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January 2010 : A Month In Magazines

I have too many magazines. It's gross. It's been a problem for over two decades. I started in elementary school. Stacks and stacks.

Once, about half way into my relentless editorial addiction, I got wise to the fact that my chronic hoarding of glossies might be taking a turn toward the unsavory, as my tiny apartment was being consumed by paper and my meager mid-20s paycheck may or may not have been responsible for singlehandedly sustaining the newsstand on Las Palmas & Hollywood.

That's when I decided to just start ripping out my favorite bits, filing them away for another day, and chucking the rest, which didn't really save much money, but did help to reclaim some shelf space.

Now, thanks to the information overload that I subject myself to daily online, I feel a lot less compelled to part with my cash for just any ol rag and have restricted my purchases to lowbrow art, alternative health, and foreign fashion magazines. For everything else, I turn to the web.

So, I really appreciate blogs like Fashion Copious and Knight Cat for keeping current on the visual haps and love this post Fashioninsing just did, featuring a bunch of January 2010 covers. There's a lot & here are a few of my faves...

Terry Richardson 4 Pirelli 2010

(Is that a smile I see on that lil critters face?)

Terry Richardson pisses some women off, and his recent Gossip Girl-Rolling Stone cover is a prime example of why... female exploitation & faux lesbian, oh my! However, I do consider myself a feminist, AND I love artsy, humorous nekid pix. I do! So what? I don't have to follow the rules of the almighty "they". They suck! And, if I ever get a chance to shoot with whacky Mr. Richardson, I'll be stripping down to my birthday suit in a heart beat. Italian Vanity Fair is giving the world a sneak peak at the work he & a gaggle of nude supermodels did in Brazil for next year's infamous Pirelli calendar & I must say... woah. That'll raise some eyebrows.

Lily Cole is Super

In case you had any doubts that super models are leading super-ior lives, here's Natasha Poly and Noemie Lenoir joining Lily Cole on the red carpet at Cannes for her major feature debut in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The film was mostly panned by critics, which seems pretty unavoidable considering it was quickly cobbled together with replacement actors after Heather Ledger's untimely death, but Ms. Cole came out smelling like roses, gleaning the majority of the critical praise for her apparently dazzling performance. Beautiful, rich, AND talented? But of course! Fashionista's got the rest of the scoop about that here. Wonder what happened to Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll, the Marilyn Manson project she was suppose to star in. I remember the clips Manson posted on his website & they looked cool as hell.