Where: Les Archives de la Presse, Le Marais

51 rue de Archives

75003 Paris

Opening Hours:
Tuesday - Friday  10:30 – 7:00.
Monday – Saturday  2:00 – 7:00

Where was PETA back then? This copy of Vogue was 80 euros.

magazines on display

More Fur a la Balmain

Old Dior Ad, and Lanvin cosmetics ad.

But how do you feel?

P.S. the photos were re-shot from the magazine with my camera, as I don’t have the patience to scan anything.

xoxo

For the last two years print magazine are dying either from lack of readership, ad revenues or both, take examples like Domino, Business 2.o and Missbehave.

But I’ve got good news for all you mg hags – our  favorite print mags are fighting back! Or at least trying to.

Word from the grapevine is that :

“with a drop over 25% in ad revenue from print magazines last year, a group of prominent magazine publishers including Time Inc.,Hearst, Conde Nast, Meredith and Wenner Media are launching a jointly-funded $90 million dollar ad campaign to help convince readers, advertisers and shareholders of the “power of print.”  The 7-month campaign, developed with Y&R New York, is expected to roll out with lush color spreads in the May issues of nearly 100 print magazines and web sites with taglines such as “We Surf the Internet. We Swim in Magazines” and “Will the Internet Kill Magazines? Did Instant Coffee Kill Coffee?”

Well, well…we’ll see how that goes.

Lindsey Lohan and her line for Ungaro have been in the news a lot this week – and even here in Paris where she’s on the cover of Grazia Paris wearing a bright pink/fuchsia Ungaro dress, Gucci boots and a Louis Vuitton ring in true La-Lohan fashion.

While in the US many are still wondering what went wrong with this fashion collaboration that in the beginning seemed so promising – rumors have it that Lindsey is not getting paid in cash but in clothes and that well ” the line needed to be created rather quickly” which have many fashion critics thinking, wouldn’t have been better to wait a bit and create something a little bit more imaginative?

Hmmm – it took one messy disaster like this to show celebrity + designers doesn’t always equal success.

I’ve managed to scan a couple pages. Be warned my scanner is not that high tech so some of the images may be under par.

PS I’m so loving these studded Louboutin loafers!

She says “Motherhood is not for everyone — it is for me…but society thinks if you don’t have children, you’ve failed as a woman,” 40-year-old Hayek told the magazine. “You’ve got to be beautiful, smart, skinny, tall, rich, successful at your job, married to the right guy—and have genius children.”

Isn’t she lovely?

OMG! Am I the only offended by this ad? or Am I overreacting?
I’m really tired of fashion ads blurring the lines as to what is sexual violence and pornography in advertising photography. (Interesting factoid- back in college I learned that some of the most popular fashion photographers started out as porn photographers…hhmm)

1. Most of the images that sell stuff to women have them lying on their backs.
2. Looking emaciated, with a gaze on nothing in sight
3. Women are depicted as defenseless and overly sexualized

My street instincts tells me that anywhere else this would be seen as a gang bang, battery, train or whatever other term its called in your neck of the woods. But then again, my knowledge of fashion and advertising, is saying, “this is nothing new” – but does it make it right, if a 13 yea old girl flipping through her mom’s Vogue sees this what will she think?
1. its ok to be the center of attraction if you don’t resist
2. be sexually passive
3. being surrounded by numerous men in a compromising situation is ok

Can you see where this could lead a teen girl to think that these things are ok, if she’s constantly bombarded by these images?

Many designers and fashion brands have used over sexualized violent images of women to sell many products( or get the medias attention, which has worked here)

You know the old adage still holds true, “sex sells” …amm have you seen the marketing for Abercrombie and Fitch, and have you seen the clothes? I can’t see how wearing those ugly wrinkled basic tees would make a man look like a hunk. But simply put, the mind believes what the eye perceives. Its one thing I learned while studying advertising in grad school and working in publishing, “whatever causes a stir will sell”.

Case in point lets take a look at the most recent copy of Elle Magazine I have, are these images ok, or are they just as suggestive?:

CESARE PACIOTTI

DSQUARED

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1. Outblush
This website is the women’s version of popular men’s buying site Uncrate(which I Ab-love) , its really a fun place to discover cutsie things like Kate Spade Hayley Slip-Ons!

2. Frenchless in France
is a very cute personal blog about an American woman in paris france, she takes really great pictures and is filled with tid bits on her life in there.

3.Vice Magazine
VICE TREND REPORT is out and freaking funny!
If you’re reading this and not yet have a copy of the fashion Vice Issue, well, your out of luck, you’ll probably never get a copy because they go so fast. But if you desperately want one, do what I did a while back; bribe the cashier at your local American Apparel (ok so she felt bad for me and gave me her last copy because I couldn’t wait for Vice to send copies to the house, with photos from my baby, Mr. Jahaute…☺)

4. Beauty+Fashion Tech – A wonderfully new and creative blog that has handy and helpful information on tons of beauty and fashion products

4. The Ghetto Fashionista
has all the news about this weeks Oscars After Parties! Simply because you know you cant get enough images of your favorite celebrity and their fashion faux pas

5. Fashion for Nerds
Is a very misleading name for this website, simply because non-nerds need to be reading this witty commentary too! Like them giving fashion advice on what to avoid…seriously good and funny.

6. Five Solid Peices of Advice - MARTHA BECK’S FIVE BEST PIECES OF ADVICE from Orpah’s group, gives candid advice we can all use.

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