A publicist emailed me recently and asked me if she could send me this book and I said "Sure, as long as I can make fun of it from the point of view of a married person who is literally twice that age." "Sounds interesting!" she replied diplomatically, and sent me the book anyway.
It's pretty obvious that magazines for teenage girls are just grooming schools adult lady-mags—funneling impressionable teens neatly into the image-obsessed arms of Elle and Cosmo. I mean, okay, whatever. As much as it bugs me that women's "entertainment," from childhood, is institutionally wedded to this weird…
Tavi Gevinson thinks Seventeen magazine has a body image problem — and she is not mincing words.
Seventeen has at last, in an oblique kind of way, responded to the controversy sparked in April when a 14-year-old from Maine started an online petition calling out the magazine's over-use of Photoshop. That petition, started by a middle school student named Julia Bluhm, quickly went viral and was signed by over 84,000 …
My friends and I read Seventeen when we were tweens, but moved onto more sophisticated reading material like Jane and Cosmopolitan before we entered high school because there were only so many boy band profiles and "52 ways to have the best first kiss ever" articles we could stomach. (But not, apparently, too many "52…
Seventeen editor Ann Shoket met yesterday with Julia Bluhm, the 14-year-old reader who started an online petition to ask the magazine to curb its use of Photoshop. Although the magazine accepted the petition and its nearly 25,000 signatures when Bluhm went to deliver it in person yesterday, it appears Seventeen has no…
Can a 13-year-old girl convince Seventeen Magazine to commit to printing one "unaltered" photo spread per month? Maybe, actually! Julia Bluhm, the teenager behind the Change.org petition asking the magazine to showcase "regular girls that look like me in a magazine that's supposed to be for me," has collected almost 9,000…
Young people are now free to pursue a higher education without suffering from the crippling fear that they might gain a little weight. Researchers have proven that most college students don't gain the "Freshmen 15" — and that Seventeen is not your cool older sister. The magazine is more like the obnoxious older sister…
The new online magazine Hardly aims to be the next Sassy — but can that mag's marked-up Chuck Taylors really be filled?
She was sullen and Photoshopped for Elle, but on August's Seventeen, RiRi is smiling and gorgeous. Additional images below! [The Life Files, Seventeen]
Earlier this month, we wrote about eighteen-year-old Jamie Keiles's project — following all the advice in the June/July Seventeen. Now she's done — and we chatted with her about makeup, advertorials, and how the Internet gives her hope.
Jamie Keiles is following all the advice in Seventeen magazine, and she's doing so in a hilarious and critical way. She and a crop of other teen phenoms — teenoms — are giving us hope for the younger generation.
This changes everything. Do we know Franca Sozzani's stance on smizing? [Twitter]
Was your prom dress ugly and embarrassing? Judging from Seventeen Prom, girls today have it even worse. Maybe teens don't mind wearing grotesque gowns anyhow — judging from the advertising, prom is really about what happens when the dress comes off.
Slimmed thighs, whittled waists, smoothed skin: Digitally altered women were de rigueur in the 00s. There were many, many Photoshop Of Horrors images to choose from, but these are the 15 most egregious examples of image retouching in this decade.
At left: Seventeen editor Ann Shoket. At right: NBC medical analyst Dr. Nancy Snyderman. At issue: Girls who cut.
There's a neon color in use that my scanner won't pick up, but this is ANTM winner Teyona on the (back) cover of Seventeen. Thoughts? A few images from the interior shoot after the jump.
Does your boyfriend have "puffy clown hair" or "a lazy fashion sense"? Then check out Seventeen's gallery of made-over boyfriends, guys successfully transformed into men worthy of their girlfriends' love.
