THE SEPTEMBER ISSUES
If you know fashion and follow trends, then September is a much anticipated month for you. Major fashion magazines release their larger than life issues that is a look into the fall/winter seasons. Fashion houses advertise and show off their current campaigns. I looked at 6 major magazines and what I found is that summer as bled into the fall/winter with lighter color pallets such as light pinks and tan.
This 2012/13 season we are seeing a mixture of looks that are making their way back. Military inspired garments and Velvet is a popular fabric again. With all the content in all these magazines I singled out 2. Vogue and G.Q (Gentlemen's Quarterly) are my go to magazines and this is what I found in their September Issues.
Vogue always takes risks that always blows people like myself away, they placed Lady Gaga on the cover looking like a statue with far out hair, Gaga said in an interview she was channeling Ru Paul with this look, she has achieved !! The spread of over 900 pages gives THE insiders look in woman's fashion for this season, from Dolce & Gabanna's baroque inspired black and gold heavily embroidered looks to McQueen's outlandish one of kind pieces. This issue does not disappoint in the least, you can easily use this issue as a guide to create looks from an affordable price point with stores like H&M, Forever 21, Target and even JC Penney.
G.Q, my bible and go to magazine has not failed me, it inspires me and helps me, a man who is slow in his own personal style progression push the envelope a little faster. When G.Q endorses a product, they not only show you Tom Ford's or Prada's version but they also show you Aldo's and Banana Republic's version as well, then it is up to you the reader to know where your pocket book will lead you. With colors like red, black, olive and brown this season for men is not as bright as summer was, but color that pops is still the theme. Bright and pattered socks are all the craze, so no matter how dim your look is you can easily introduce that wow and pop factor.
