Before I begin this post let me be clear in saying: the following is only MY opinion and in no way is it an effort to sabotage or change anyone's mind set on purchasing V-Magazine.
Ok, well I have been what I guess you can call a "subscriber" to the fashion magazine, V, since spring of 2008. However, because of mismanagement with the good people over at V it took me more than 5 months to receive the mammoth of a magazine.
Before taking the virginity of my first issue of V, which was titled, " By the grace of Goude", and featured legendary model, Grace Jones, on the cover, I realized that most of V's impressiveness was held in it's size alone. Finally, I broke the protective seal and pulled back the first page, and then I flipped to the next, and the next, and I began to realize: The magazine is just mostly adverts. Now, don't get me wrong, it does contain some articles most of which I found to be largely uninteresting.
Needless to say, the best part of the magazine has continued to be the spread the correlates with the cover. And everything else just tends to be, well, just everything else, with most of the adverts repeating from issue to issue. As for the current issue that I have just received (winter 2009-10) I dont even know what is in it, because I have developed the habit of just throwing them into a decorative pile beside my computer.
So, the verdict is in, V magazine is a conversation piece insofar as your speaking to someone who has never seen a magazine it's size before. However, the conversation stops there, with it's innards being largely redundant, and it's centerfolds being just OK, once you have talked about this magazine once, there is simply no need to speak of it again. Ultimately, it's a foreign magazine that has taken on the face of just another boring American magazine.
NOT to V!
- J
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