Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Book review

 
You have balls, Grace.  I'll give you that.  But you forget the advantage of being the woman.  Rock and Roll is a dangerous business.  Like the cliché goes, you don't need to go looking for trouble, trouble comes to you.  My orders are to stand my ground, and be ready.  But Allah agrees with you.  Cancel all the other live gigs in venues, or I will find another wife if you're going to disobey me and get yourself killed.

I hardly do book reviews.  Actually, I NEVER do book reviews.  Except for Vogue.  How did I get mixed up with the fashion business?  That's because I wanted to marry some models.  You can sift through this blog to see exactly how my love life was, it's all recorded here right from 2008, although I don't why anyone would bother, but I'm sure someone does.  It's the Internet, after all.  And I'm still unmarried.  So I busied myself in fashion business.  What I did was go through the list of fashion designers on Vogue's website, then put them in competition with each other.  After all, they are in competition with each other anyway, right?  After a couple of years, Vogue started to hide names from me.  Then they tried to charge me for using their data, that's when I quit the fashion business.  But they still have my email, and eventually Anna Wintour herself emailed me.  I don't know why but I like Anna, even though she is not reputed to be likeable.  I think it's because I have a cat named Anna.  Thus I do these reviews of Vogue magazine.  Anna, please do a feature on my Grace.  Dress her up super feminine and sophisticated, but don't mess too much with her hair.  And she doesn't have many clothes.  She needs more clothes.

Anyway, here's my review of US Vogue magazine, May 2024.  Best outfit goes to that wedding dress thingy that Zendaya is wearing by Schiaparelli haute couture.  That simple white dress by Victoria Beckham for Mango is very nice.  Very elegant is the dress by Vetements by Guram Gvasalia worn by Elizabeth Debicki.  Those fringed shorts by Tom Ford that Kendall wears is very cute.  The bug jewelry from Van Cleef and Arpels is pretty.  Balmain’s Eden Flower heels are breathtaking.  This issue of Vogue magazine is gorgeous to look at, which is the point of a fashion magazine.

EXCEPT

The ad for the Vogue podcast is a complete eyesore.  The layout is bad, the photography is bad, the girls look bad and dress awfully. The entire ad looks like it smells bad.  This is the same ad that I saw in the January issue, also on the Vogue website.  Vogue should be ashamed for repeatedly putting such crap among the rose petals.  It's probably laziness.

Also, tell those bankers to pay more and provide a more relevant ad if they wanted to be in Vogue.