It's a little known fact that I'd love to visit Canada. I suppose I have bloggers & remixrs to partly thank for that (Isabel, Mary, Hannah & Izzy to name a few) but now, I have yet another reason to add to the growing "reasons why Canada is somewhere I must visit pronto" list: WORN fashion journal.
Worn is a magazine I have been wanting to read for over a year now. I suppose mainly because their ethos ("Worn celebrates the ideas and concepts surrounding clothing, rather than focusing on trends and selling products") is one which appeals to me so vibrantly. Sadly, funds have been an issue, leaving me to survive on a measured dose of the Worn blog, tumblr & twitter. As you can imagine then, when issue 9 came out and there was a tweet offering review copies to bloggers, I jumped on the chance! For strictly blogging purposes of course... (shifty eyes, cough cough)
To begin at the very beginning, issue 9 has an incredibly striking cover. It features one of Worn's very own "wornettes" Kate, but what strikes me is the simplicity. Maximum impact, minimum fuss. Just the mood I'm in right now. The back cover conversely, features some lovely street-style shots courtesy of Vanessa Jackman. I presume that Worn picks a different street-style photographer each issue to add a bit of variety to the bucket (though I've not seen any other issues, so don't hold me to that).
It is a reasonably thin publication, which I know some people might have an issue with if it costs real money ($18 for a 4 issue/2 year subscription + shipping. For someone international like me, the cost, at the current exchange rate, works out to about £5-6 per issue - so about the same as most biannual publications. Obviously it's less if you're in Canada or the US) - but I promise you it's worth the money! Worn is not bulked out with page upon page of advert like most magazines, so although it's thin, you're paying for interesting and clever content. The good stuff if you will.
Sticking very well to their motto, I finished Worn feeling more educated, as if my horizons had been widened; not wishing I had bags of money to buy designer cloth (that then prompts me to want to make instead though, so maybe there are some perks in that too). There are a number of magazines which are able to educate I admit, but Worn achieves this without even a hint of pretension. All the articles are clearly well-researched and extremely well-written - whether it be about collars, keffiyeh scarves, Marchesa Luisa Casati or the colours pink & blue. If anything, you finish on a bittersweet note, knowing you'll have to wait until the next issue to read more.
All in all, Worn is certainly one of the most engaging, stimulating and pleasing magazines available at this very moment. It strikes me as something which is on par with Cheap Date Magazine, which again I think I would've loved to read (though I was an wee lass at the time of it's publication, so alas, that didn't happen. I survive by re-reading the cheap date book occasionally). Reading Worn has led me to an intense (and foreign for me) desire to be part of it's creation. Sadly, given the fact that I am a) not err, y'know, in Canada and b) pretty busy studying, it's rather tricky for that to happen. But, I most certainly will be buying back issues/a subscription to keep my fix of Worn to the maximum.
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