Gorgeous, gorgeous issue
.. if I could pick another time to have been born in, I would pick the early 40s, world war arrival lol, they experienced their 20s in the 60s, with all of this exuberance and excitement for modernity, freedom, curiosity for other cultures, and fashion constantly being pushed to new limits.
Love
Folie Désertique and its unapologetic opulence and extravagance, and that they went with color for that (unlike the majority of the other stories). Same for
Iran, those pictures of Isfahan are soo beautiful... you just know the photographers went a little nuts with the ceilings, as you should!.. I have never felt more spirituality and goosebumps than inside these Silk Road beauties (and I was raised Catholic and not even sure who's Mohammed and who's Allah but.. felt all the
). I know the Shah did some awful stuff but it's so sad how exile profoundly impacted that family even decades later, and how the alternative was no better..
Also cool to see Audrey's modeling, and Françoise was just divine.. she and her husband really captured the spirit of the times.
And I love these angles from below that were so popular back then, I think that's why the new issue of Vogue Australia doesn't bother me as much, it flopped, but their intentions with Margot were coming from a good place.