Pretend glamour (Vogue)

Member Name: spacelamb

Product:	Vogue
Date:	26/01/01 (38 review reads)
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Advantages: pure fantasy, fashion photography

Disadvantages: more than a little pretentious

I used to be so in awe of Vogue. Just of buying it! - it had such a glamourous and expensive air. I still get a kind of thrill out of buying it, because it is so completely unreal. For as long as you're reading it you can pretend that you live in a completely different world where spending a month's wages on a handbag is a perfectly rational thing to do. There must be so few people who actually live the lifestyle of the typical 'Vogue' bird, but thousands of people still buy it - it's pure escapism.

It's also quite a laugh really - the quality of the actual journalism is abysmal (probably because the writers' heads are so far up their asses they can't see their computer screens properly). But the fashion pages are beautifully produced, if a bit inaccessible, and they are spot-on at predicting trends a couple of months in advance. It all depends what you buy fash mags for I guess - to get ideas for things you actually want to buy yourself, or to see what 'fashion' as an industry is doing. Personally I have never bought anything I have seen in Vogue, but I have certainly translated images into their charity-shop-and-Hennes-form.

The priciest of the glossies, I wouldn't recommend Vogue unless you really are a die-hard clothes freak, or to drift away if £3.10 seems more reasonable than a week in the Maldives...

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