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Please note that the deadline for submission of PARIS HILTON issue vol.1
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PARIS HILTON issue vol.2 will be hitting the newsstands on DECEMBER 10TH!
PARIS HILTON issue vol.2 will be hitting the newsstands on DECEMBER 10TH!
FRONT ROW the paris review
article by Eric Wilson
PARIS HILTON, through no fault of her own, appears on the covers of two fashion magazines hitting newsstands this month. One is a straightforward friendly endorsement of Ms. Hilton's celebrity: the June issue of Harper's Bazaar, where she appears with erstwhile best friend Nicole Richie, both in Chanel tweed coats. The other cover, on the esoteric quarterly aRude, is a far more poisonous statement about the cultural fascination with Ms. Hilton, that which ostensibly justifies her appearance in Harper's Bazaar. There is almost nothing inside it -- just 12 pages of thick laminated cardboard, like those of a children's book, scribbled with questions: ''Do you, like, really like, think she's, like, over-exposed?'' ''Aren't you jealous of her?'' ''Who should she marry?''
Iké Udé, a Nigerian-born artist who has published aRude as an unvarnished study of the inhabitants of style for more than a decade, described the issue as his first ''vanity project,'' one intended to encourage debate on the immeasurably shallow circumstances of Ms. Hilton's fame. Asked if it was not perhaps a meanspirited venture, Mr. Udé said the issue was, in fact, very well intentioned. ''It is in a Dada spirit,'' he said. ''I was thinking about what would happen if Tristan Tzara was to do a magazine about pop culture. It is intended to make the audience who consumes Paris Hilton, and some who pretend they don't, become involved and for once to say what they really think about her.''
The overlap with Bazaar was coincidental, he said, as was the timing of both issues to Ms. Hilton's pending incarceration for violating probation. But he noted the barely disguised glee in TV coverage of her sentencing and suspects it will lead to more thoughtful commentary on the polarizing phenomenon of Ms. Hilton. Readers of aRude are being invited to respond to Mr. Udé, who plans to publish an unabridged collection of their submissions this fall, also on laminated cardboard. As a metaphor, it promises to be more complimentary to the heiress. ''It's going to be as thick as the September Vogue,'' he said.
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company
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article by Eric Wilson
PARIS HILTON, through no fault of her own, appears on the covers of two fashion magazines hitting newsstands this month. One is a straightforward friendly endorsement of Ms. Hilton's celebrity: the June issue of Harper's Bazaar, where she appears with erstwhile best friend Nicole Richie, both in Chanel tweed coats. The other cover, on the esoteric quarterly aRude, is a far more poisonous statement about the cultural fascination with Ms. Hilton, that which ostensibly justifies her appearance in Harper's Bazaar. There is almost nothing inside it -- just 12 pages of thick laminated cardboard, like those of a children's book, scribbled with questions: ''Do you, like, really like, think she's, like, over-exposed?'' ''Aren't you jealous of her?'' ''Who should she marry?''
Iké Udé, a Nigerian-born artist who has published aRude as an unvarnished study of the inhabitants of style for more than a decade, described the issue as his first ''vanity project,'' one intended to encourage debate on the immeasurably shallow circumstances of Ms. Hilton's fame. Asked if it was not perhaps a meanspirited venture, Mr. Udé said the issue was, in fact, very well intentioned. ''It is in a Dada spirit,'' he said. ''I was thinking about what would happen if Tristan Tzara was to do a magazine about pop culture. It is intended to make the audience who consumes Paris Hilton, and some who pretend they don't, become involved and for once to say what they really think about her.''
The overlap with Bazaar was coincidental, he said, as was the timing of both issues to Ms. Hilton's pending incarceration for violating probation. But he noted the barely disguised glee in TV coverage of her sentencing and suspects it will lead to more thoughtful commentary on the polarizing phenomenon of Ms. Hilton. Readers of aRude are being invited to respond to Mr. Udé, who plans to publish an unabridged collection of their submissions this fall, also on laminated cardboard. As a metaphor, it promises to be more complimentary to the heiress. ''It's going to be as thick as the September Vogue,'' he said.
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company
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