers are treated to how-to-wear it advice from celeb stylists and a photo gallery of famous femmes with the sheared-off style. But among the featured "A-list" models (Evangelista, Campbell), starlets (Bosworth, Tatou) and silver-screen icons (Dunaway, Brooks) with the blunt haircut there is no Anna to be found. More »
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