Marissa Mayer in Vogue fashion shoot Yahoo! boss Marissa Mayer has sent the digital chattering classes into a frenzy after posing for a series of buttoned-up photographs for fashion bible Vogue. In an entirely predictable reaction to the Vogue spread, feminist bloggers unleashed tens of thousands of words of purple prose discussing Mayer's decision to appear in …
Vogue is getting increasingly tech savvy, with a recent Google Glass shoot showing that the worlds of high fashion and hi-tech aren't as far apart as they used to be. Is it just a matter of time before the two worlds lean in even closer?
Nnnnnooooo... it's bad enough that we have to put up with fanbois belief in their favourite iDevice being a 'fashionable life accessory' we really don't need the fashion fucktards getting in on the act. Technology should be functional, practical, useful... not fashionable. Good technology should be virtually invisible to your everyday life, just being there and doing what it is meant to do for you reliably, when you want it to.
I hate to burst your bubble but the reason iPhones are considered fashionable is _not_ due to technology. In a case of massive irony, the technology (the chip wizardry and the Os) _is_ completely invisible (as you wish it were). What people are appreciating is the physical design, the packaging of the technology if you will.
It's a mistake to think people value function over form. Most don't. We all like a bit of beauty in our lives and there is no reason that technology cannot be beautiful.
I think they did it in a inside setting, fake grass(or just temporarily laid down) could be, although studio lightning on the outside doesnt seem impossible either. Its just washed out of all colour.
Although you could be correct in that they photoshopped 2 photo's together, it wouldnt surprise me.
If Branson can dress in a stewardess-and-lipstick outfit for advertisement, I fail to see what the problem is with these particular pictures. We do not need to analyse everything a female CEO does in terms of gender issues, just because she is female.
If any CEO can get to advertise for their company by doing a photo shoot, let them. I remember Larry Page and Sergey Brin did an interview for Playboy, and the only reason that got them into trouble is that it was during the quiet period leading to the Google IPO.
You, sir, have a very sick mind. ;-)
Now I am infected as well! Cannot get that image out of my head. Imagining that the furniture collapses beneath Balmer's weight helps a bit, I find. Imagining he will throw it at somebody helps more.
Either aspirin or loads of beer might erase the image entirely
Guess what I will try ;-)
Looking at her in context,...
Won't someone please rid us of the troublesome photographer who thought this was a good pose?
OK, she's working hard at turning around a company that has been failing and for the last ten years has turned into the standup comedians one sentence all-in-one-joke-and-punchline. So I can see where she'd be willing to try something different like interviewing with and posing for a fashion magazine. But in all honesty, I think women will only achieve real and functional equality when ideas like this one are assumed to be bad and need to be proven otherwise before women accept them. Yes if I was 20 years younger and 70 pounds lighter and I saw her at a bar I'd probably try to pick her up. But if she's coming to talk about tech and/or career, she shouldn't have to wander off into that territory.
On page one of just about every issue of Vogue since time began has been an advert for a diamond encrusted piece of bling.
If Vogue were at all about style and sophistication they would ban the advertising of such hideous crap.
Also, WTF is Yahoo! I've never seen it.
That may be, but in printing terms Vogue is most certainly a benchmark.
In magazine publishing if you want to be better than everyone, Vogue is the one to beat. It's been done but so far all the upstarts have fallen by the wayside one way or the other (usually they've run out of money - gone broke trying).
It's a little demeaning to put a qualified woman into some kind of glamour shoot. However, she had a chance to promote her company in a well-known magazine, and as the story suggests, I could see a male CEO doing a feature in GQ. So why not?
Mine's the Oscar de la Renta being carefully cradled by my valet.......
Is that where the CEO shoudl be ?
"an effort to bring a more coherent look and identity to Yahoo’s pages. For an intense 80 minutes, Mayer does most of the talking, getting deep into the weeds about the size of navigation buttons, background colors, and spacing between columns. Working through a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich and a cup of pretzels from the cafeteria"
from the vogue article
> Mayer does not look so much passive as she does rigid and brittle,... and a set of straps on her Yves Saint Laurent stiletto shoes
IT is a creative industry. As such people within it will judge their peers (and betters) by their achievements and what they have produced. That's what wins respect.
However as soon as an IT woman gets publicity, it seems that all that the women columnists care about are her looks. her colour scheme and what she's wearing. Whether it's Mayer, Whitman or Rometty (HP and IBM) there are more column inches written about their clothes than about their skills.
Seriously, giving those people airtime is exactly what they want, and they don't deserve it at all. The last time of the three that I had to explain to some dipshit Gawker author that "stealing" a free software project (we would call it "forking" in these parts) isn't frowned upon, or illegal, and is encouraged by the FOSS community (seriously, I dont expect non-tech news to get the total philosophy but at least knowing that Free Software does not have "piracy" isn't too much to ask) and having to explain to people just how fucked up of a business Oracle is from how they treat their customers, and how much of an asshole Larry Ellison is to boot, I gave up. If it isnt sensationalism, especially sensationalism to fuel racial or feminist tensions, Gawker doesn't get it and this applies to all of their outlets, Jezebel being among the worst.
And keep in mind this is the same organization which tried to raise 250,000 USD from readers to buy a videotape from a drug dealer supposedly showing Toronto's Mayor smoking crack.
What a lot of hot air being blown about here about a CEO worth around $300m posing in a rather interesting way for a STYLE magazine. Photoshopped or not - who the f**k cares! Would you rather see Donald Trump?
Here's another CEO in an arguably stylish photo, although I'll freely admit that I prefer Marissa's...
http://archive.aweber.com/woceosinsider/N7GJo/h/CEO_Insider_Your_Weekly.htm
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