Ads can be pretty and ads can be cool, but no matter what, they’re produced solely to pursuade you to buy stuff. And I know part of the reason people follow fashion is because they like to — they like buying stuff — but it’s the only category of entertainment that doesn’t make any real kind of value distinction between the actual content and the ads which are supposed to support its creation. It’s nuts: people whine when they have to watch a thirty-second commercial before a YouTube video, but cram a fashion magazine full of advertising and suddenly it’s a must-have issue.
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[via Fashionologie]
