| | "I'll take an Italian Vogue, please..."So today at work a co-worker rushes into my office to tell me that
Susie (aka "the Boss", Queen Mother of All Things, Creative
Director/President of Design for Anne Klein New York, AK Anne Klein,
Nine West, Jones New York, etc..you get the point) wants me to clean
out the 'magazine' closet, which is home to a gazillion fashion
magazines, trend forecast books, and the ultimate: collections
magazines. It was an odd job to volunteer me for considering I'm an
assistant designer and these tasks are usually reserved for interns,
but she has a tendency to volunteer people according to her mood or
whatever name comes to mind at the moment. I know, rich, powerful
people are weird (one week she was on an organic hot dog diet, this
week, it's a four-slices-of-roast-beef with mustard diet). She wanted
anything older than 2008 to be thrown out--literally. So packing tape
in hand, I made my place on the floor, rolled up my sleeves, and got to
work, taping up stacks of vintage magazines (circa 2002) and hauling
ass to the recycling area.
And then I came across a few Collections magazines, circa Fall/Winter
2007-2008. "Hm, i thought...it does say 2007...but it also says 2008".
To my utter shock and COMPLETE EUPHORIA, I was told to THROW THEM OUT!
So what did I do? I kept them...ALL of them, for myself! To non-fashion
folk, let me explain the gravity of the situation: GAP Japan is a
publishing house (not associated with Gap Inc. in any way), and every
season, they publish these Collections "magazines" ( i use the word
magazines loosely b/c they're essentially oversized "W" magazine size,
in thick high quality glossy paper, and read much more like a
photography book) and they exclusively feature close-up runway photos
of all the top designers of the world. They publish one magazine for
every relevant Fashion Week city (New York, London, Paris, and Milan).
They also publish both "pret-a-porter" editions (ready-to-wear) and
Couture books. So serendipitously I was lucky enough to find these
particular Collections books for the entire season of Fall/Winter
2007-2008, BOTH pret-a-porter AND couture!!! Aaand I found them for
EVERY city - Paris! New York! Milan! London!--oh my!
The best part is, one can easily buy these Collections magazines at
your local, run-of-the-mill international magazine specialty store--but
they cost around $195 each. So I'm very happy to report that all that
dusting and packing today was really worth it: I rewarded myself with
$1000 worth of mags. Thanks, betch, for the swag..!
 
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