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My eyes are stapled open wide9/3/2023 Magazine pages may have that “ADVERTISEMENT” stamp on them to clarify the paid sponsors just like your favorite blogger shows “#sponsored” or “C/O” under a photo, but the business behind the fashion is always that: a business. To think that a fashion editor considers only the art and beauty (and practicality, if you look at those “best of” articles) in selecting what they include in their aspirational print is short sighted. The influence that market has on the next runway designs is immense, if quiet. Creative teams have those textiles at the show available to them. But the reality is that there’s a massive textile market months before designers start their creative process for the upcoming runway season. There are certainly designers and clothing companies with the sway – financial or otherwise – to work with textile producers ahead of the game and have them design and offer exactly what they envision. Those plaid blanket scarves that were everywhere last year (love them, by the way, and did before they were a trend)? Somewhere in the world, there was a textile manufacturer – or set of them – that decided plaid would be the way to go for Fall 2015. Pull back the curtain a little farther, and there’s even more of a business angle to the trends we see showing with apparent serendipity on runways and then in stores. This is the best I could do,” the relationship between the “trends” and reality is shattered. When a veteran producer and stylist friend hands me a major German magazine she saved for me because she knows of my interest in German and in fashion, turns to the piece she styled, sniffs in disgust, and says, “The clothes were so ugly, but I had to make the best of it. Most of the time, stylists and photo shoot producers get the clothes the day of the shoot, and, well, they have to make the best of it. What I didn’t know then – and, frankly, naively only figured out recently – is that those layouts are not only carefully constructed and styled (but they look so natural!), but that the pieces included, down to the tiniest bauble, are arranged via corporate relationships between publisher, editors, and manufacturers and designers. “The editors must know what they’re doing,” I must’ve thought, “picking this star Just Like Me and showing what she wears every day.” (It wasn’t until later in high school that I relished my dad’s college football jersey, painting jeans, and old green tweed jacket.)īefore the advent of Lucky Magazine’s built-in “must have” sticky flags, I circled skirts with a pen, and I dog-eared pages I wanted to copy. In high school, I doted on magazines showing stars like Khrystyne Haje from “Head of the Class” in breezy poses and ensembles I just had to copy for the new school year. I trusted them to show me – a middle schooler in southeastern Pennsylvania, where, even 45 minutes outside of Philadelphia, we still had 2 days off of school for the Unionville Community Fair and its Harvest Queen Pageant – what was “in,” and what was Fashion, with a capital “F.” Growing up, I devoured Seventeen, Young Miss/YM, and dabbled in the occasional Vogue. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Styes: How you can avoid them and best treatment tips.This article may contain affiliate links if you click on a shopping link and make a purchase I may receive a commission. Efficacy of topical analgesics in pain control for corneal abrasions: A systematic review. Cluster headache: epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, and diagnosis. Epidemiology of primary ophthalmic inpatient admissions in the United States. Diagnosis and treatment of anterior uveitis: Optometric management. Harthan JS, Opitz DL, Fromstein SR, Morettin CE. The diagnosis and treatment of optic neuritis. Scleritis: Differentiating infectious from non-infectious entities. Murthy SI, Sabhapandit S, Balamurugan S, et al. Update on the management of infectious keratitis. "Narrow angles" a tip-off to eyesight risk.Īustin A, Lietman T, Rose-Nussbaumer J. Diagnosis and management of blepharitis: An optometrist's perspective. Conjunctivitis: A systematic review of diagnosis and treatment. What can photophobia tell us about dry eye? Expert Rev Ophthalmol. Galor A, Levitt RC, Felix ER, Sarantopoulos CD. Non-surgical interventions for acute internal hordeolum.
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