Fashion-as-politics might at times appear in the magazines’ pages, but only as “a catchy idea for a ‘fashion story’.” While these magazines clearly wanted to avoid being associated with “mass culture”, and most editors were “unashamedly elitist in their desire to create a luxury magazine for well-to-do readers”, she noted that fashion simultaneously saw itself as occupying a lowly position within “high culture” (as well as within serious journalism). In her 1998 book, British Fashion Design, the cultural theorist Angela McRobbie argued that the editors of magazines like Vogue clearly believed fashion ought to avoid politics, and that fashion journalists were expected to comply.
The Economist declared, “Rulers of the world: read Karl Marx!” Another seemingly unlikely publication asked, “So how can teens learn the legacy of Marx’s ideas and how they’re relevant to the current political climate?” That publication was Teen Vogue.
The reasonably serious treatment given to many of Karl Marx’s ideas, on the 200 th anniversary of his birth last year, was surprising to some.
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