VOGUE News, Jul 31, 2012

Rose in the Baekdu: An Imagined Vogue Profile of North Korea's New First Lady The Atlantic (KCNA). When Vogue defended its glowing profile of Syria's "thin, long-limbed" first lady Asma al-Assad last year, a senior editor with the world's preeminent fashion magazine argued that the glowing article "could open up that very closed world a very little bit. See all stories on this topic »

Lochte Chasing Phelps From Pool to Vogue Pursuing Double Gold Bloomberg After dominating swimming's world championships since Michael Phelps won eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the 27-year-old Floridian who endorses green sparkled high-top sneakers and has his own sports apparel line is entering the ... See all stories on this topic »

Revolution's Blacked-Out Future World Won't Be a Dystopia Wired News BEVERLY HILLS, California — It may be set in a future world deprived of electricity and beset by bands of marauding swordsmen, but upcoming television series Revolution won't be a downbeat doomfest, according to executive producer Jon Favreau. See all stories on this topic » Wired News

'Mrs. Assad Duped Me': Joan Juliet Buck Speaks Out About Vogue Profile Styleite Yes, usually Vogue does not deal with such heavy matters as dictatorships or violent uprisings, but out-of-touch leadership at the world's best-known fashion publication can clearly have serious consequences and affect the reputation of an entire industry. See all stories on this topic »

'Supermodels' film reveals sometimes ugly side of beauty CNN The New York native is regarded as the world's oldest working model and started at Voguemagazine at the tender age of 15. Another eyebrow-raising moment comes with anecdotes from another octogenarian: Machado, who became the first ethnic model to ... See all stories on this topic »

Recreating Offline Retail in an Online World: 10 Questions with Sephora Digital's ... Wired News She talked to Wired Business about the importance of offline retail in an online world and how technology can enhance the real-world retail experience. Wired: Early this year, Sephora launched a new website and installed iPads in 21 of its 319 stores so ... See all stories on this topic »

Vogue Bests Competition with Big September Issue mediabistro.com It's tough to beat Vogue. That's the case quite often when it comes to the fashion magazine world, and once again this year, Vogue has proven itself a worthy competitor. We reported on the September issue ad page numbers for most fashion titles yesterday, ... See all stories on this topic » mediabistro.com

Vogue Magazine's Age Issue 2012: Celebrating Fearless Women Huffington Post Winston Churchill's youngest daughter <a href="http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/biography/biography/family" target="_hplink">had a bird's-eye view of history at 11 Downing Street</a>, and served in World War II in a mixed-gender anti-aircraft battery as ... See all stories on this topic »

Vogue Writer Tries, Fails to Successfully Justify Fawning Asma al-Assad Profile Jezebel The real victim of the ongoing Syrian massacre is Joan Juliet Buck, the writer whose Vogue article on Assad's glamorous wife, Asma, cost her "my livelihood and end[ed] the association I had had withVogue since I was 23. .... He rebuffed international nuclear inspectors, rejected U.S. attempts at diplomatic engagement, stretched out peace talks with Israel (Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman accused him of undermining peace, calling Syria "the center of world terror"), ducked fallout from WikiLeaks revelations ... See all stories on this topic »

Alt Text: Cleaning Up the Olympics, Genetic-Engineering Style Wired News Genetics is the answer. Image: Lore Sjöberg/Wired. Once again the world bears witness as thousands of Olympic athletes convene to be tested as they've never been tested before, and then if they pass the tests they get to compete in some sports. bug_altext ... See all stories on this topic » Wired News

Supermodels: Sex, Drugs and Aging ABC News Mix it all together and you have photographer-filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' "About Face: Supermodels Then and Now," an elegant romp, laden with tidbits of social history, through the fashion world of the last 60 years. The story is told by Christie Brinkley, Jerry Hall, Beverly Johnson, ... Harry King, the '70s hair stylist, and Nancy Donahue, a supermodel who'd graced the covers of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, were hosting it for Facebook friends. "I was dragged to the party," Greenfield-Sanders, whose ... See all stories on this topic » ABC News

Microsoft Paid $1.2B For Yammer. But You Can Have It For Free Wired News The almost-4-year-old company is part of a new breed of startup that seeks to find its way into the world's businesses by offering a free service that office workers will start using on their own. The idea is that once their employees are hooked on the product, ... See all stories on this topic » Wired News

The Oracle of Girl World New York Times By the time Teen Vogue named her “the luckiest 13-year-old on the planet,” in 2009, Ms. Gevinson had appeared on the cover of Pop magazine and starred in a video for Rodarte's Target line. Later, she was profiled by both The New Yorker and The New ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Five Courses of Rat at an Art World 'Post-Apocalyptic Hunter-Gatherer Feast' on ... New York Observer “I'm going to be on the cover of Vogue: the post-apocalypse issue,” she joked. Ms. Ginn's work explores self-sufficiency and survivalism, with an underlying acknowledgment of ... The dining room was decorated sparsely, with two large plywood tables draped in bleached-out American flags (one of them embroidered by Ms. Ginn with a quote plucked, rather strangely, from the ABC Family series Greek: “To a new world, gentlemen. Good riddance to the things we hated and may we not miss the things we loved. See all stories on this topic »

HBO 'Supermodel' documentary more than skin deep SouthCoastToday.com The film opens with an extended profile of Carmen Dell'Orefice, famous for being the world'soldest working model. She's been a fashion model since the late 1940s and first made the cover ofVogue magazine when she was 15. After turning 80 last year, she ... See all stories on this topic »

Vogue weighs in, literally, with September issue Marketplace.org A previous Vogue September issue, seen on the left, was 850 pages long. To view this ... Stacey Vanek Smith: Fashion magazines seem to be en vogue again. ... With 658 pages of ads, it will be Vogue's thickest September issue since the financial crisis. See all stories on this topic » Marketplace.org

New HBO doc explores the ugly side of fashion TheCelebrityCafe.com The documentary starts off by interviewing the 81-year-old Carmen Dell'Orefice who is considered to be the world's oldest working model. The New York native who started modeling for Vogue at the age of 15 openly compares her plastic surgery to repair ... See all stories on this topic »

World's royals descend on London The Daily Telegraph Many of the visiting royals have been here before in one sense - as past Olympic athletes themselves or as key movers in the world of sport. Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik got in on the action a day early, carrying the Olympic torch on Thursday through the ... See all stories on this topic »

Miranda Kerr's Vogue Turkey Cover Is Rather Odd (PHOTO) Huffington Post Kerr posed for the August 2012 issue of Vogue Turkey, sporting dramatic wide-legged pants and a deeply cut top on the cover. Lensed by ..... Oh, also, just as a note: She was the 7th highest paid model in the world last year, making about $4M. #1 of course ... See all stories on this topic »

Video: Watch Olympic Sailor Anna Tunnicliffe Take to the Waves Wired News “Each person has their own job,” said Tunnicliffe, whose current crew finished second at the Women's World Match Racing World Championships last month. “Everybody listens to everybody else. Yes, I drive the boat, so I have the ultimate say, but it's usually ... See all stories on this topic »

''Moore'' Vogue Theatre funding needed UpNorthLive.com Filmmaker Michael Moore is known for helping bring back the Traverse City State Theatre, and now he's focusing on the restoration of the Vogue Theatre in Manistee. The project to restore the 74 year old theatre was started last year. They are hoping to open ... See all stories on this topic »

'About Face': Yesterday's supermodels take a long look in the mirror Washington Post As with many documentaries about fashion folk (“Unzipped” and “The September Issue” both come to mind), though, a certain antiseptic quality is always present, making it difficult for the narrative to arrive at a solid theme: Is the fashion world a wonderful thing or a cultural travesty? Is this a movie about the rigors of modeling? A lost era? ... In the cokey Studio 54 days, “the look of the girls changed,” observes Jade Hobson, a former fashion director at Vogue. “They stopped smiling.” On the subject of age, the women in ... See all stories on this topic »

How VMware Embraced Its Open Source Nemesis Wired News But in acquiring the swashbuckling Silicon Valley startup Nicira, the virtualization giant is also shifting even further into the world of open source software, a world it was once very much at odds with — and in some ways still is. Nicira builds virtual computer ... See all stories on this topic »

World leaders jump on Twiplomacy The Daily Telegraph But the rise in so-called "Twiplomacy" resembles something of an echo chamber, according to an analysis of 264 government accounts in 125 countries that the PR firm Burson-Marsteller describes as the first-ever global study of world leaders on Twitter. See all stories on this topic »

London Olympics opens up a world of opportunity for "old man" gymnast ... CultureMap Houston In the June issue of Vogue, the muscular 5-foot-1 Horton posed with 5-foot-11 model Karlie Kloss in a photo shot by Annie Leibovitz. “I come from a long line of short people,” he joked in the Voguearticle. “It's almost like I was designed for the sport.” “I'm 26. See all stories on this topic »

How to Defeat the Air Force's Powerful Stealth Fighter Wired News The fast, stealthy F-22 Raptor is “unquestionably” the best air-to-air fighter in the arsenal of theworld's leading air force. That's what outgoing Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz wrote in 2009. Three years later, a contingent of German pilots flying ... See all stories on this topic »

Olympic Archers Target Better Gear for Straight Shots Wired News “Usually it's very difficult to go from compound to recurve,” says George Tekmitchov, an engineer at Hoyt Archery, which provides bows to the World Archery Federation and the U.S. Olympic Team. Wait. Back up. What's a recurve bow? The recurve bow is the ... See all stories on this topic »

Wonks Question HP's Claim to Computer Memory Missing Link Wired News Basically, he noticed a gap in the mathematical equations describing the world'selectrical circuits, and he built a new equation to plug this hole, foretelling the existence of the memristor. Like a resistor, he said, it would create and maintain a safe flow of ... See all stories on this topic » Wired News

En Vogue Turn Into Catty Divas: Morning Mix Idolator: All About The Music Deadmau5 is the latest in a long line of musicians to make inroads to the fashionworld. The knob-twiddler has teamed with skate-and-surf designer Neff to create a line of hats, shirts and hoodies. [SPIN]. After the jump, find out which music acts you can find ... See all stories on this topic » Idolator: All About The Music

Why Do Supervillains Fascinate Us? A Psychological Perspective Wired News So when dreaming of superpowers, maybe you relate to characters who dream of power as well, from the Scarecrow (who controls individuals' fears) to Doctor Doom (who's perpetually out to dominate the world). Payback: Batman not only protects the ... See all stories on this topic »

Houston's Esparza draws first-round bye in Olympics Houston Chronicle Houston boxer Marlen Esparza combines the grace of a Vogue cover girl - which she is - with the toughness of a street brawler. Photo: Smiley N. Pool ... Ren topped Esparza in a quarterfinal bout at the World Championships in May. The two losers in the ... See all stories on this topic »

Supermodels as They Age Are Focus of Documentary New York Times “You still want to be in the world, making a mark on the world.” ... Beverly Johnson, the first black model to grace a Vogue cover, in 1974, had misgivings, intensified, she confided in a phone interview, when Mr. Greenfield-Sanders showed her early images. See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Heroes and Villains Are Gone From A Once Crowded Sky Wired News When I first read the premise of Tom King's new novel, A Once Crowded Sky , I was doubtful — a novel about a world of superheroes and villains where they've all lost their powers? Seriously? The title of the book is obvious, but I was really wondering if a ... See all stories on this topic »

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Ed Vogue's World: 80's Desserts Ed Vogue's World. Comments on Ed Vogue's Life - Middle aged musings ... Ed Vogue: I'm a busy family man. I have a full time job, an allotment, like to bake and ... edvoguesworld.blogspot.com/2012/07/80-desserts.html

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