Reader complaints are finally being heard and taken seriously. Just two month after Vogue vowed to ban models who are underage and too skinny from their pages, Seventeen is responding to similar calls to action. Julia Blumh, a 14-year old girl from Maine was fed up with Photoshopped models littering the pages of fashion magazines [...]
Tumblr, a rapidly maturing microblogging platform recently passed 250 million page views per day. There are currently at least 61 publications active on the platform, including Newsweek, GQ, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The Economist, and the most followed, Vogue. These publications use Tumblr as a behind-the-scenes look at the magazine, an outlet for voicing opinions [...]
Magazines suffered a 10 percent ad page decline in the third quarter compared to the prior-year period, according to the Publishers Information Bureau, as pharmaceutical, automotive, technology and beauty advertisers significantly retrenched. WWD (Nov. 14, 2008)
“It’s been a long-standing tradition to photograph the new first lady. So needless to say, we are very interested in working with Mrs. Obama…” is how a Vogue spokesperson put it. WWD Media (Nov. 6, 2008)
For the second year in a row, Folio: Magazine conducted their Fall Fashion Mag Weigh Off, and discovered that the group had slimmed down somewhat, year over year. Vogue was the winner, weighing in at more than three pounds and containing 580 pages of advertising — 308 of them before the editor’s letter! Folio: (Sept. [...]
A sixteen-page spread in August’s Indian edition of Vogue featured luxury goods modeled by seemingly poor Indians, creating a juxtaposition some observers deemed offensive. Editor Priya Tanna said, “You have to remember with fashion, you can’t take it that seriously … We weren’t trying to make a political statement or save the world.” The New York [...]