Morning Musing on Vogue
Luvlies, Good morning. Waking up to my CHFI playlist as an alarm puts me in the right mood. Cutting Crew’s ‘I Died In Your Arms’ sends my mind down memory lane, but in a good way. So today I went down a quick 90s rabbit hole, reminding me of the time I would be in my room for hours, with my beloved magazines. I don’t share my love for textiles and fashion as much as I’d like to on my platforms, but when I say I was focused when it came to garment construction as a youth, I mean it. Every fashion and design magazine was purchased on a monthly basis and carefully studied. US Vogue wasn’t my favourite, but I devoured the March and September issues like no tomorrow. As an adult, I stayed faithful to their digital content, only because Vogue was the brand that maneuvered the great Digital Pivot the best (in my opinion).
When this new girl Chloe Malle was announced as the editor for US Vogue, I didn’t think much of it. In fact, when hearing of Anna’s looming departure, I immediately thought of Charlton Heston (Google the reference. It’s free!) and how this transfer will play out like the last 15 mins of the Devil Wears Prada.
Malle… Maille, as in the french mustard Maille? No, as in Candice Bergen’s daughter. Ahhhhhhh it makes sense now. It’s giving Social Register lite energy. I had no idea Murphy Brown had a child, let alone one who could write well.
Candice and Martha fall into similar categories of women for me. I was too young to understand Mary Tyler Moore, but I loved Murphy Brown (a show about people on a spectrum working in a fast paced news office) and Martha’s moxy of pushing through male dominated fields, while wearing crisp white oxfords. Older women who took risks and who knew how to do things. Malle’s hiring feels like an extension of that era. A woman raised by a Murphy Brown type, must be formidable in some way.
Their mother-daughter duo interview for the Vogue podcast popped up on youtube and I was pleasantly tickled. Their witty banter, chatting about mother topics and watching Chloe being lovely to her 80 year old legend of a mother was something different. But this interview had a deeper message behind it. We, the viewer, were soft launched into Malle’s pedigree and were reminded that US Vogue is still a rag for the connected NYC set.
Nothing has changed.
…and that’s time. Still here? Leave your thoughts down below.
See you tomorrow Luvlies!
xoxo Luv Laney Luv
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Morning Musing is a pomodoro-timed, free thought experiment to get back into the swing of things. No Ai added.
