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By: Barrie Barton
Date: 18th Mar 08
Format: Magazine
Motivation: Improve your dinner conversation
What:
Monocle 1st Birthday Issue
When:
On stand now
Where:
Most newsagents so choose one with nice staff. Or online.
How much:
About $15
Birthdays are good for you. They must be because the people who have the most birthdays live the longest. So it is with unreserved celebration that we congratulate Monocle on a stellar first year in print. In this short time it has turned the whole idea of magazines and news reportage on its head.
Every month a beautifully designed, pristinely shot, assiduously researched, stunningly packaged and well-styled volume hits the shelf with a resounding thud. Sure the odd article is so pretentious one might rather slit their wrists with a platinum Amex card, but for the most part this straddles the world of news and prestige quite effortlessly and you're just not civilised if you don't read it.