Why i-D? Why?
Dear i-D,
I have a bone to pick with you. What is up with this Mimi fiasco? I happen to spend more than enough money buying magazines and an exorbitant amount of time reading them both in print format and online, for those I don’t happen to purchase. Over the years I have matured and my taste in what I want to see in fashion magazines has changed.
I breeze over the fitness and life stories sections, glance at the beauty section, concentrate mostly on the fashion editorials and ads, and very rarely do I even skim the cover story concerning whatever celeb is hocking their newest project that month. This, at least, is the format for most US magazines, but i-D, I usually love reading you and your Euro mates because there is a lot more edge to your editorials and less focus on what celebrities think about fashion, so why is Mariah Carey on your cover?
Sure, when I was younger I would sing “Heartbreaker” over and over while dreaming that one day I would be able to hit those high notes. I even watched Glitter more than once, and I consider myself to have pretty good taste in movies. Unfortunately, somewhere between that and “We Belong Together,” I realized midriff tops and daisy dukes were not cute on anyone and stopped caring. When I realized she put Wentworth Miller in “We Belong Together,” I was a but stoked, but this was after the fact because I didn’t know who Wenty was until I saw him on Prison Break. I take Mariah for who she is, but I know for a fact she is not, I repeat NOT, edgy fashion mag material.
I’m not sure how a magazine can go from calling Agyness Deyn, who is almost my generation’s new Kate Moss, an ICON, to putting Mariah Carey in a skimpy black bikini on the cover the next month. Is this your tactic to keep us fashionistas on our toes? Are you trying to start bring back the 90s ab-baring trend Mariah is oh-so-good at? I’m so confused!
Will I ever be able to see ‘(insert month) issue of i-D’ in a thread on The Fashion Spot and be excited knowing I’m going to experience a fantasia of fashion related eye-gasms? I don’t think so. Now, behind every link I’m going to think I’ll have another “what the fuck” moment followed by a month a great concern?
Please next month, recommence with your normal awesomeness, or else I may have to shun you forever.
Xs & Os
Chelsea Rae
Photo Credit: The Bosh
I don’t particularly like her though I do have great respect for her vocal range.
HA HA! Her vocal range is quite impressive, I can’t even hit the normal notes in tune much less those super high ones she likes so very much.
It’s the tacky ironic thing that i-D so love to indulge in….
Yeah! There is definitely a bit of irony in there somewhere, but I’m not sure how much irony I can take…ha ha!
Yeah, she’s a great singer blah blah blah. Any magazine with Mariah Carey on the cover in a bikini loses all credibility in my book. That’s probably because I simply don’t like MC.
Honestly, there are very few people I’d like to see on the cover of a magazine in a bikini, especially magazine like i-D and the bikini Mariah’s wearing. Maybe I wouldn’t be so adverse if they went super creative with the cover and editorial, but they didn’t and I’m disappointed.
p.s. I’m not really a fan of her either.
Definitely not a fan of her more recent albums, or her choice of husband (Nick Cannon? Really?). She doesn’t do it for me anymore. And I have to wholeheartedly agree that I am sick of celebrity-centered fashion mags of the US. Blech. It’s irritating. It’s one thing to like a celeb’s style of your own accord but to have it shoved in your face constantly? No thank you.
Yeah, when I see a celeb on every fashion magazine for a certain month, it kind of makes me dislike them…
I agree. They did such a good job with Agy and now this? Why i-D????? She’s so… tacky.
Very true. She could be so classy, but the clothes she chooses are really trashy usually.