The Man Mag Report
Men's magazines are the dearth-land they used to be. Don't think that they escape my attention either as I happily devote my money to a good men's fashion mag (or sneakily steal from my boyfriend's stash). Thom Wong of The Sunday Best is embarking on what I think will be a fruitful project which is to do a mag report on two men's fashion titles each month for the next 12 months. By 'mag' report, I mean it's a REALLY meaty, chunky report in manner of the book reports you used to have to write at school...except Thom is a lot more eloquent than 'This book was great. I really liked it'. The composite details of all the mags he has reviewed by the end of the 12 months should hopefully convince a few people that men's fashion magazines aren't a waste of time and that there is a lot going for them! Here are my two cents on the whole men's mag shebang...
i really like that cover for that man about town magazine.
Posted by: Prêt-à-Porter Prostitute | 03 December 2007 at 21:35
Dear Susie! Your blog is great! I found info at TFS in one of the threads :)
It's off topic but can you help me? I asked my friend who is now in London to buy some fashion related books (ex. D.V., Nina Garcia's new book, etc.) but she sms-ed me that there are no such books in the book stores :( Where she can search for them? Could you give any addresses?
Thanks in advance!
Posted by: Ekaterina | 04 December 2007 at 02:40
The covers of the four magazines on top look quite interesting...and men's magazines (not the Maxim kind) can be a bit of a relief to go through because their content doesn't seem as dominated by advertisers as the women's mags- they have ads, but at least those don't seem to make up 75% of the pages.
Posted by: Drusilla | 04 December 2007 at 10:49
Agreed, I was about to do a post on the mens mag market too, it's def on the up!
Posted by: rollergirl | 04 December 2007 at 14:29
Fantastic Man is a really great magazine, I bought it because Vinoodh was on the cover and ended up reading it cover to cover. Great articles and great photographs.
Posted by: Laia | 04 December 2007 at 14:53
Fantastic news!
Wong is so very accurate on the whole 'more fashion in fashion mags' front. We really do need more.
DCB.
Posted by: Dustcakeboy | 04 December 2007 at 16:48
I have read GQ for quite a while because it is easy to get. I get it primarily for the fashion coverage, but the articles usually are well written, top quality stuff.
Posted by: j | 05 December 2007 at 03:21
Thanks for the kind words - I hope I can live up to them (more astute readers will have noticed I am already one behind).
Posted by: Thom Wong | 05 December 2007 at 05:32