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WHAT’S NEW: Media

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The Media page on The Style Page has undergone major changes.

The media page links to three major publishers of lifestyle magazines in the U.S:

Conde Nast – publishers of Allure, Architectural Digest, Cargo, Lucky, Vogue, and Domino, the shopping magazine for the home, which will debut in April 2005. Conde Nast is already seeking charter subscribers on the basis of a sneak peak into a few of the pages of Domino.

Time Inc. – publishers of InStyle, People, REAL SIMPLE, Southern Living, Sunset, and of course, Time.

Hearst Corporation – publishers of Cosmo, Marie Claire, O (Oprah), and SHOP Etc. While I was critical of SHOP Etc., it’s growing on me, even though their style is still too frou-frou for me. I bought the first three issues at the newsstand, and then decided that it was time to subscribe.

The media page features links to Fashion and lifestyle coverage from major newspapers, such as the International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Telegraph (UK). Please note that access to online coverage for these publications might require registration or even a paid subscription.

Finally, the media page features links to “new” publishing ventures, such as femail.co.uk (featuring Trinny and Elizabeth of BBC’s What Not to Wear), handbag.co.uk, and MochaSofa from Canada.

For those of you who track this blog via news aggregators such as Bloglines, you can track updates to The Style Page web site by subscribing to http://www.thestylepage.com/thestylepage.xml

I hope that you like the updates to the Media page. You can subscribe to many of the magazines listed here through amazon.com.

BOOKSTAND pages on The Style Page now updated

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I have just completed an update of the Bookstand pages on The Style Page.

There’s less than 2 weeks to Christmas, and if you still haven’t bought gifts for everyone on your list, consider buying books, magazine subscriptions, CDs, or DVDs from Amazon.com.

Perhaps it’s because the end of the year is near and I’m taking a look back to see how I could have done better, several of the new links – Day-Timer, Filofax, FranklinCovey – on the Bookstand – Stationery page are for planners and organizers. I still rely on a small 6-ring organizer binder to record appointments, deadlines, etc., especially when I’m away from the computer. At the end of the year, I move the pages to an archive binder. While I do use Web-based calendars and reminders and lately have started using text messaging for reminders via my mobile phone, I just haven’t seen the benefit of using a Palm Pilot or Blackberry or other PDA.


Pro-Con pads from Knock-Knock

While Knock Knock has been listed on the Bookstand – Stationery page for some time, I’d like to direct readers to their products. I bought Pro-Con pads as a gag for my co-workers to help assess the pros and cons associated with various options. There’s even a place at the bottom to list the total number of “pros” and “cons” – as if we could make decisions based on simple counts! Knock Knock also offers a Resolution Tracking System with sections for Resolutions, Rewards, and yes – Relapses: I bought one for myself for New Year’s.

Knock Knock’s products are gimmicky and alternately serious and silly. But then, what can one expect from a company that says “We concoct, manufacture, and distribute witty objects of cosmopolitan panache from our shamelessly sunny perch on the lefthand coast” (they are based in Venice, CA) on their corporate philosophy page?

Celebrate summer – The Style Page now updated for June 2004

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The Style Page is now updated for June 2004.

This past month, we received requests for listings from Thomasin Countey jewelry, rapp and posavek handbags, and Reviva Labs natural skin care. Please check out their web sites through The Style Page.

The Style Page now features online shopping via Amazon.com’s new Beauty Store.

AlterNet: Women Deserve "More"

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Women Deserve More, by Sheila Gibbons of Media Report to Women is an interesting article about the ambivalence of MORE, “the one magazine that celebrates women over 40,” towards its target audience. The host web site AlterNet describes itself as “a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism” and is liberal-to-leftist in its orientation.

Kudos to Marlene Eskin, who identified this article through the 2004-03-18 update (select What’s New) of CosmeticIndustry.com.

I plan to read Spin Sisters : How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness — and Liberalism — to the Women of America, written by Myrna Blyth, founding editor-in-chief and publishing director of MORE magazine. As you can see, views expressed on amazon.com about Spin Sisters are strongly divided, with some thinking that Ms. Blyth is reinventing herself as a conservative pundit.

What Guys Want

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I picked up a copy of the premiere issue of CARGO, the men’s version of Lucky magazine.


CARGO

I’ve been a fan of Lucky from the beginning. The main purpose of women’s magazines is to deliver their audiences to the advertisers. Magazines such as Vogue often have a disconnect between articles on social and political issues on one hand and opulent fashion spreads on the other. (Yes, I know that I’m writing this after sending two messages to The Style Page e-group about the terrorist attacks in Madrid – a member from Malaysia unsuscribed that day. Coincidence?) Lucky, I think, is much more honest in that it dispenses with everything except delivering the audience to its advertisers.

But anyway, back to Cargo. Whereas Lucky focuses on fashion, beauty, and lifestyle, Cargo focuses on “Tech” (consumer electronics), Style, Cars, and Culture. “Culture” here is a catchall that encompasses interior decoration and food & drink, as “culture” on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a catchall that includes etiquette and nice manners. Another difference is that Cargo is much more wordy than Lucky – are guys really more concerned with how things perform, while women are more concerned with how things look, or is that just a myth?

I was rather turned off by the blatant approach to sex in Cargo. There is a short feature on the Trovata clothing design team, whose T-shirts and cargo pants feature “nudie” graphics, another feature on buying roses that says that peach-colored roses mean “Sheer lust, Baby,” and lastly, a feature on what to wear on a third date, as many women say that they’d go to bed with a man by the third date.

I can’t resist bringing up Queer Eye again. The thing that I like about Queer Eye, and what I suspect that many other women like, is that it’s about pleasing the woman in one’s life and romance. Cargo, on the other hand, is more about getting laid.

BTW Cargo’s interior design feature was done by Thom Filicia, Queer Eye’s “Design Doctor,” who just signed a contact to serve as a spokesman for Pier 1.