... That GQ UK tells on the cover that it's "Voted the best men's magazine in Britain", on the contributors' page that it's "Britain's biggest-selling quality men's magazine", and in the editor's preface that it's "this country's pre-eminent lifestyle guide for men"...
... That the Upton Sinclair letter to Esquire from 1962, published in this month's nostalgia column, could remind you that once, men's magazines were respectable publications...
...That the star of the "women we love" department in the same magazine is TV actress Kellita Smith, who happens to be black, but the cover goes to a minor "women we love" model, TV actress Emily Procter, who happens to be white...
... That Art Cooper, GQ US's editor-in-chief, tried pathetically to look like VF's Carter in his op-ed this month, complete with name-dropping, supermodels and the Four Seasons' obligatory mention...
... That People Magazine published this week the jLo-Affleck paparazzi pics without the one in which they read People Magazine...

This is from an hilarious interview with UK Vogue's editor in chief, Alexandra Shulman. It's two weeks old, but I was on vacation, and besides, it's still relevant, I guess nothing changed in the meantime..

By Deborah Ross, The Independant
Alexandra Shulman is 44 and very pretty, with rich brown hair, rich brown eyes and short fingernails that are faintly grubby, which is both something of a shock and a comfort. She's a size 14, I would guess, with a proper bosom, which is also something of a shock and a comfort, this being Vogue and everything. I ask her how she has resisted the pressure to be... well... you know... really, really thin. I mean, Sophie Dahl and Kate Winslet didn't hold out for very long, did they?
I say all this and then realise it sounds just so horribly insulting. It sounds like I'm saying she's fat, which she very much isn't. She's just normal. But, in the world of high fashion, isn't the normal the freakish? Oh, lord. Talk about digging yourself in deeper and deeper. And she isn't fat. Although the more I stress that, the more it seems as if I mean the opposite.
Thankfully, Alexandra stops me burbling on and on in this ridiculous way. "Everyone always asks me about that," she says. Oh dear. "And to be honest, it's not a subject I'm very interested in." Read more