Rosie Huntington-Whiteley - from Love to Transformers

This girl is going places, hmmm.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley on the set of Transformers 3

On the cover of Love - looking like a cross between Laetitia Casta and Lolo Ferrari...

Paris Vogue September issue feat Freja Beha

Dreaming of the September issues...

Polyvore - we're all fashion editors now

"Newspapers and magazines are, like, these things outside that get wet. They're roadkill." So says Jess Lee, vice-president of fashion website Polyvore, in Alexandra Jacobs' piece in The New Yorker about the online phenomenon.

The piece has prompted people who care about this kind of thing to offer their thoughts. The comments in response to Cathy Horyn's blog post on the topic, for example, suggest most people tend to agree with Ms Lee: fashion magazines are dead. In Horyn's words, they're "thinning out".

I don't use Polyvore myself - it seems like a teenage pastime to me, like making a scrapbook - but then, really, fashion blogs provide a similar kind of outlet: the chance for anyone who wishes to to create their own magazine spreads. More like, it's revenge of the wannabe fashionistas: all those people who were ever turned down for jobs in magazines are striking out on their own. Funny.

Any way you look at it, we're all fashion editors now.

Manzine issue 3

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Magazine spoilers

The February 2009 cover of Paris Vogue, published on Fashion Gone Rogue

While I enjoy browsing websites such as Fashion Gone Rogue and Fashion Copious for all the latest magazine editorials and ad campaigns (especially since Borders, my old magazine browsing haunt, closed), the downside is it kills the joy of reading the magazines (hard copies) I actually buy. I'm talking about American and Paris Vogues, chiefly, which I purchase without fail every month. Perusing a new issue is a a favourite ritual of mine, and it's annoying, therefore, when the novelty is ruined because I've already seen the pictures, or at least some of them, online. Now, I know what you're thinking: that I should just not look at these sites at all. Their content is so all-encompassing, though, that for a mag-hag like me the temptation of logging on to them for the pages of magazines I won't ever buy (Japanese Vogue, French Elle) is too strong, even if it means doing it at the expense of my monthly reads. Suggestion: in the same way football results come with a forewarning, why not put a "spoiler alert" message at the front of the post? Even better would be a tool with the ability to eliminate those magazines one doesn't want to see (this would be a time-saver, too). For now, however, I'll be scouring these sites with a half-open eye, snapping them shut and moving on quickly each time one of these pesky spoilers crops up.