Word: readerly
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...from some Brown tennis courts, I didn’t really investigate Brown culture until a couple of weeks ago.It was then that yours truly attended a dank party in an eerie house, in order to anthropologically investigate the fashion of Brown University. I did it for you, gentle reader. It’s always valuable to keep track of the fashion trends at other universities—doing so makes us aware of how woefully behind we are on all sartorial issues.It wasn’t very hard to find a party at Brown. Unlike at Harvard, where hunting...
...young boy, George, and a cheery astrophysicist, Eric, whose talking computer opens a portal to the known universe. The duo don spacesuits and use the portal to search for planets to which humanity can escape from the irreversible warming of the earth. Along the way, George and the reader learn the basics of astrophysics and astronomy through illustrations and captioned photographs. "You don't need an actual secret key to explore the universe," George ultimately discovers. "There's one that everyone can use. It's called physics...
...21st century remix of 16th century style, the Tudors are more clothing obsessed than the average Teen Vogue reader. As a virile young Henry VIII on The Tudors, Jonathan Rhys Meyers comports himself as the world's first metrosexual, in taut leather shirts, fur doublets and enormous gems. The Other Boleyn Girl, scheduled for release early next year, is less salacious in its interpretation but no less compelling in the fashion stakes. Before the corpulence and the gout set in, Henry was a strapping King, and it's this image that inspired Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell, who conceived...
...Tanna, a Vogue reader since age 12, becoming the title's editor has been surreal. Last winter, during her first Milan fashion week, she was feted by industry bigwigs. "When the flashbulbs went on and Giorgio Armani walked in and embraced me, it was one of those moments I'll remember forever...
...initial circulation will be 50,000, which, Tanna says, is impressive for a new market. "I've had so many moments of falling in love with fashion. For me it's empowering, it's beautiful, it's creative. And truly that's what I wish for every single reader of this magazine: that they learn to employ fashion. It's an important tool. I don't know who said, 'Clothes make the man,' but I'm sure he wasn't lying...