I am crazy, CRAZY, about fashion and (life)style magazines and it is a love of the kind that I
have a very hard time letting them go (the collection, who lives in both Sweden and here is never ending, and it's space consuming and most of all, heavy!). I wanna show them off, like you do a gorgeous partner or new shoes and I am not afraid to talk about them or spend my last money that month on getting that special issue that I just CAN NOT live without.
I subscribe to three magz and I regularly buy
two or three other ones every month (or every time a new issue comes out in some cases). I take
several days to go through each and every single one of them, reading every page at least once. Sometimes I get fantastically inspired and happy whilst other times, which sadly have happened with US
Vogue too many times the last two-three years and I'll explain why in some later posts, cause it needs to be discussed now when it's almost 2017).
I
also save them, well not all of them but basically every issue of
Vogue AU, US and UK along with well chosen issues of
Lula,
Nylon,
Dazed,
Harper's Bazaar AU,
V,
W and
Another magazine, and keep the most gorgeous ones on display in the front room.
This might sound
excessive but that is how I want it. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Just looking at them inspire me to write and be creative. So, it really
doesn't hurt anyone (but, perhaps, the other person living here, who
gets yelled at every time he might touch or trip over one of them, poor
thing. But he should, really, watch where he puts his feet, hands, cups
and wet towels. That is *not* too much to ask.) but instead make *me*
happy and also creates conversation with anyone entering my fashion
filled digs. It has yet to fall on deaf ears and blind eyes. Every
single person who has been here have asked about my glossy babies, asked
to look through them and also taken a keen interest in them.It's extra
interesting since I have mostly male friends here and they usually don't
fall head over heels and devour this type of magazine, but here...they
do! Every single one of them. Without fail. So when they leave here they
all know why the September issues of
Vogue US are placed where they
are and why they are so important, that
Vogue AU is my unicorn and my absolute favourite and to get a hold of some of the issues takes as much effort and money as writing an essay and then pay for it being proof read by Joan Collins (kind of), that Drew
Barrymore isn't 'only' a little sex object (grrr) who shakes her ass in
Charlie's Angels but also a couture queen and an edgy and versatile cover star, that
Michelle Williams is flawless in my eyes and so is Mia Wasikowska (whom
they rarely know who it is before entering my castle) and most
importantly, why one simply does not touch my magazines before asking
me, and quite possibly not even then!
Anyway, my living room will be covered in another post because, believe me, it deserves it's own post! I
thought I was gonna share my favourite babies, that is the ones I get to
be a new caregiver to every month. If you haven't given these a chance, or even knew they existed (it has happened, more than once) you should definitely do so at least once!
The three glossy love's that enters my world via the mailbox every time a new issue comes out are these:
*Vogue US
The flagship, the mother of all
Vogue's. However bad this magazine have gotten lately it is a must to read it every month. I sometimes don't keep and save (oh the horror) every single issue but I wouldn't
skip a single issue, even though the cover makes me cringe (something I will mention in several posts very soon...). Mail box-worthy!
*Lula Magazine
Cute, original fashion magazine with cool guest editors and writers. Both Kirsten Dunst and Mia
Wasikowska have been both at least once. I'm getting this baby, fully called
Lula - girl of my dreams, in my mail box 2 times a year. I wish they'd extend that to at least 4 or 6 issues.
*Nylon Magazine
Funky, original, young, experimental fashion. I love this magazine, always have and always will. My first subscription as an adult after Swedish
Elle and
Cosmopolitan. This glossy little perfect piece of pages is colourful and so packed with pictures it could make a depressed frog happy. I will forever <3 this magazine and it's twist and turns, especially after the cover (Winona Ryder, right) which yet again proves that
Nylon magazine is a leader, not a follower.
Magazines I buy every month (I should subscribe, really but in some cases I just pick it off the shelves when I see it and in others it's too darn expensive. Vogue and Harper's Australia - I'm talking to you!)
* Vogue UK
The
natural choice when you live in the UK. Slightly larger, thicker and
glossier than it's US sister and 8 times out of ten more thrilling than
the one from across the pond, even though the US one is the mother of
all the others and all the
Vogues around the world take after said one
when it comes to cover and substance to a certain extent.
Vogue UK did
not, thank you very much, follow in the
American's, and six other
countries, footsteps this last September by placing Kendall (yawn)
Jenner (oh, please) on the cover.Thank you for that. This version has
the right amount of pages, evenly spread over the year, most of the
time. It's glossy, have funny columns and European fashion. If it were
slightly less heavy it'd be geat. Now I'll stick with Very Good.
* Vogue Australia
This
magazine is my all time favourite fashion magazine, all categories. It
is basically perfect. Well, lately I have seen Kim Kardashian, Kendall
Jenner (this one is simply too hard to resist for any magazine in the
world it seems. Like, 'screw credibility, we want money'- attitude. It
makes me lose hope in 'real' fashion reporting and the case of *real*
models vs celebs and It-girls on the covers. Not good in any way.),
Selena Gomez and Victoria Beckham (ok she is a designer now so she may
pass...one time, not three, which is the case here) on the cover of this
bible. The great thing about
Vogue AU's covers have always been that,
roughly, 10 out of 12 issues per year are graced by actual models. That
is what often sets this (along with
Vogue Nippon (Japan) and Korea apart
from the other ones. I say often/mostly here, the Spanish and Paris
version also do their fair share of placing actual models where they
should be, on the covers and in the fashion spreads!
Vogue AU almost
always uses models in their spreads, which I love and they just as often
show new designers, up and coming models and low key stores and brands
that aren't, yet' over exposed and over the hill.
The writing is
just fabulous, without being pretentious, and almost never boring. It's
simply a joy to read this magazine every month.
When it comes to
it's exterior (cover girl aside) it is not as thick as the US and UK
version, but instead more stable, has thicker paper with just the right
amount of gloss to it and is slightly bigger in both height and length
than the other
Vogue's.
*Harper's Bazaar Australia
Same as with
Vogue AU - so much better covers, quality and just general originality, individuality
and consistency. With some exception (uhm, like putting Hailey Baldwin on the cover last month. what the...?) this magazine is a fantastic little fashion report in a beautiful package. Also, models, models...super models!
Magazines I buy whenever I get the chance to get a hold of it, when one of my favourite girls is on the cover or simply since I know the magazine will be of great content.
*Elle South Africa
My favourite
Elle,
along with Australia and Canada. I started reading it when I stayed in
South Africa for two months way back and it stuck on me.
Inspiring and
packed with info on new designers, models (black models! we can never
have enough women of ethnicity on the cover of fashion magazines!) and
just cool things that the other
Elle's don't write about. Also, they have the Africa Issue once a year which addresses what is happening all over the continent.
*Another Magazine
Always a fun read and every now and then Mia Wasikowska (right) or Michelle Williams graces the cover.
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*Elle Canada
More fun and with cooler cover girls than it's neighbour in the south
. Has a wider variety of models
and they have had Sudanese supermodel Alek Wek(below, left) on the cover, which adds huge bonus. As is putting plus size queen Ashley Graham (below, right)on the cover of the October issue this year. One can hope more magazines follow.
*Vogue Korea and Vogue Nippon
Just lovely all over, both of them. Just look at these covers (L: Korea, R: Japan.)
That is pure fashion and how can one NOT want to buy these magazines?! Even though I can't read 90% of the Vogue magazines published today, the gorgeous pictures speak for themselves. Also, ethnic women, again, big bonus! Asian models are in minority and I just love how
Vogue Korea use them in every single issue. Also a frequent use of 'real' supermodels. Another big bonus. Could I only read the text they would be up there with the Australian version. Same goes for the Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish and Turkish versions. Oh so much beauty!
*Dazed & Confused Magazine
Cool, funky and huge. Not a favourite but when the cover stories are right it's well...covered.
