Let me tell you about magazines... high fashion and fabulous to us. Confusing and slightly scary to a 12 and 9 year old.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my nieces [my nephew too, but this story focuses more on them]. They innocently sing to Taylor Swift and All American Rejects about their dirty little secrets... I am weary of this but I bought them rock band so i cannot bring that up.
This past weekend I spent with them their grandmother brought magazines over for my sister, she "gets them from the home shopping network, but would never read these kinds of magazines." my mom gets them too so I benefit from them when I visit her.
So here we are my family and family in-law actually interested in what I do for a living and hey one of the ads I have worked on is in one of said magazines.
Fast forward to my 12 year old niece taking in the photo editorial of Britney Spears, my sister thinks her kids are twins but Alissa knows that they are brothers. Girl is with it.
But when she sees Brit Brit in a fabulous blue feathery coat sitting in a cage [see below] some questions and interesting observations arise.
"She looks like cookie monster, who would wear this it is scary"
"Why is she in a cage" Brianna pipes in
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my nieces [my nephew too, but this story focuses more on them]. They innocently sing to Taylor Swift and All American Rejects about their dirty little secrets... I am weary of this but I bought them rock band so i cannot bring that up.
This past weekend I spent with them their grandmother brought magazines over for my sister, she "gets them from the home shopping network, but would never read these kinds of magazines." my mom gets them too so I benefit from them when I visit her.
So here we are my family and family in-law actually interested in what I do for a living and hey one of the ads I have worked on is in one of said magazines.
Fast forward to my 12 year old niece taking in the photo editorial of Britney Spears, my sister thinks her kids are twins but Alissa knows that they are brothers. Girl is with it.
But when she sees Brit Brit in a fabulous blue feathery coat sitting in a cage [see below] some questions and interesting observations arise.
"She looks like cookie monster, who would wear this it is scary"
"Why is she in a cage" Brianna pipes in
Then we flip on to see an editorial where one of the models is dressed like a man, she has a mustache and all [very prettily painted on, I would have torn this spread out because it is pretty with great accessories, but I digress] There is a debate between the 2 girls over whether it is a man or not, I explain how her make-up is put on for her to look like this >> it blows their minds "why isn’t it just a man?"
We continue to flip thru the magazine and come across a Calvin Klein ad with Eva Mendes [thank goodness she has clothes on in this one] "Aunt Amy why is she all wet?" a question that I have no answer to. Why IS she all wet? it is a very interesting thing.
They watch TV, they read twilight [even thought they weren’t supposed to] so to see this reaction was sweet. The "haute" fashion that we so regularly take advantage of... it was nice to get a fresh innocent perspective on.
