Fashion Magazines – Keeping In Touch With The Latest Trends
Published November 26, 2011 | 
Most magazine racks feature a wide array of fashion magazines for both men and women. These publications keep their readers abreast of all the latest trends in fashion capitals such as New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Milan. Their columns offer up-to-date counsel on wardrobe selection, hairstyles, makeup, fitness, health, and even intimate relationships.
Fashion magazines often aim at providing a glimpse at what is currently trendy in the fashion industry. These trends are usually extremely expensive. Following fashion can allow the readers to imitate it with in their own budget. Certain elements of fashion trends can be captures for less money.
These magazines can be useful in many different ways. From quick dinners, recipes, make up and beauty hints, work out routines to relationship advise, all these can be found in most magazines. Being devoted to the entire person and not just what they are wearing is the basis of most of them.
Adult males and females both have the chance to discover magazine subscriptions for fashion magazines tailored to their interests. This is true regardless of whether their style is flashy and glamorous, or more conservative and level-headed. A wide selection of styles and fashions are displayed throughout a large assortment of obtainable periodicals.
Many people criticize magazines of fashion upon several grounds. The most widespread criticism is that many people think the people in the magazines flaunt an unrealistic goal for the average woman: young woman will look up to these models, but not be able to achieve the same results. Several have tried to display more realistic models to stop this so the magazines are more accessible to a wider range of people.
Men may feel more awkward about subscribing to a fashion magazine, but there are many that are targeted to men. Men’s magazines often cover not only fashion, but often also work out routines, appearance and grooming tips. Although these magazines once appeared only to be a woman’s domain, many men’s magazines are becoming popular as well.
Winning By a Hair – A History Of Hair Fashion
Published November 22, 2011 |
Because of the frequent changes of hairstyles it’s difficult, to say the least, to stay up on what’s in and what’s out. Additionally, when it comes to celebrity fashion, lets face it; they change there hairstyles the way normal people change their shoes. Using them as examples for what kind of hairstyle to follow is like a ferret on crack chasing it’s tail.
Some people may believe that it is only in recent times that society in general started to put a lot of their focus on differing hair styles. However, the truth is hair fashion has been an area that has been focused on for the past 3000 years.
Hair styles have changed so much over the years either for better or for worse. Hair fashion also depended greatly on what part of the world you lived in. We will take a look at history as far as it related to hair fashion.
A look at history shows that in ancient Egypt, it was commonplace for both men and women to wear their hair cut short and closely cropped to their head.
Nevertheless, Egyptians would normally wear elaborate wigs during special ceremonies. In ancient Greece, women typically wore their hair quite long and pulled back, and quite often dyed it with red henna.
Women from ancient Rome used to follow Greek hair fashion very closely; one noteworthy difference is that the women of Rome were more likely to have their hair dyed blonde. The women of Rome also used curling irons and hair dressing become a very popular trade.
Looking to a different region; in the East, it was a requirement that all Muslims have their hair hidden when in public, and in the region of China, hair symbolized the marital status of an individual. If a woman wore her hair long and braided it was typically a sign that a women was unmarried. If the woman were married she would wear it pulled back and in a knot.
Styles in the African nations differed and were typically a symbol of the persons social status. Some general African hair styles long hair, braids, and shaved heads.
The American Indians hair fashion varied from region to region. It was quite common in numerous areas for hair to be shaved, and in the Mayan tribes individuals frequently wore ornate headpieces over a bald head.
The Renaissance and Beyond
At the time of the Renaissance, women in general intensely desired higher foreheads. This type of hair fashion was painful; literally. This was because in order to obtain this hairstyle a women would have to take a pair of tweezers and pluck the hairs from the very front of their hairline until they had a higher forehead. During this period of time women also attempted to sun-bleach their hair.
Moving ahead to the 1600s, hair fashion was greatly influenced by none other than Queen Elizabeth herself. Numerous women during this era tried to obtain powder so that they could make their complexions look fairer and would wear red wigs to try to duplicate the look of the Queen’s fiery head of hair.
Throughout the 1700s, the ‘in’ hair fashion was for big hair. This comprised using elaborate wigs for both men and women alike. Quite often men would tie back their own hair. Due to reasons of practicality the complexity was toned down at the time of the Victorian Era. The trend for women at that point was neatness and the typically wore their hair oiled down or pinned back in curls. On certain occasions they would even wear hairnets so they could keep their hair out of the way.
With the introduction and constant supply of movies in the beginning of the twentieth century, hair fashion has become more affected by celebrities than anything else, and this continues to be true to this very day.
Anna Wintour – Influential Magazine Editor
Published November 22, 2011 |
Through her 30+career in magazine publishing, Wintour has developed a reputation for being distant and cold. It has been said that she a demanding boss and is difficult to work for, an opinion Wintour doesn’t exactly deny. In 2003, Lauren Weisberger, one of Anna Wintour’s former assistants published the book The Devil Wears Prada, based on her experience working at Vogue magazine. The book was made into a movie in 2006 and Anna Wintour made celebrity magazine and fashion magazine headlines when she showed up to the premiere wearing Prada.
In August 2009, Anna Wintour along with the creation of the September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine were the subjects of the documentary, “The September Issue.” The documentary shows, for the first time, the demanding work required to produce an issue of Vogue magazine.
Forbes magazine recently reported that though the documentary is touted as “the real Devil Wears Prada,” that “Wintour mostly is portrayed as a professional and a perfectionist with a well-defined vision and an inferiority complex that becomes apparent when she admiringly talks about her three siblings who consider her profession “amusing”; Wintour’s sister, for example, lobbies for farmers’ rights in Latin America.”
Anna Wintour was born in 1949, in London, England, to newspaper editor Charles Wintour and his wife, philanthropist Elinor Wintour. As a teenager, Wintour dropped out of school and instead pursued a life that revolved around the chic London life of the 1960s, frequenting the same London clubs of pop culture’s biggest celebrities and musicians like The Beatles and Rolling Stones.
Before Vogue magazine, Anna Wintour started out in the fashion department of Harper’s & Queen in London. Over the years, she climbed the editorial ladder and bounced from magazine to magazine between New York and London. In 1976, she moved to New York and took over as fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar magazine. With a stop at Viva magazine after Harper’s Bazaar in between, Anna Wintour took a job with New York magazine in 1981. From the start, Wintour was driven and had her own sense of style and direction. In 1986, she returned to London as top editor of publisher Cond