I love to peruse my beloved fashion magazines. Today I have in hand the May 2011 
summer issue of Bazaar. Lady Gaga is on the cover. Lady Gaga, for everyone who is not up on the latest trend is the ‘it’ girl (for now). She is so outrageous she makes Madonna look like a sorority girl waiting to pledge. But what makes her so popular? What makes anything popular or trendy? Is it the appeal in magazines and on TV? We see certain celebrities over an over again with their wrinkle-free skin, their long silky hair and oh yes, their physically impossible bodies. The media in concert with celebrities creates and unobtainable world for most of us. We look at these faces and feel a certain intimacy with them. We know who they are dating, what they are wearing and how they stay so slim. [Read more…]