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WHY I'VE GIVEN UP ON THE GLOSSY; Patronising, fake and pointless -- thformer editor of Marie Claire on why she's fallen out of love with fashion mags.

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Byline: by Liz Jones

FOR years I have loved fashion magazines. I bought my first issue of Vogue in October 1975. It cost 75p. I haven't missed an issue since and have them all stacked up in my house, in chronological order.

It would be fair to say that fashion glossies have ruled and shaped my life: I have always lived and breathed them, done precisely what they told me to do (I remember a photo of model Sandra Dickinson in Vogue eating a watermelon; it prompted me to eat nothing but difficult fruit for a year) and yearned for the beginning of each month to get my fill of every new glossy tome, so full of promise and fantasy.

My first proper job was on a glossy -- Company -- and I thought I had died and gone to heaven, so happy was I to be allowed to work for a women's magazine. But of late I've fallen out of love with magazines.

I have just been reading the new issue of Easy Living and came across this article. I quote its beginning exactly: 'As an alternative to wine, I'd...

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