There’s actually just a handful of things a magazine issue can do to you – besides actually buying it, that is – and one of them is appalling you with a cover only. Today I will get into that. Again. And I’ll start with a mild one: Drew Barrymore on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar [...]

Now that’s a good cover for October! Maybe I just have a thing for redheads? Karen Elson covers the British edition of Harper’s Bazaar, the October 2010 issue. And the word is: flawless. I was listening to the radio the other day and, guess what? While I was preparing this Karen Elson piece, there was [...]

Have you ever asked yourself if the subject picked by magazines really highlight our interests? I kinda always had the feeling that magazines try hard (and some don’t succeed) to draw your interest, even where there is none. I guess what I’m trying to say is this: who would have been interested in seeing Jennifer [...]

Have you seen Knight and Day? I haven’t, so please don’t spoil the fun – we intend to make a home cinema soiree sometime with this one… Not because we think it’s that special, but because we think it’s not worth the trouble of calling the four winds and the mighty fairies to babysit our [...]

From Vogue to Harper’s Bazaar it’s only a small step. And Gisele Bundchen on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar UK September 2010 fails to produce a huge surprise. Or impression, for that matter. She’s Gisele. Everyone expects her to be gorgeous, to stand tall and beautiful, breathtakingly delivering everything from fashion to babies. And so [...]

Vanessa Paradis definitely has a moment right now. And I couldn’t be happier since her style, her entire persona, is truly an oasis in both time and space. Also, as un-nice as it may seem (it’s something I really try hard not to, however, opportunities stubbornly appear along the way – like that Zac Posen [...]

Harper’s Bazaar double issue June/July 2010 comes with a shiny, happy cover, but not much content to go with it (despite the cover text overload). Katherine Heigl, as radiant and pretty as ever makes a lady-like cover and a 60s bourgeois resort pictorial inside (something you’ve already seen in Louis Vuitton’s last collection and more), [...]

Summer is definitely in the air as two (fashion) magazines go for clothes-less pictorials. Harper’s Bazaar’s Naked Truth with Kim Kardashian has made quite some waves given the specifications: unretouched, not-photoshopped. Kim Kardashian’s un-airbrushed body, however, doesn’t hold many secrets anymore (neither does she en entier, but that’s another story) so it’s pretty unfair that [...]