New Trends, Innovative Designers Find Refuge in VOGUE

If you're looking for new information on current trends, designers, and the art of fashion, Vogue is most certainly the magazine which will provide this information to you.

Vogue is a relatively expensive magazine (I believe it's up to $3.50 an issue), however since it is thicker than the average magazine it may be worth the extra money. I buy Vogue for the pictures and spreads, and Vogue has more than an adequate supply of well-composed photographs. If you're looking to research fashion and designers, Vogue is a relevant and original source of current trends. I always find information on my favourite actors and models simply saturating the pages. Also I read about new movies and art exhibits with plenty of information to help me understand them before I see them myself.

A clear detrement to Vogue is the way they tend to glorify materialism and the frivolity of including fur and skin in one's wardrobe. Keep in mind, these trends will pass, and by next fall, skin, fur, and bones will be just as gross in Hollywood as they have ever been.

As for the articles, I generally avoid them because I find them to be dragged-out, boring, and irrelevant to myself. For example, Vogue seems to recycle article themes between overweight women who are harassed in the workplace to new mothers whose husbands cheat on them. It is my opinion that since Vogue reaches so many people, and does that quickly, the magazine could provide information on current events to keep the public informed. It is in this area that Vogue displeases me. Once and a while, however, one will read about highly relevant issues such as female circumcision, etc. These types of articles are informative and engaging.

Overall Vogue is my favourite magazine because of the spreads and information about models. In the past all of the models 'gracing' Vogue's pages have been disgustingly thin and hardly adequate role models for the readers. Recently, the main attraction of the magazine has been "The Return of the SEXY Model" featuring Gisele Bundchen. Hooray! What a victory for proportional women. In fact, if you run out and get December's issue you can read about Gisele and how she's Model of the Year. The only complaints I have experienced with this magazine are the high prices, and the boring articles. Other than that, this magazine is my first choice over all the others.