Rebecca Traister has a great little report about Seventeen magazine Editor-In-Chief Atoosa Rubenstein on Broadsheet, Salon.com’s blog geared to women (in a feminist sort of way).
Apparently Rubenstein told Fashion Week Daily that she loves designer Bryan Bradley so much that “I feel like I want to start starving myself so I can wear those clothes now.”
I don’t think you can even pretend that editors of mainstream teen magazines have teenage girls’ best interests in mind when you read something like that.
After you pick your jaw up from the floor, head over to Broadsheet to read Traister’s story. Then write a letter to Seventeen, or something.
Seventeen
1440 Broadway, 13th floor
New York, NY 10018 USA
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