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Harper's Bazaar

Newest Review: ... other than a flat surface. My main complaint though is that of those 190 pages around 170 are adverts. Whilst I accept that ... more

... marketing is a main aim of these publications the advertising in Bazaar is excessive. In the February issue, from the cover one has to wade through 9 double spread adverts and a single page ad before you get to the contents - that's 19 wasted pages. From the contents page there are then 16 pages of ads before you get to the first piece of content, the "Editor's Letter". Real content is very limited. There are just 8 articles which have more than one page of text and a couple of those are rather piecemeal...more

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Harper's Bazaar: Bizarre Bazaar = Jumble Sale (785 words)
by cmh4135 - written on 18/01/08 (Very useful, 107 readings)
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I've never really been one for celebrity or fashion magazines, not because I'm not interested in the topics, but because they rarely show any depth and there's nothing to get into and read. Fashion items tend to be aimed at everyone other than me and I feel I've wasted my money every time. The upper market publications such as Tatler, Vogue and Elle tend to have a little more in them in terms of reading material but to my mind they're more coffee-table trash than anything else. Unfortunately, Harper's Bazaar can join them in the coffee-table rubbish pile, soon to be swept into the bin. Billed as one of the world's most influential fashion titles ...

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