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Peter Lindbergh to get back with Vogue

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:55:34 +0000

It was almost 18 years back that Peter Lindbergh made a switch from Vogue to Harper’s Bazaar and he hasn’t really looked back much since then. This was quite a tactical move and there were some issues also involved which made him make the move. But it certainly seems as if there is going to be a homecoming as Peter Lindbergh has been requested to shot for Vogue again by Anna Wintour and Grace Coddington. This is a homecoming for Peter Lindbergh because he says that the call back to Vogue is almost as if he is getting called back by the older brother in the family to come back home, being the black sheep of the family.

But what is with Peter Lindbergh? He seems to be quite ballistic about the fact that a lot of retouching of photographs is taking place. He doesn’t like it one bit that hair is getting retouched and the look and tints and shades are all being changed so often that it doesn’t look like the real thing anymore at all. This has Peter quite upset, but then that has become the norm in photography circles, which means that he may not be able to change much after all.

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Website launch of Italian Vogue

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:52:37 +0000

The website launch of Italian Vogue means that you can get fashion highlights and latest snippets from Italy. And you will be happy to note that the website launch also signifies that posts will be available in English. There is no need to be just happy seeing the pictures and the videos, as you can now actually read up online on the site. There are many exciting and scintillating sections inside the site, like Vogue Curvy, Vogue Talents and Vogue Black. There are also sections like the one where Tyra speaks about her show and how friendly she had got with Hillary Clinton, to the point where she even asked her very personal questions.

Vogue Curvy is devoted to women who are decidedly not skinny, and who are quite curvy, as the section plainly indicates. It talks about women who do not go with the anorexic look, but who are devoted to looking alluring in their natural curves, the way they naturally are. With Vogue Talents, you get a lowdown on upcoming talents and fashion wannabes. While it is debatable as if some of the talents are really up and coming, it makes sense to watch these. With Italian Vogue, there are quite a lot of things that you can watch out for.

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Vogue Sales Sag on Newsstands if not in overall magazines subscriptions

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:42:03 +0000

There is a new trend in fashion magazines sales where the sales of such magazines at the newsstand seem to be falling. This is a trend across the board with almost all fashion magazines reporting lower and slower off-take at regular newsstands. For instance, Vogue has seen a 15.1% drop in sales of single copies of the popular fashion magazine with fall in sales of Allure have been 17.2%, Marie Claire at 14.6% and Lucky with 11.7% decline. While this is true of the newsstand sales, the impact on overall magazines subscriptions was not clear.

The trend in falling newsstand sales can be attributed to the weakness in the economy which has impacted the fashion magazine industry too. However, a lot of fashion publishers have been comforting themselves with the thought that their magazines subscriptions are thriving well in the online versions. There is a widespread belief that as far as media trends go, print belongs to the past, with slick online versions leading the charge in these times.

There have been some magazines that have bucked the trend with Harper’s Bazaar adding 0.3% in newsstand sales and Vanity Fair reporting a massive 5% increase. But the greatest increase has been in health oriented magazines with Health reporting a huge 11.1% hike in newsstand sales. Figures on Magazines subscriptions in totality, were not available for comparison.

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