Blood and Guts in High School: How Seventeen Made 'Traumarama'
As a teen, you could have read the wholesome Seventeen magazine for a lot of reasons. Maybe it was the tasteful fashion…
Reading Teen Mags With a Teen
“These are before my time. Like, I don’t know even what this is, Young & Modern.”
How White Are the Women's Magazine Covers of 2016 So Far?
Women’s magazines, like the print business overall, have a notoriously poor history of foregrounding people of color,…
Sequins and Off-the-Shoulder Sleeves: All the Hottest Prom Looks of 1994, According to Seventeen
Dig out your blue eyeshadow, your body glitter and your Aqua Net, because it’s time for PROM WEEK on Pictorial.
How Artist Erica Magrey Turned '90s YM and Seventeen into Living Art
For Erica Magrey, a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist, teen-girl magazines from the '80s and '90s were bibles, as they…
Ansel Elgort Opens Up About Being Amazing
Yo, big news: Ansel Elgort is officially 21 years old! Also, he's still talking a lot!
Hearst Magazines Is Going After Every Last Lady Millennial Reader
In a surprising development (at least it's surprising for those who didn't catch wind of the "reorganizing" Hearst did…
Seventeen Magazine Used to Have a Different Approach to Navajo
Interesting. Seventeen, back in the day, and a more recent iteration. The times, they are a-changing.
Prom Dresses Are Especially Hideous This Year
It's Prom season, and if the dresses seen in the ads and editorials of the new issues of Teen Prom and Seventeen are…
Elle and Seventeen Fought Over Miley Cyrus and Elle Won
In the publishing world, Miley Cyrus is a hot ticket, so much so that magazines are fighting over her. This month, Elle …
Married Thirtysomethings Test-Drive Seventeen's Ultimate Guide to Guys
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…
Why Does Seventeen Magazine Have a BMI Calculator? And Why Does It Say that Being Underweight Is Healthy?
It's pretty obvious that magazines for teenage girls are just grooming schools adult lady-mags—funneling impressionable…
Tavi Gevinson Says Reading Seventeen Made Her Feel Bad About Her Body
Tavi Gevinson thinks Seventeen magazine has a body image problem — and she is not mincing words.
Seventeen Magazine's New Photoshop Policy Is the Same As The Old Photoshop Policy
Seventeen has at last, in an oblique kind of way, responded to the controversy sparked in April when a 14-year-old from…
College Girls Are Reading Seventeen Magazine
My friends and I read Seventeen when we were tweens, but moved onto more sophisticated reading material like Jane and C…
Seventeen Says Thanks But No Thanks To Teen's Photoshop Petition
Seventeen editor Ann Shoket met yesterday with Julia Bluhm, the 14-year-old reader who started an online petition to…
Teenage Girls Want Seventeen to Chill Out on the Photoshopping
Can a 13-year-old girl convince Seventeen Magazine to commit to printing one "unaltered" photo spread per month? Maybe,…
Freshmen 15 Doesn't Exist, Was Invented By Seventeen
Young people are now free to pursue a higher education without suffering from the crippling fear that they might gain a…
The New Sassy? Hardly
The new online magazine Hardly aims to be the next Sassy — but can that mag's marked-up Chuck Taylors really be filled?