Louis Vuitton F/W 09.10 : Madonna by Steven Meisel

[Lily530]

Well I think it's divine!!

[Manuva]

This isn't a Louis Vuitton campaign - this is Madonna fan art made by someone who has been experimenting with layers on Photoshop at best.

[pasha]

Originally Posted by robster16

Who is to say this specific look wasn't the point from the get go? Photoshop, retouching is an integral part of photography now, accept it, get over it! Artists will continue to use new techniques and look for different ways to use them and create different styles! You might not like this look, but don't blame photoshop. They used as much work on pics of M in the 90's compared to now. It's just more advanced work, more advanced processing and more stylised. It's progress, advancing of techniques. Think of it as the transition from painting in oil, to watercolor, to photography to well... retouched photo compositions!

Someone pointed out Tamara de Lempicka, good observation, and considering that Madonna is a big collector of her paintings and has used them as an inspiration many times before might make this whole look come together!

No need to bark. People may have different ideas about how a photo should look like. Pascal Dangin is at work again: I bet he charged at least 250,000 just to touch these photos. Madonna needs so much work to look decent nowadays. Those are not her arms, cheekbones, lips, or even face-shape. No one is criticizing this system: we have all accepted it. But it is insipid to create such a debate here when someone thinks that she looks robotic here.

To me the photo looks more like M&M rather than Meisel, for one.

Plus, no matter how much de Lempicka she collects, I bet her only input to these photos are 'make me look young, and not like Gollum as I usually do.' Meisel does whatever he wants. Who is Madonna to say how an ad campaign for the biggest luxury brand is supposed to be shot? She is the model. She should thank Marc and Yves Charcelle for keeping her relevant at these twilight years of her popularity.

[Acid]

Originally Posted by Manuva

This isn't a Louis Vuitton campaign - this is Madonna fan art made by someone who has been experimenting with layers on Photoshop at best.

yes it is real, i've actually seen the whole set and the video

[Manuva]

^I was being facetious; I just can't take the campaign seriously.

[Spike413]

Originally Posted by robster16

Who is to say this specific look wasn't the point from the get go? Photoshop, retouching is an integral part of photography now, accept it, get over it! Artists will continue to use new techniques and look for different ways to use them and create different styles! You might not like this look, but don't blame photoshop. They used as much work on pics of M in the 90's compared to now. It's just more advanced work, more advanced processing and more stylised. It's progress, advancing of techniques. Think of it as the transition from painting in oil, to watercolor, to photography to well... retouched photo compositions!

Someone pointed out Tamara de Lempicka, good observation, and considering that Madonna is a big collector of her paintings and has used them as an inspiration many times before might make this whole look come together!

I'm well aware that photoshop is used on pretty much everything. I mean come on, even George Hurrell retouched his photos back in the 30s, so you aren't exactly opening my eyes to the truth or anything. And I also know that this image was the desired result, not merely an accident. But, imo, the methods used to achieve the perfect image are being overused by many fashion and beauty photographers these days and the aesthetic they've created has become old and boring at this point.

On second viewing this reminds me of Meisel's campaign for Prada S/S 07, though that one was done better...at least if this shot is anything to go by.

[Urban Stylin]

better than her prev ad

[FashionPower]

Way too photoshop,it's just weird
Gimme the slutty Madonna back

[retailqueen]

It is better than I expected but still mediocre. The photoshop makes the whole thing look really cheap and Madonna could have well been a mannequin.

[robster16]

for refference sake, this is a picture of Madonna taken yesterday, after a day or rehearsals for her tour with zero make-up on her face and a harsh paparazzi flash in her face. She does not have a porcelain skin like the photograph, but her skin is flawless.



source: www.allaboutmadonna.com

[Northern Star]

As everyone has said photoshopped to hell and back......but....and I am grimacing writing this........I kinda like the pic......deffo some DeLempicka influence here, but I'm a huge fan of her work so there you go, maybe that explains why I like it.
Of course really need to see other pics and photoshop this bad really is a standing joke, but what I've come to expect right now.

[pasha]

I like the face and the arms. Sheer perfection. Very LV.



insider.com

[Northern Star]

[quote]

Originally Posted by robster16

for refference sake, this is a picture of Madonna taken yesterday, after a day or rehearsals for her tour with zero make-up on her face and a harsh paparazzi flash in her face. She does not have a porcelain skin like the photograph, but her skin is flawless.

Maybe so but they really wanna start photoshopping her hands

[caliboy672180]

I. Want. Mert And And Marcus Back.

[robster16]

Originally Posted by pasha

please do not quote images. thank you.


I like the face and the arms. Sheer perfection. Very LV.



insider.com

Your point being? The picture I posted is from yesterday, so that is what she looks like right here, right now. The picture you posted is not only old, but also unfortunate. And doesn't really make a point, like... at all!

Oh, and to the person commenting on her hands. Her hands have always been veiny. She had the same hands when she was in her 30's! And besides... she's aging, what are we gonna do, blame her? Suggest she crawls away and stops existing?

She can still deliver the goods, and then some! I'm not particularly fond of the ageist element in society that tends to judge you on the year you were born in.