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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:41:05 -0600
Subject: Zembla, the new Brit-lit magazine,
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STYLE / T: STYLE MAGAZINE | August 29, 2004
Fashion Rx
By KATE JACOBS (NYT) News
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/style/tmagazine/WFASH979.html
Fashion Rx
Illustration by Vault-49
By KATE JACOBS
Published: August 29, 2004
REVENGE OF THE WORDS: Zembla, the new Brit-lit magazine, has the fashion world
reading something other than Women's Wear Daily. A stylishly designed amalgam
of The Paris Review and Paris Vogue, Zembla -- named after a fictional land in
the Nabokov novel ''Pale Fire'' -- has not only attracted fashion advertising
from the likes of Marc Jacobs, Gucci and Issey Miyake, but has also received
contributions from frockland luminaries like Hedi Slimane, Manolo Blahnik and
Nicole Farhi. ''The magazine is a bit like a club,'' says Zembla's editor, Dan
Crowe, ''and the fashion world is keen to buy membership into it because t here
aren't that many smart, attractive magazines around.''
The magazine -- published by the antiquarian book dealer Simon Finch -- offers a
mix of fiction and nonfiction, and while the overall tone is more celebratory
than critical, Zembla is not afraid to poke fun at the literary giants,
especially if they're dead (each issue features an irreverent posthumous
interview). Zembla probably won't appeal to the grumpy Granta set, but what
other magazine's masthead can boast contributors like Brian Eno and Vladimir
Nabokov?
HORACIO SILVA
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