fashion magazine... only advertisements?

I don't think so, maybe to people who aren't interested in fashion yes they do have a lot of advertisements. Fashion magazine have so much more in them then just pictures, I love the ELLE columnist Victoria Coren. She talks about just about everything and anything its not always to do with fashion either it can be about current affairs such as the election or the fight for feminism. Coren always inspires me in whatever she writes about and makes me realise some things even little things are important. For me it is nice to hear somebody else view on society, current affairs or any topic she chooses to write about. I hope one day to be a columnist like her and give an effect on readers, like she does to me. Okay cringe moment has passed, moving on...

When I bought my first fashion magazine it was the March 2013 edition with Victoria Beckham on the cover, she is one of my many favourite fashion icons and I just bought it because, well... it looked so pretty! It was very glamorous and glossy and the masthead was in pink which I loved as (falling into the stereotype) it is my favourite colour! I remember walking out of the Tesco at the top of my school road feeling proud and confident and, although I had plenty of room in my school bag I denied it and walked to school with ELLE proudly under my arm. I walked into my form room and slammed it down on my desk and looked as everyone awed over the free gift I got with it which was a 20% off voucher for Kurt Geiger, which I then spent my next two hour IT lesson, looking for shoes I could buy with my 20% off (I didn't get them in the end). 

Okay so I have to admit that once I first started buying these magazine it was because of either the celebrity on the front or the free gift, but after I bought ELLE with Emma Watson on the cover and my boyfriend was an hour late meeting me (its okay he had a good reason for it!) I read the feminist issue and I loved it, it really spoke to me, I'll talk about that in another post. After that my mum bought me a yearly subscription to ELLE I began reading it properly and I have now realised after all this time what I had been missing out. It wasn't just all about the advertisements they had amazing articles in there! They addressed different issues about feminism and anorexia, all different types (of course there was a lot to do with fashion too, I'm not complaining! I  loved it!). 

So seriously I promise Vogue and ELLE aren't all about the advertisements! There is some amazing journalism in there and you should definitely have a look at some of the articles.