Thanks Liberty
It's going really well. I am writing copy for websites who want their readers to think they write it 
as well as some editorial for food publications and websites. I love food and fashion writing but I doubt the fashion will ever get past text for online sites. It is a jealously guarded business! I am getting good feedback.
Because I think things get lost in translation so am prepared to give anybody who has English as a second language the benefit of the doubt. Culturally, English self deprecation does not travel well and actually when I think about is a form of stealth boasting in itself.
I agree that print fashion journalism has been on a down cycle these last few years with a grim clinging onto ideas that have worked in the past and too much reliance on the biological output of a few landed families to staff their corridors. Justine Picardie has revitalised Harpers though- give it a try as it has intelligent articles on culture, current affairs and fashion history. Kate Reardon has apparently done well with Tatler but it is still full of individuals with Hapsburg chins, a sparse amount of genetic variation and the same old surnames.
Vogue USA is looking a bit tired to be honest and Elizabeth von Thurn Und Taxis is a bloody disaster with one of her editorials laughing about how her terrier went out in the Lake District, wouldn't leave the sheep alone, disappeared and reappeared a day later with sheep blood on it. Made me think she was actually an avatar of Liz Jones and her sheep worrying dog Michael. I think Anna Wintour is an amazing editor but she has been dialling it in lately.
Marsha Magazines have photographers/makeup artists and stylists 'locked in' and they look very dimly on their working for others. When Carinne Roitfield left Vogue France to start Look Book No1 she used Vogue known photographers and they suddenly cancelled jobs after being told if they worked for her they'd get no more jobs with Vogue. This was after she was told by Vogue that they wouldn't enforce this.
I imagine that Demarchelier was a) a name they thought most people would know and b) He wasn't tied into US Vogue and therefore would participate in a film that potentially took the piss out of La Wintour. I think Demarchelier does a lot of campaign work and works for the other big magazines - Elle, Harpers, W.
Bonsoir I love MiLK too and I take 'Romy & The Bunnies' the blog by Julia Restoin Roitfield, Carinne's daughter. it is very suck up but has loads of retro photographs of parents with their children. And YES to the Miranda Brooks article although their rooftop Rabbit hutch got them some flak. Do you all look at the US Vogue website? It has a monthly feature 'at home with LSD' where Lauren Santo Domingo goes all gushy over the roosts of the beautiful ones. Gorgeous house porn! Did you see LSD's Paris house? OMG. Decorated by the husband of Betty Catroux, YSL's best mate.
Have a lovely MU, a safe journey Marsha
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Happy Birthday to a special MNVer. We are all thinking of you my love 