Newsflash: Magazines Continue to Struggle

Get out!

Seriously though numbers came out for the first quarter of 2011 publishing year and only VOGUE had an increase (12.7 % for the year so far). Let that sink in for a minute before I drop another bomb.


Critics are saying this March 2011 issue is why VOGUE avoided the otherwise universal fate:

Behold the power of Lady Gaga. Her March cover shot by Mario Testino pulled in the youngin's known as little monsters by the dozens and drove VOGUE's sale figures sky high (the issue sold over 100,000 copies more than March 2010).


I'm not gonna critique the cover or the star or anything of such, but I will say this a new generation of stars are emerging and the youth vote counts (which is surprising considering how often we hear they read everything online) so let's see how other fashion mags respond to the numbers (Glenda Bailey, of course, just wants to permanently slap Jennifer Aniston on the cover. Oh Glenda, always out of touch)

DON'T: Computer Animated Beloved Cartoons are not Models (or Street Walkers)

Maybe I'm a bitter old man crushed to see a cartoon of my youth soiled by CGI or a once golden fashion magazine resort to stunt casting but this leaked image of Smurfette in Lanvin, Marc Jacobs and other Fall 2011 accessories makes me sad

It looks about as real, I guess, as any other fashion magazine model post-Photoshop, but, as Michael Kors would say, I question the taste level. These looks are more Julia Roberts' outfits before Richard Gere takes her off the streets and I'm sorry Smurfette was not three apples tall for any blowjob advantage!

Another step into the unemployment line, Glenda (although I enjoy the subtle wink to your Hogatha nickname)

Glenda Bailey Finally Getting the Boot?

Could it be that after years of making a muck of the once storied Harper's Bazaar, Glenda Bailey is finally getting the ax?

"Hogatha", as we refer to her at the M+G household (see: Smurfs Villian), has let the magazine go down the drain in both content and ad dollars and Hearst ain't having it no more according to rumours swirling around the Twitter and blog-a-sphere.

Not to be a "I told you so" and all, but here's hopin' these rumors prove true! Fresh blood is desperartly needed at Bazaar.