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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Celebs follow fashion trends. The fashion finders don't watch Celebs for the next big fashion trend. Celebs are here to help push a trend that has already started some place else.
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Trading on Hollywood Magic; Celebrities Push Models Off Women's Magazine Covers
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" Linda Wells, the editor of Allure, a monthly fashion magazine published by Conde Nast, assembled her staff for a meeting in early December. The magazine, she said, would be changing its direction, placing more emphasis on celebrities.
Then she lowered the boom: ''Nobody cares about models anymore.''"
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"The shift from supermodel to Hollywood stars and public personalities on magazine covers is the latest sign of Americans' obsession with celebrity. And magazine editors think that preoccupation is the magic bullet that will move their merchandise.
Neil Gabler, a cultural historian who has written widely about the phenomenon of celebrity, said that models had disappeared from the covers of women's magazine because people grew bored with the one-dimensional nature of models, who offer no substance, just beauty. Celebrities, he said, at least offer the illusion of substance.
''When you go to the newsstand now, on magazine after magazine -- whether it's Vogue or Cigar Aficionado -- we see the faces of celebrities looking out at us,'' he said. ''In the eyes of the public, models are unidimensional. They are purely visual, whereas celebrities have these lives we can attach to and they seem more fully dimensional to us.'' "
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