pointy, 14cm-heeled Love

silver platform heels, diy nude tights




The first stand on the market, a table full of late 90's platform shoes, all too grotesque, squared and worn down. At that moment I wishes I had been there earlier and hadn't mised my train. During the autumn hollidays the market is packed with "hip vintage girls", wich isn't a good thing because the prices of all the second hand rubbish raise to those of vintage boutiques.(I refuse to pay 70 euro's for a faux fur jacket) Anyway, the man of the stand just realized he had forgotten to unpack one last platic bag of shoes. And these pointy 14 cm-heeled babies came out, in two different colors! I got them at 5 euros each, my mood got much better and my hopes of going home with a load of clothes to refill my wardrobe went up. Unfortunately I didn't have much more luck. But with the shoes in the bag my day was made.

SHOCKED

Did a simple investigation for an article last week.
Counted all the ads and brand names in Glamour Magazine.
I chose Glamour for a few reasons: because it is the best selling "fashion" magazine in Holland, pages are small and printed on thin paper, meaning that there is less appreciation for images (nothing looks good on half A4, shit paper) and offcourse it is much cheaper to produce.I knew I was going to find a huge amount of ads, but the results truly shocked me. It is seriously nothing more than an advertisement leaflet disguised as a "fashion" magazine. I am frustrated the most with people who keep on buying Glamour and with that prove that all the studies done by the corporate robots behind it are right, that readers don't care about quality, and that the majority of them can't tell an ad apart from real content.

the numbers...
279 pages in total
- 69 ads
- 10 self-promotion pages (entire page filled with nothing more than the word GLAMOUR or SUBSCRIBE)

200 Pages remain.
On those 200 pages I found 594 brand names.(advertisers mentioned the most offcourse)