Vogue is better than you and me. More specifically, Anna Wintour is better than you and me. If you're in Anna's vicinity, you'd better hope you've got your own oxygen tank on hand because even the air is inherently hers. So when Anna decides to steer the Vogue ship towards blogging, Facebook and Twitter - facets of the Internet that have been around almost as long as Elle Fanning - you'd better be goddamn sure she's going to be hailed as a visionary. Albeit a visionary with bifocals. A print magazine with a dot com address? Who woulda thunk it?!
I can't help but feel a pang for the "second-rate" Elle right about now. The fashion mag's Internet presence was heavily documented on Whitney Port's (much missed) Hills spin-off, The City. Who could forget Elle's creative director Joe Zee gooing over his favorite lazy intern, the famed toothpick socialite Olivia Palermo, while hardworking dynamo Erin Kaplan scowled in the background? Olivia was handed chance after chance (on a silver platter, naturally) to shine as an interviewer for Elle's dot com video snippets - an opportunity she fucked up so often that the magazine was forced to bring in a ringer, British media star Louise Roe. Ah, the haute couture drama that ensued! Sigh. Happily, there's still a way to fulfill your City cravings (but don't tell Anna - "fulfill" and "cravings" are dangerously close to that nasty four letter word "food") by checking out hilarious recaps on the beloved I'm Bringing Blogging Back. It doesn't have to end!
Word up, Ms. Wintour - Vogue got bested. Even though MTV reality shows aren't found on high fashion approval lists, the proof is in the pudding. Not that we can blame you for being unfamiliar with pudding...
[Ed. note: Yes, I know the proper idiom is "The proof of the pudding is in the eating" but I opted to use a little creative licensing for flow. Anna's still not going near the pudding, no matter how we phrase it!]
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