Please be more DISCERNING when choosing who to feature on "Hey Good Looking"!
As readers, we want to know more about the impeccably-attractive kind decked in this season's designer ready-to-wear. This is why magazines like Vogue are so popular: people want to see divineness, not mere mortals. We want to oogle at thosewho are truly model-esq, be jealous of how effortlessly-chic they look and subsequently try to replicate their dressing... with commercially-available mid-priced brands.
But come every Friday, we flip through Urban, only to be stupefied by the "well-dressed" and "charming" gentlemen and ladies you have "conscientiousnessly" selected. Save for the occassional few whose stylish dressing and overall appearance is a veritable pleasure to look at, the rest of them just screams MASS-MARKET! There is nothing wrong with mass-market per se, but we do not want to read about the crowd that we already see thronging Orchard Road every day; honestly speaking, why would we be interested in people decked out in some unknown top from Bangkok which they always conveniently forget the price of (this just SCREAMS Chatuchak market), Topshop bottoms, Charles and Keith mastique shoes and accessories (which they label as vintage! then in any case, everything is vintage "lor") when we, the average readers, ourselves wear the same damn thing???!!
Show us something splendid, Azhar! Show us something that will make us do a double take when we reach your column! Show us people who are REALLY "8.5 out of 10". Show us people that dress infinitely better than us so that we can take a leaf from them, and not take a dig at them!
So, yes Rohaizatul Azhar, you definitely picked the head-turners: you know, the kind people turn their heads away from and flip to the next page of Urban.
P.S. Jim pleads you to have some quality-control: call out the bluff on people who overstate the price of their Gucci Canvas Monogram Red Green Stripes sneakers and whatever designer items they are have on.
LOVE
Gem
Tell me about it!In March 12th's issue some dude claimed his Gucci Monogrammed canvas sneakers were SGD1400? The calf leather sneakers don't even cost more than 1000 bucks!! Who're you kidding man? One thousand, four hundred dollars is a GROSSLY exaggerated price. SERIOUSLY.
2 comments:
Jim dahlin', surely you've read all the criticisms so prevalent in the media (being the schizo hing it is) about featuring unattainables (the model-esques etc.) Perhaps they are erring on the side of caution rather than face hordes of angry parents complaining about them teaching the wrong things or whatever the righteouslu indignant hordes like to claim. after all, no readers, no newspaper :)
eh how come dont wwrite for urban anymore?
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