I Wanna Be Sedated
On Salon, Stephanie Zacharek calls new-wave shopping magazines like Domino heinous, insidious, anxiety-inducing, numbingly unoriginal and dictatorial, and trashes their editors for presuming readers are stupid—but then goes on to reveal that that was the idea all along.
In a February interview with the (U.K.) Independent... [former Cond Nast editorial director James] Truman was unapologetic about the whorish nature of the shopping magazines — Lucky, Cargo and Domino — that were his brainchildren: "They have a kind of punk-rock quality of rebellion to them," he said, "and I felt they were a truthful reflection of what was going on in the culture. Everything is for sale. There is no point in pretending otherwise."
