Vogue Paris Collections Spring Summer 2012 Issue 13

If I haven't said it already, I will say it now: December is my favorite month out of the year. Not only is it the holiday season (Hello giant magazine gift wish list!), but this is the month that the 13th issue of Vogue Paris Collections was released. I just went on TFS browsing the different magazine threads, since I didn't know the exact release date, and a thread had already been started. Can I tell you that when I saw that Alexander McQueen was on the cover, my heart stopped beating for a couple of seconds. I adore Alexander McQueen and the legacy he left behind, so who better to honor by giving the cover?
I haven't gotten my own copies as of yet, hopefully they will start appearing on the secondary market, which is where I always get my copies. It might take a couple of days, hopefully not weeks for the distributors to get them out. I am eager to get a look inside. Winter has not even officially begun according to the calendar (and the bizarre NYC weather) but I am already looking forward to the spring after seeing some of the spring collections shown starting in September shows. So run out and reserve your copies, lovies, you won't regret it!

xoxo,
September's Love Child

Photo credit: Vogue.fr

People Style Watch

I know that I have said that Vogue Paris Collections are my favorite magazine, but People Style Watch follows at a VERY close second. Not only does People Style Watch make fashion accessible, but you can get the looks worn by celebrities at a significantly lower price. I absolutely adore celebrity street style and I pour over page after page of photographs taken by paparazzi. I know that most celebrities are given designer items to wear as advertisement a lot of the time, but heck, they sure do a good job mixing designer with "lower" brands, and that in itself is an art.
People magazine has always been one of my favorites. Not only do you get the newest celebrity gossip (who doesn't love a good story), but you also get stories having to do with real people around the country, around the world. That is something that the other gossip magazines don't offer. And the Style Watch section in the back of every issue is what I turn to first, so having an entire magazine dedicated to celebrity style trends is paradise for me. Because People magazine is so inexpensive and frequent, the first issues of Style Watch are so, so hard to find, even harder than finding back issues of Vogue Collections. While I knew that the "official" Style Watch magazine was first published in 2002, I had no more information concerning the first couple of issues. My collection consists of every issue from 2007 until now, except for a few missing issues: February 2007 and June/July 2007. Before 2007 it gets tricky: the issues were not real eased monthly but seasonally. I own now: Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Winter 2005, Spring 2006, Summer 2006, and Fall 2006. As you can see, it is very hard to even know which issues I'm missing pre-2007, as there was no clear pattern. But every story must have a happy ending in my book. Just this week, I've found and purchased the following issues: Spring 2002 (The premiere issue), Fall 2002, and Fall 2004. Hopefully the other missing issues will follow as well. I haven't gotten them yet, but when I do, I will be sure to scan all of the covers of my complete collection.

UPDATE 12/05/11: Today I just purchased more issues from the same seller: Spring 2004, Spring 2005, and February 2007. Now, I only need Spring 2003 and June/July 2007 to complete my collection, but by the looks of things hopefully they won't be that hard to find!

xoxo,
September's Love Child