https://ecosalon.com/now-then-the-history-of-fashion-media/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 15:51:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.25 https://ecosalon.com/now-then-the-history-of-fashion-media/#comment-45910 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:53:09 +0000 http://ecosalon.com/?p=135725#comment-45910 I am a long-time collector of vintage fashion magazines and never tire of the beautiful graphics, ground-breaking photography and the witty banter of Mrs. Vreeland and her contemporaries. The 1938 Harper’s Bazaar spread you’ve featured, is a perfect example of the elegance and meticulous care seen in the work of Alexey Brodovitch — not unlike that of his Vogue counterpart, another Russian-born AD, Alexander Liberman. Now, the lines between edit and advertising have blurred at most (perhaps all?) publications. The couturiers are gone and the craftsmanship required to create well-made fashion, has for the most part, died along with them. Fashion magazines in particular have lost what was once, in some form at least, their journalistic integrity. In order to compete with tabloid-style sensationalism at the supermarket check-out counter, celebrity-mongering on the front covers and impersonal interviews with “stars” in the well have sadly, become the norm. As a result, the current crop of major fashion publications are barely a cut above their trash-talking competitors when it comes to content.

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