Yeah-- Jarvis's shoot is decent enough, but could be so much better.
I don't know if they've become adamant, and just coasting on the brand of the publication-- or, if they really, truly believe all this severe blandness, and it really is blander than bland, is their new movement-- like that stupid normcore. Now they're trying for blandcore...
With all the resources, names and labels they're able to wrangle in, it really is disappointing, depressing, and simply lazy that these are the results. Everything is so lazy-looking. Looking through older issues of Arena Homme + and Another Man from even ten years ago, and this issue looks like a draft, a rough storyboard. Unfinished.
Blandcore. Depressing.
Thanks gulsah for the posts!