Dopey Fashion Poses: Lady Gaga Edition

A Jezebel reader, inspired by the “Dopey Fashion Poses” we posted (and then Jezebel reposted), created this Lady Gaga Edition. Thoughts?

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Required Reading?

Our foray into the Sassy magazine vault last weekend provoked much Sassy love and memories from our readers, including Jenna at Jezebel. Also, in an uncanny moment of blog kismet, I discovered that Tavi Gevinson was also waxing rhapsodic for Sassy the same day I posted “Dopey Fashion Poses”! (I almost wrote, waxing nostalgic but as Dodai reminds, “Tavi was born in 1997; Sassy ceased publication in 1995.”)

Maybe Tavi saw our post? Or maybe there’s a Sassy force building energy in the universe?  I don’t know. But it got me thinking about the power of really good magazines and how I’ve been missing that for far too long. Last week, I had to discontinue my subscriptions to Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Elle – because enough’s enough. I’m so tired of flipping through magazines just because they land in my mailbox and tossing them into the recycle bin 30 minutes later. I’m keeping Teen Vogue (for now) and New York magazine (what would I do without the approval matrix?). But I’m in need of new reading materials with a fashion, style, and/or design focus!

The much-hyped Gentlewoman magazine (the sister magazine to Fantastic Man) finally arrived in the U.S. after 6 months of anticipation among bloggers, editors, and other fashion enthusiasts. While I’m still not sure I’d buy it (much less shell out the overseas subscription cost), like so many others, I do want a flick-through.

But what else to read?? What print/online magazines do you love? And why?

By the way, for those still pining over Sassy – I discovered that you can buy Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer’s book, How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time, on Amazon for about $3. Also, listen to this NPR interview with Jesella and Meltzer.

“Dopey Fashion Poses”

We’re not in the habit of posting on the weekends but this seems so perfectly suited for slow lazy Sunday perusing. I don’t doubt that many of you will remember this classic spread from the archives of Sassy magazine, which by the way was the first magazine subscription I was allowed to have.

Here’s Lucky magazine’s current Creative Director Andrea Linett doing “Dopey Fashion Poses.” My favorite, then and now, is “the menstrual cramp” or what I like to call “PMS chic”!