I love Vogue

being a fashion and reading material lover and with a new magazine being released almost every day, I buy and read a lot of those print media.
disappointingly, most of those magazines are really plain and are only repeating each other with all the newest celebrity gossip, styling tips and latest trends on fashion that you can already guess will not last a week.

I found for myself that I am getting constant viewing pleasure and literal reading quality from Vogue.
being a monthly released magazine it offers you a large number of sites (I love bringing it home from the newspaper stand, feeling it´s weight) with articles you will not only read down easily and forget but who are researched precisely and written in a literarily sophisticated way that makes you enjoy every single word.

with the photo series it´s noticeable that they´re working with (fashion) photographers like David
laChappelle who really know their job.

(italian Vogue)

Vogue might be the most expensive of the mags and the intellectual level does not make it a media to be read in the tube but for me it is the magazine that is worth its price and for which I turn off the telephone every saturday morning.

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as far as I got in the current issue I really enjoyed an article which was named "voyeurs of your own" which was about how people are working on their `image´ these times.
they want to look rather ideal than real to others.

today yet, we´ve come to the point where perfection isn´t the main goal anymore. the media already campaigns the `beauty of personality´ with all its imperfections so that epecially in fashion it´s not en vogue anymore to be too matchy-matchy but to celebrate changes in style.

this, still is only another kind of `image´.
but if personality and its uniqueness is the new perfection, why even creating an image out of that?
can´t we just be ourselves then and show our personality just the way it is without any polish?

as the article points out, humanity´s main problem is the need for pleasing others.
as shakespeare already said: "the world is a stage, and we´re all actors", people´s behaviour vary mainly according to if someone´s watching or not.
therefore, we´re observing others as well but what we see in them is basically only a projection of aspirations and shortcomings we feel in ourselves.
since according to behaviour-research, looking at others closely will always be followed by comparing them to ourselves, the most appropriate consequence is not even starting.

in times when authenticity seems to be the best prestige why not completely abandonning any image care and just being authentic?

Comments

[Aretha]

I love Vogue but in my country we can't buy it, so I have to buy the Latinamerican version that's not the same but at least let me closer to this amazing publication. Love all magazines too, just like you