Newspaper columnists

We will be discussing fashion columnists on Thursday. My favourite is Hadley Freeman.
Having read the article about Vogue that I have asked you to read I can see that this is because she is both highly ironic and also slightly deprecating about the fashion world and that this is what particularly attracts me.

Interview with the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine about how sex still sells.

Helen Gurley Brown

We will be talking about the author of the best-seller Sex and the Single Girl this week and her influence on women's magazines. Here is an interview with her in Vanity Fair in 2007.

June 1828 millinery fashions

La Belle Assemblée

This is a useful site to gain an impression of the types of fashion shown in this early 19th century magazine.