Laura, I wonder if you’d consider splitting off your beauty newsletter so we can stay subscribed to magasin fashion coverage and skip the beauty stuff? I love Magasin and have uncovered so many gems here, but found the beauty writing in yesterdays email pretty disturbing both in terms of expense and in terms of a high degree of beauty upkeep I have spent half my life trying to get out from under the thumb of feeling the need to comply with. I know in the era of Mar a Lago face and Is 37 too young for a facelift we’re moving back towards normalizing being high maintenance, which I can’t help but see as connected to all the other ways women are being asked to divert time, money, and agency toward their physical appearance. But politics aside, while I’m guessing much of your readership can afford to invest this much time and money in their physical upkeep, as someone who can’t, I found that last post pretty alienating, something I haven’t felt as your reader before now. Just offering this as a temperature check from a fan of your work who would love to stay engaged with fashion coverage!
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Personally I don't believe those comments were about people hating to see women doing stuff. Most of the comments were written by women. Yes, you (and everyone else for that matter) have the right to do whatever you want to your body. I think people were just shocked because with as much as we know about how harmful the beauty industry is (not only animal testing but preying on insecurities to make billions of dollars), it's sad to see people (especially women because...we are the ones who mostly have to deal with the beauty standards) willingly perpetuate those same standards when we don't have to. It feels like by doing these things, you're willingly giving those people who prey on our insecurities money and saying "hey it's ok as long as my skin is dewy and my lips are glossy!".
Laura, I wonder if you’d consider splitting off your beauty newsletter so we can stay subscribed to magasin fashion coverage and skip the beauty stuff? I love Magasin and have uncovered so many gems here, but found the beauty writing in yesterdays email pretty disturbing both in terms of expense and in terms of a high degree of beauty upkeep I have spent half my life trying to get out from under the thumb of feeling the need to comply with. I know in the era of Mar a Lago face and Is 37 too young for a facelift we’re moving back towards normalizing being high maintenance, which I can’t help but see as connected to all the other ways women are being asked to divert time, money, and agency toward their physical appearance. But politics aside, while I’m guessing much of your readership can afford to invest this much time and money in their physical upkeep, as someone who can’t, I found that last post pretty alienating, something I haven’t felt as your reader before now. Just offering this as a temperature check from a fan of your work who would love to stay engaged with fashion coverage!
yes, High Touch is a separate Section under Substack's structure. It will operate as a separate newsletter under the Magasin umbrella and readers can subscribe or unsubscribe to that coverage as they prefer. It's not for everyone!
I saw that coat walking around last night at the premiere. So good! Also loved the show.
Loved this issue.
Hope you loved! So proud of this show!
Personally I don't believe those comments were about people hating to see women doing stuff. Most of the comments were written by women. Yes, you (and everyone else for that matter) have the right to do whatever you want to your body. I think people were just shocked because with as much as we know about how harmful the beauty industry is (not only animal testing but preying on insecurities to make billions of dollars), it's sad to see people (especially women because...we are the ones who mostly have to deal with the beauty standards) willingly perpetuate those same standards when we don't have to. It feels like by doing these things, you're willingly giving those people who prey on our insecurities money and saying "hey it's ok as long as my skin is dewy and my lips are glossy!".