Vice moved beyond ad-magazine status with "Heavy Metal in Baghdad," a 2007 documentary about an Iraqi metal band trying to survive in a war zone.
Perhaps, given the magazine's status as a bastion of British society, the Queen might say the same of Vogue?
When Eric Rohmer was removed as editor, in 1963, and replaced by Jacques Rivette, it was with the purpose of renewing the magazine's status as an "instrument of combat" in favor of the new cinema, which included the New Wave.
The same year Taylor ascended to gossip-magazine fixture status when she was given a then-massive $1m fee to play in Cleopatra, where she also conducted a very public extra-marital affair with Burton, her co-star.
From 1984 to 2005, Emigre magazine achieved cult status.
Bryony Stone, editor of Wonderland magazine, thinks the status plastic bag isn't new: "it's a 2016 version of early 00s schoolgirls parading around with Jane Norman bags, a plastic badge of honour" she explains.
All contributed to the rise of Jonah Lehrer, the 31-year-old author, speaker and staff writer for The New Yorker, who then executed one of the most bewildering recent journalistic frauds, one that on Monday cost him his prestigious post at the magazine and his status as one of the most promising, visible and well-paid writers in the business.
"No one has really placed this living, breathing 90s meme in a serious light," Rogin Losa wrote of Oliver Tree in STATUS magazine earlier this year.
Working inside and outside of government, in California and in Washington, D.C., Shireman's successes earned him Money magazine "money hero" status for his work on college affordability.
