THE FASH PACK

Are The Summer Magazine Issues Running Stale?

Naomi Mdudu — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:00:00 BST

My name is Naomi and I am a magazine junkie, no seriously, but despite my penchant for a magazine or six, I can either take or leave the summer issues. Last week I did my regular skim through the latest issues and the features sounded familiar. Why? Well, because they're the same stories that they are at this time every year.

Don't believe me? Have a look through the July issues of your favourite magazines and you'll be hard pressed to find a feature that is not along the lines of giving last minute tips to get that summer body or holiday skin tips and the like. Don't get me wrong, naturally these are issues that come along with the summer weather but it's as if for three months every year readers are no longer interested in wider features. Instead, our concerns are perceived as stopping at whether to go for a full Brazilian wax or French.

Eva Wiseman spoke about something similar in a recent article for the Guardian online, where she wrote that magazines seem to be in a time warp, with cover stories not generally breaking new ground beyond 'her diet, what she's wearing and who she's going out with.'

Am I the only one desperate for a shake-up?

Adriana Lima Responds To Dieting Criticism

Naomi Mdudu — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:00:00 GMT

Adriana Lima was in the hot seat recently over her dieting habits in the run up the Victoria's Secret shows. In an interview with the Telegraph she explained how she goes on a liquid diet for nine days, stops drinking 12 hours before the show to "dry out" and works with a trainer twice a day for the three weeks leading up to show day.

As you would expect, her confession didn't go down to well prompting her to make a statement yesterday. “I know it’s very intense but … I just have an athlete’s mind and I appreciate doing this thing,” she told E!. “It’s not that I do crazy diets throughout the year. I just do it for this particular thing. After this show, I become normal again.”

Quote Me: Vogue Australia Joins Size-Zero Fight

Jill Hilbrenner — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:30:45 BST

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Some of the international designers' samples look like dolls clothes when they arrive. We shouldn't have to starve to fit the clothes. The clothes should fit us.

”Vogue Australia editor Kirstie Clements speaks out, as Vogue UK editor Alexandra Shulman previously has, in efforts to return to fashion normality