Ok, so this headline might be a little misleading. This edition of American Vogue that just went up on eBay is not super old. There’s nothing truly remarkable about this 2000 edition of Vogue save the masthead. Lauren Weisberger, she of The Devil Wears Prada fame is listed as one of the assistants to the Editor in Chief. Amy Astley’s on there too as the Beauty Director.
“In Short…THIS IS A VINTAGE ISSUE, before The Devil Wears Prada or Teen Vogue even came into existence. Carmen Kass is the cover model, and its 274 pages of good fashion from 2000. If your a magazine junkie like me, this is your time to jump on it guys,” reads the listing.
Thanks to reader Warren Wright for sending the listing in. Apparently the seller pilfered the mag from their recent Vogue internship. (“Straight from my past internship, I grabbed this old issue of US Vogue” the poster says.) So despite however intimidating you thought Vogue was, it does not dissuade interns from raiding their goods.
The former Vogue intern/pilferer holds up the issue
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So, in other words, they are selling stolen merchandise? Huh.
I don’t get it: So if it’s not super-old, and it’s not particularly rare, then:
why is this news?
and why should we jump on it?
Here’s a scoop: There are dozens of Vogues (many of which are rare and super old) on sale at eBay—as well as shopgoodwill and plenty of other sites—at any given moment.
Is the seller an employee at Fashionista?
Ugh…she would be Black.
Damn, why did she have to steal that?
What does that mean? Does her being black correlate with her action? Or is it more causation?
*ahem*
Black people steal. It’s a known fact.
The fact that you equate the actions of one person to that of a whole race is only evidence of you’re own ignorance.
I think she’s just trolling.
bahahahahahahahahaha!!! starting to sound like Fashion Fag’s in here ladies.
true
“Reader Warren Wright”, who sent the listing in, is the former intern himself who pilfered the magazine and put it up on eBay.
WOW lol you steal from vogue? great way to leave your internship… and they tell the world… SMART THINKING BUDDY .. DONE.
WOW. interned with this kid and cant believe he would do this…way to f up kid
I LOVED THIS ISSUE. The suits were so, so, so, so beautiful. Yes, I still remember, and yes, I still want a new suit issue. It’s damn time. And yes, I still do own this issue, and it’s sitting in pristine storage at my mother’s house.
(and yes, I was 13 when it came out, and I still loved the suits)
His listing on eBay is proof of it.
So let me get this straight… As an intern he stole an issue from the office archives, which he was most likely not welcome to dig through. He put it publicly online and is trying to make a profit from it, calling it rare and vintage even though it’s not even in the least bit rare or vintage (it’s from the freakin’ 2000s) and anyone could probably buy a back issue from subscriber services. Then he submitted his listing himself to the press to draw even more attention to it. All of this done transparently with his actual identity revealed, even though he was most likely breaking one of the clauses in his office confidentiality agreement.
This kid’s a genius*.
*genius in this case meaning complete idiot
Why did he have to steal it? I intered at W magazine and countless times throughout the semester they would dumb old issues. The kid could have just grabbed it from a trash pile nothing nefarious.
I used to like your witty commentary, Ian. But now you’re just another elitist, racist d-bag. Thanks for outing yourself, buddy. Keep up the good work.
This effing idiot basically just set the race back 400 years. So many people are clamouring to get an internship at Vogue (which is notorious for not hiring blacks or any one of color) and he has to be the one moron who slips in without any home training. I hate this dude. Warren Wright can go jump off the Empire State Building.
LMAO….I’m just shaking things up, part of my subversive humor.
Ian is black – I thought everyone knew that (I’ve stated it several times before – hence someone calling me out earlier on just trolling). I guess not. My bad…
Google me or look me up on FB – Ian Edwards.
Eh.
It was tasteless and elitist when I said it.
The real crime here is jocking an issue that wasn’t even that great?!
You must be really desperate to steal American Vogue. At least try for a hardcover Self Service.
I interned for Conde Nast as well and taking old issues of their magazines is not a exactly crime considering the plethora of issues they have just lying around and the free labor interns provide.
What’s the attraction of Lauren Weisberger on the mast head? The only good thing she ever wrote was the title of her first novel (and that may have been suggested by an editor for all we know). The film’s screenplay was immensely better than her book. She must thank the lord the cover title – The Devil wears Prada – captured attention and sold the movie rights. Her subsequent pathetic attempts have only been published because of the film’s success.
It’s not stolen… mags give away/ throw away old issues ALL OF THE TIME. Only thing wrong with this story is the fact that it’s getting publicity over something quite dumb. It’s only an issue from 2000 not 1960′s
Alright then. My bad.
That guy has a fashion blog called “The Faindent”. He wants to be a creative director for Vogue someday, but judging from his blog he needs to learn how to write a paragraph properly first. Starting practically every time with a “So GUYSSSSSSSSSS” does not make anyone seem eloquent. That being said, he seems like a nice guy, but just really naive.
But weren’t we all when we were young and in love with fashion?
The poor young soul was probably breast feeding in that year (2000); thus in his adolescent mind that is what makes it both rare, and vintage…
I’ve interned at several mags and you ARE allowed to take magazines. It’s not stealing.
I’ve interned at several mags and you ARE allowed to take magazines. It’s not stealing.
Any thoughts from the Fashionista crowd on where to get rid of my old issues of Mirabella Magazine, which was published in the 90s…I have about 80 issues and have no idea how to find a target audience.
Mirabella was Sassy’s older promiscuous sister. People wanted her but not all the time, like a bootycall. I would suggest you to cut out all the editorials and make a political/religious/sexual collage the size of your wall. Find an agent to shop your work around to all the galleries. Either that or donate to the Salvation Army because THERE IS NO TARGET AUDIENCE FOR MIRABELLA.