I don’t read magazines very often, especially fashion ones (Sorry, Julio!) Once I’m finished I’m always left feeling fat, ugly, that all my make-up sucks (and consequently needs to be thrown out) and that I’m in desperate need of new clothes.
The same goes for Décor magazines (my apartment is ugly) Food (my dinner looks depressing) and Travel (I’m too poor to go anywhere, ever)
I think the root of this; for me at least, boils down to the advertising. The constant bombardment of aspirational clothing, housing, nourishment and lifestyle leaves me feeling insecure and distracted from the articles at hand. Which is too bad, because it took me 4x longer than it should have to read Zadie Smiths fascinating short story, Moonlit Landscape with Bridge, in the New Yorker. I couldn’t appreciate the beautiful lattice pastry in Bon Appetit because the ads for Kitchen Aid mixers made me envious (They come in Pistachio now!) and when Lena Dunham was the Vogue cover girl last year I was so body shamed by the time I got to the article that I had to read it twice. Continue reading “Food & Wine | Texture by Next Issue is now available in Canada!”