The Year 2007 in Magazines
Folio, the magazine of magazines, has published a three-part article on magazine happenings in 2007. It reads like an extra-long TV show recap, but it’s required reading for anyone in the biz, or anyone who needs to pretend they’re in the biz at new year’s parties. Here are a few favorite moments.
GQ’s alcohol advertisers pull out of the magazine’s Lindsay Lohan issue. Why? With the exception of the French Quarter, she’s not legal.
Time’s 100 Most Influential People list includes Borat, Bin Laden, Obama - and, thankfully, not “You.”
Men’s Fitness puts tennis player Andy Roddick on its cover, and promptly gives him Rafael Nadal’s biceps. Roddick writes on his blog: “Little did I know I have 22 inch guns and a disappearing birth mark on my right arm…. I can barely figure out how to work the red-eye tool on my digital camera. Whoever did this has mad skills.” Furious, design consultant Mary Anne Bulter resigns.
Slate’s Timothy Noah calls the Tom Junod-penned Angelina Jolie profile in Esquire the “worst celebrity profile ever written.” Junod calls Noah a disgruntled Yalie.
Vogue wins FOLIO:’s first-ever fall fashion issue weigh-in, lumbering into the Red 7 mailroom at 4.88 pounds.
The Atlantic Monthly celebrates its 150th anniversary with a star-studded party in New York. The party planners, though, decide to hold the event in a theater, reserving the “stage” for VIPs and the rest of the venue for NIPs. Awkward.
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