First, I love Town and Country magazine. It is easy to read, usually has some great fashion and jewelry in it, and very little health issue info which is prevalent in a lot of other places. Just give me fashion when I’m reading T&C.
Raves:
*Jane Krakowski looks fab on the cover. I enjoyed the interview with her in the mag.
*Wonderful, wonderful purples for fall.
*Lots of beautiful fashion and jewelry.
*The picture and brief story of the Paris apartment that Jacques Grange decorated.
*Donna Karan’s model is thin, but not anorexic, unlike Bottega Veneta’s who looks sickly. Similar cheek structure. Softer eyes.
*Giorgio Armani’s fab, fab 30s themed ad in black and white. Gorgeous! I want to look like her when I grow up!
*Loved the article on the 7 career women. None of them look anorexic.
Rants:
Bottega Veneta’s anorexic model — she looks like she’d keel over if she nibbled on a carrot stick. Boney. Sunken cheeks. Heroin chic eyes.
Versace ad — gorgeous dress; gorgeous shoes with purple sole insert — terrible pose, looks like she’s being held up — then you notice the shadow of a man holding a gun on her. What are they thinking! It shows off her back and arms and bustline — but you know it could have been done in a less violent, more tasteful way.
I thought art directors would have the good sense to veto some ads. Evidently not. Or else these are better than the ones they vetoed.
Mixed bag
Some of the RL people looked like RL people with normal bodies. Some looked anorexic. Beautiful clothes at the various events.
My hopes
*That someday we will have real images, not such photo shopped ones, keeping us abreast in fashion.
*That someday we will see real women being seen as beautiful, not impossibly thin role models.
*That art directors will take a stand, as will fashion professionals, to show beauty as beautiful, not ugly as beautiful.
*And that they will maintain a certain level of decent weight on a model — I thought they were going to do this, whatever happened to that!
How do you feel about these issues? Have you seen this magazine?
If there weren’t so much that I do like about the magazine, I wouldn’t renew when the time comes if this is the ‘fashion’ that I will be subjected to. Images need to be usable in RL. Yes, we know they are tweaked for the real consumer, but give me a break!
Karin
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