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Looking at clothes & brands & trends on a computer screen is a different experience, isn’t it? Magazines are diva pits, flesh-and-blood places, & they are probably less so today than 10 or 20 years ago, & of work that outsized feeling & passion for clothes is what helps stir the imagination of designers & editors similar.One thing in the Polyvore piece that amused me was the description of the company’s office, the atmosphere of tact & friendliness — unlike magazine offices which, as Ms. Jacobs noted, “are widely perceived to be snake pits.”
Other things to note about the April books: Grace Coddington’s timely piece in Vogue called “Changing Directions” (I’m always interested to see how he puts clothes together, & I loved seeing Sophie Theallet’s striped long dress (with a Marc Jacobs khaki twill jacket); my mate Teri Agins in her younger days with an Afro; & Kim Noorda’s account about her eating disorder.
I guess things are thinning out now, & not magazine pages. Polyvore is a useful site for people, but it does, as Ms. Jacobs’s reporting suggested, reflect a remote, blunt, user-friendly time.
After a slow start at the front of the book, Glamour has a hot well (though perhaps after Paris Vogue’s military issue, we’ve seen combat boots — till the fall). Elle has a clever spread about reinventing the workaday uniform; ditto a piece at the front about two inspiring retailers/stylists.
