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The Week That Was

This Week We Defended Fashion And Dismissed Deluded Ladymags

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6:00 PM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By Jessica
2,560 views, 7 comments

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“It's Fun To Be Seventeen", Unless, Of Course, You're Seventeen

It’s been a while since I’ve read Seventeen, but I assumed not much would have changed. Through the ages, teen girls have always needed the magazine to rehash the same stories about which jeans look best on “curvy” figures and assuage their fears about vaginal odor. But this wise “older sister” has turned abusive of late. Even though makeup, boys, and eating disorders are still the topics at hand, the August issue has a pretty relentless message of “everyone is judging you constantly, so listen to us or suffer the consequences.” After the jump, a guide to the panic attack-inducing world of the adolescent female, as seen through the eyes of Seventeen editors. More »

1:00 PM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By Intern Margaret
17,203 views, 188 comments

Latest by n/a: I just saw that issue today and I read the whole magazine. I was absolutely appalled at it. I wrote my own opinion on that issue, but used a few comments some of the repliers here made. It's like a rant/comedy more »

MagHag Is Blake Lively unhappy about her Seventeen cover? According to the New York Post, her "camp" is "not thrilled." Why ever not? Gotta love the huge smile, really windswept tresses and "perfect hair" cover line. (Was the photo studio in a wind tunnel?) [Page Six]

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You Wanna Be On Top Check it out: It's ANTM Cycle 10 winner Whitney Thompson's photos (taken by noted fashion photographer Nigel Barker) and interview from the forthcoming July issue of Seventeen. It's kinda great that the "full figure" girl won the cycle that featured a bikini shoot, so they weren't able to hide her body behind ponchos and shit. What's bizarre is that Whitney claims that she's a size 14, but with skinny arms, a flat belly, and what looks to be boobs not much bigger than a B cup, we don't see how she's anything larger than an 8 or a 10. But whatevs, congrats, Whitney! (Click image for the rest of the pics and the interview.)

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tweenage wasteland

Cosmo Girl Has The Spiciest -- And Smartest -- Advice When It Comes To Teen Sex

Down Under, two of the major teen magazines, rivals Dolly and Girlfriend, are banding together to fight government suggestions that the magazines come with "audience age recommendations," because of the sexually-explicit nature of their question-and answer-sections. According to the Daily Telegraph, "Tasmanian Senator Stephen Parry said he was concerned readers as young as 11 were writing in for answers to questions on anal and oral sex." (Because if they don't read the magazine, their questions will magically disappear, right?) Dolly editor Gemma Crisp told a government inquiry, "We see it as a service. It's our responsibility to provide the correct information rather than them (readers) saying to their 15-year-old friend, 'my boyfriend wants me to do this, how do I deal with it?'" We decided to see what kind of advice the American teen magazines are giving their readership. A look at sex coverage on the websites of Teen Vogue, Cosmo Girl, Elle Girl, YM and Seventeen, after the jump. More »

3:00 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Jessica
12,075 views, 114 comments

Latest by n/a: My mum used to hate me reading teen magazines, I once got caught reading Just Seventeen and my mum went ballistic and grounded me. I was about 15 at the time, but she was very protective. I wasn't even allowed more »

maghag

Heroes' Hayden Panettiere Is An American Everywoman

Even though Hayden Panettiere turned 18 last August, we're wondering, is the Heroes starlet a teenager or an adult? We ask only because Hayden is on the cover of three different Hearst girly magazines for April 2008: There's Cosmopolitan ("Fun • Fearless • Female"), which, according to demographics, has a medium reader age of 31.5. But Hayden is also on the cover of Seventeen ("It's Fun To Be Seventeen" — median reader age, 16.5), and that magazine's seasonal spin-off, Seventeen Prom (median age, um, Jessica McClintock?). Are we supposed to believe that both high school sophomores and career women in their thirties want to buy into what Hayden — and Hearst — is selling?* After the jump, we take a closer look at the differences in how Hayden is presented to the ladymag-loving public. More »

2:00 PM on Thu Mar 6 2008
By Anna
7,966 views, 76 comments

Latest by lauralk3: @braak: i myself have never found arpmits sexually appealing. maybe i missed some sort of memo when i forgot to read cosmo? more »

snap judgment

ANTM Winner Saleisha's Seventeen Cover And Spread

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Cosmo Editor: "My Sense Of A Good Cover Is If I Want To Lick It"

A thorough piece in today's WWD is chock-full of juicy nuggets about how magazine editors create a cover that will inspire you, a potential reader, to spend your hard-earned cash on their efforts. In the '80s, Dick Stolley, founding editor of People, created "Stolley's Law Of Covers", which you already know, even if you don't know you know: "Young is better than old. Pretty is better than ugly. Rich is better than poor. Movies are better than music. Music is better than television. Television is better than sports... And anything is better than politics." Kind of like looking for a date! Of course, what works for each magazine is slightly different. For Cosmopolitan, the young lady on the cover had better get "the girls" out. "It's not about big breasts like it used to be. It's just about showing off your breasts, whether they're double As or whatever," says editor in chief Kate White. Hear that, IBTC? You, too, can be on Cosmo! (And if you look at a gallery of Cosmo covers, and you'll see almost all of the women are touching one thigh, directing attention "down there." My crotch! Let me show you it!) More »

12:00 PM on Fri Jan 4 2008
By dodai
3,773 views, 49 comments

Latest by n/a: I got a sex post, which site do I submit to? more »

Oh, prom hair! So much fun! I, for one, though I was too cool for my suburban Southern public high school when I opted for a vintage Art Deco dress and marcelled hair (embarrassing photo after the jump). But most gals, lets face it, go for big hair. Really big hair. And according to a little unscientific research done by Fashion Week Daily, Seventeen editor-in-chief Ann Shoket had the biggest hair of all the editors-in-chief the website could wrangle. (See photo at left.) [Fashion Week Daily]

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conversational jewelry

Atoosa Rubenstein: Don't You Just Hang On Her Every Word?

Atoosa Rubenstein. Have you been DYING to know what's going on with everyone's fave "Alpha Kitty" her since she broke free from the confines of her job editing Seventeen and went feral?? Well, surely you know some disenfranchised teen with a big dream who has been DYING to know what she's got up her poufy sleeve. Right? She's big with the teens! Right? She had that whole MTV show , yes? "I left [Seventeen] because I realized that I was stepping farther and farther away from the journey that was meaningful to me," she says. Well, um, the New York Times exposes her New Media plan for conquering the girliverse and it... involves drag queens! Drag queens are hot right now, right? More »

9:30 AM on Thu Oct 4 2007
By Moe
2,260 views, 30 comments

Latest by magmalux: Confession: I watched four of her Alpha Kitty videos the other day and only found the one with the transexual fashion designer the least bit interesting. Each of them feels like a really long and awkward commercial for a show more »

rag trade

Friends Of 'Vogue': Too Emaciated And Weak To Hand-Carry Their Own Copies?

  • Would you like a limited-edition carrying case with your ninety-pound September Vogue? Yeah, sorry, you only get one of you're an "FOV" — which we think is sort of like being an "SOB." [The Fashion Informer]
  • Did you know Sting named his daughter "Fuschia"? She just mutilated her Dior gown. "Galliano would kill me," she says. Oh, we'd so happily do it for him. [WWD, 3rd item]
  • Sean "Diddy" Combs will be airing the launch of his newest fragrance live on YouTube on Wednesday night. And yes: there will be liveblogging. [WWD, 4th item]
  • Cavalli For H&M pix here. [Sassybella]
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10:30 AM on Tue Sep 18 2007
By Jennifer
1,899 views, 4 comments

Latest by Snakeophelia: I took the September Vogue with me to the recovery room after my surgery a month ago. It was nice for my friend to have it to leaf through as she waited a couple of hours for my brain and more »

between the covers

'Justine' Magazine: Just Because We Haven't Heard Of It Doesn't Mean It Can't Rot Tween Souls

Just because we've never heard of teen magazine Justine before doesn't mean that we didn't want to learn all sorts of things about it from the good peeps at MediaPost's 'Magazine Rack'. After all, we were once teenage girls. And while our parents made YM forbidden — they said it was demeaning to women — we did pore over many a Seventeen. Which we think we stopped reading by the time we were, oh, 13? [What about 'Sassy'? -Ed.] Anyway, the times haven't changed much. In fact, if anything, the current crop of teen mags is even worse than the ones from the mid-80s, as everything one needs to know about Justine can be wrapped up in one terse statement:
[C]rap transcends generational differences
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5:30 PM on Wed Aug 15 2007
By Jennifer
2,231 views, 30 comments

Latest by Aleeshie: When I was eleven, I longed to have a subscription to Seventeen or YM like all of my friends, but my dad got me a subscription to Sassy instead because it seemed "more positive"! I hated Sassy, though, because it more »

rag trade

Now That Sarah Silverman Is On Gap's Payroll, You 'Really' Won't Be Able To Resist Those Khakis...

  • Sarah Silverman is going to be in ads for The Gap. What are the odds this genius plan was hatched in a corporate marketing meeting during which someone employed the term "edgy"? [WWD, sub req'd]
  • Menswear designer Thom Browne: Now bringing his shrunken jacket, cropped pant stylings to (lord help us) a womenswear line. Ugh. [WWD, sub req'd]
  • How cute! Readers of Seventeen and CosmoGIRL! can "connect" with the mags' advertisers through a special website! If only we could have developed a deep, personal, virtual relationship with J.C. Penney when we were in middle school! Jealous! [WWD, 3rd item]
  • Hubert Givenchy? A little bitter! The retired designer says that "Fashion is over!" because the whole business now revolves around making giant, ugly handbags. Also bitter? One of our favorite fashion bitches, resigned Bill Blass designer Michael Vollbracht, who says, "When making big handbags is the only thing that will save your business, then designing clothes is finished!" [LizSmith]
  • Diane von Furstenberg: Likes to hike! [Vogue UK]
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11:49 AM on Tue Jul 24 2007
By Jennifer
2,206 views, 18 comments

Latest by Ell: Wow - I suddenly feel really insecure about my sense of humor! Sarah Silverman is one of my favorite comedians, not because I think offensive things are funny by default--I think the combination of self-importance and total cluelessness of her more »

rag trade

Tom Ford Knows All The Words To "Last Dance"

  • Don't be deceived by Tom Ford's manivorous, cooler-than-thou 'tude: The guy had no friends in college and loves Donna Summers. [Vogue UK]
  • "Babe-sta" is a new word being used to describe a new trend whereby parents in downtown NYC dress their babies in ironic and/or Gwen Stefani-inspired T-shirts. And then the babies throw up all over them. [WWD, sub req'd]
  • Kate Moss and Pete Doherty are the faces of Roberto Cavalli women's and men's lines for fall, respectively, since they're so "poetic, creative and wild." Which is exactly how we feel after 40 lines of coke. [Sassybella]
  • According to the analogy-making forces at Women's Wear Daily, when it comes to the luxury market and teens, small bags are cigarettes and fake bags are pot. [WWD, sub req'd]
  • That said, teens would rather buy a venti light mocha Frappuccino from Starbucks than a Coach bag. [WWD, sub req'd]
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10:17 AM on Mon Jun 11 2007
By Jennifer
345 views, 5 comments

Latest by lovely nigerienne: I have a major thing for Tom Ford. I just love a well-dressed man. He always looks nice but in nothing outrageous and he doesn't look like he tries too hard. more »

avril lavigne

Anatomy Of A Celebrity Maturation: Avril Lavigne Grows Up, Buys More, Sounds The Same

If there is one thing we are more soooooo sick of than Avril Lavigne giving interviews about how she is soooooo sick of everyone talking about how she is this, like, tomboy in Chuck Taylors and suspenders because she is suuuuuch a feminine grown-up now (and p.s. Mark Jacobs and Proenza whatever and every other cool designer pls send her stuff she is a perfect sample size!!! maybe skinnier!!!) it is probably Gwen Stefani giving interviews to the same effect. Because, like, aren't there enough makeover shows in the world already that we don't need our manufactured pop idols spending valuable studio time disseminating the important message that "maturity" actually equates to "buying clothes you can't afford"?? More »

2:06 PM on Thu Apr 12 2007
By Moe
270 views, 1 comment

Latest by miss_maggie: What perplexes me is the general media's inability to see through Avril's carefully-constructed faux-punk; the girl is as pre-fab as Britney, but nowhere near as entertaining. And where the hell does she even *get* all that Hot Topic junk? more »