What am I looking forward to on Vogue’s Fashion’s Night Out? Jeez, where to start? At the Vogue bloggers’ preview last Wednesday morning, I chatted to Alex Shulman and what seemed like half the Vogue staff about their magnificent plans for September 8th. (more…)
Pinch me now! Vogue’s Fashion’s Night out is fast approaching and I’ve managed to wangle a wee project with Harvey Nichols. I’ve rallied some of my favourite fashion creatives to design/print/customise a one-off tee to be showcased at FNO on September 8th, then auctioned on EBay afterwards. I’m especially pleased as all proceeds will go to Kids Company, a charity that I have supported for a while.
The twist is that the identity of each T-shirt’s designer won’t be revealed til the auction finishes. (Although um, it might be quite easy to guess one or two…) The deadline for the finished tees to arrive is fast looming, so watch this space as I’ll be revealing all the names of the designers here…
There are also a zillion things happening in London on Fashion’s Night Out itself, which this year extends from W1 (hello Rupert Sanderson roller disco) to Knightsbridge to Covent Garden. Have you made plans yet?
As much as we all love digital, there’s still nothing that beats holding that all-important Vogue September issue in your hands. And then devouring it page by page (a breathless flick through first, then a more considered pace of page-turning). (more…)
There’s a rumour going round that Vogue is working on a site that will catalogue every issue ever published. If it’s not true it should be. In an age where the young generation of media consumers do so online, it’s a smart move to make old material newly available to all. There’s an idea that magazines are forever and online is ephemeral. Yes, a magazine is a tangiable product that you can keep and refer back to, but how do you remember in which 1990s Vogue you saw that amazing David Sims editorial? Once something is online, it can be searched and brought up again, it doesn’t just disappear into the ether.
As I mentioned to journalist Ellen Burney, the generation that has grown up with technology doesn’t have magazine nostalgia. If people have never had a relationship with magazines they won’t feel the need to collect them, they’re happy to consume everything online. I think by archiving the Vogue back catalogue online, it will come alive again as ancient articles are easily rediscovered and shared by new readers.
What do you think? Are young people less interested in collecting magazines? Is an online Vogue archive a good idea?
