Beat Stylist
When the note for Kate Couric’s March Harper’s Bazaar spread hit my inbox I yawned, thinking “oh good, another Good Housekeeping photoshoot for me to ignore.” I love it when my cynicism is dead wrong. To my very pleasant surprise Couric is every bit the high fashion diva – looking both age and station-appropriate...
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Lily Allen was photographed by Alan Gelati for Russian Vogue January 2010. Though her music has never gotten me very excited, I’m impress with Lily in this editorial. She’s showing some depth here and it makes me want to revisit her work (which is the point, I guess). These have much more dimension than...
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Incredibly, US Harper’s Bazaar landed the first interview with Janet Jackson since the tragic death of her older brother Michael. Janet’s looking good on the cover and I can’t help but hope that she might be able to turn a colossal lemon into the sweetest lemonade. That is, can she flip the frenzy over...
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Sigh. Now that the King of Pop/Rock/Soul is dead, everybody wants to ride his glittery coattails. Harper’s Bazaar‘s so-called tribute to Michael Jackson is not only late but terribly terribly executed. I mean really, who’d they get to put this one together, someone from the National Enquirer??? It’s clear that no thought whatsoever was...
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Check this out: model Crystal Renn used to be anorexic. Now she’s being featured in Australian Harper’s Bazaar in all her real woman glory. Lately there’s been attention to the whitewash that is the currently model breed. But, truthfully, diversity is less needed via color, than via size representation. Honestly, I don’t understand why...
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Oh my! I am NOT a fan of this cover for Halle – she barely looks like herself! Luckily, the editorial inside is leaps and bounds better. What editor in their right mind would choose this for the cover??? On Gabriel Aubry: “I have a 33-year-old man. That’ll keep your mojo mojo-in’. On the...
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Oh joy. Just got word today that Harper’s Bazaar will launch their India edition this month. Isn’t this just was south Asia needs? More propaganda to convince the hoards of brown girls that only fair-skinned women are beautiful and worthy of celebration. Who wants to wager that none of the cover models will ever...
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