Arena Homme + #43 Spring/Summer 2015 by David Sims

[DanielWP]

Arena Homme + #43 Spring/Summer 2015
Photographed: David Sims
Model: ?

Limited, hardback edition.
Gianni Piacentino by Juergen Teller

Source: thehommeplus.com

 

[madzedre]

David Sims? really? This is a mess to retro for me

 

[DanielWP]

450+ pages is pretty impressive in terms of mens biannuals. We'll see if the content is just "a filler but not a killer..." The Hawksworth, Klein and McLellan trio sounds promising.
I don't expect any interesting cover from this magazine for a while now, so I'm not surprised about these.

 

[MON]

Hoping for better content. These covers are a mess

 

[lewak]

Wow wow WOW what a wonderful surprise I was told this was out end of the month.....

Love all 3 Sims. want to own the purple one NOW...... Actually maybe the bike one!


And that old guy on the bike is a legend of Arte Povera It's so Juergen Teller to get a shot like all those 50s-60s guys you see now in their racer bike gear

This is The Daddy

 

[testinofan]

ugly covers

 

[phungnam96]

reminds me so much of cheesy 90s magazines.

 

[lewak]

Interesting, which cheesy 90s magazines?

The Face? Sleaze Nation? The former art director Scott King works for Arena Homme+ but I don't think he does the covers....... He's a pretty big artist these days

 

[jeffandtheworld]

Too 90s. Ugly layout. Fashion is about moving forward.

Next.

 

[fashionlover2001]

Doesn't feel like David Sim... Very Dated.
Where's the minimalism and Sterility I expect and Love from his work???

 

[Royal-Galliano]

surprisingly enough, i like the first three. not sure if the contents will impress me though.

 

[GIVENCHYlover]

ugly all

 

[Phuel]

So this deliberate bland, amateur lazy-looking style will also infect Arena Homme + now...

There's nothing 90s-looking about this kind of ironic design; it's just lazy and doesn't move design and fashion forward. I get the irony of one of the most (once) influential men's publication brands cobbled together by the industry's most high-profile names with the most expensive labels looking like a cheap fanzine. Yes, very ironic, very post-modern and all that crap. Just lazy.

The Piacentino cover looks the strongest, only because the others are so stupid-looking. And I've always been unimpressed by Arte Povera. Pretentious and desperately contrived-- just like this AH+ now.

 

[kokobombon]

I don´t like the covers but I´m intrigued by the "Prada in Cuba/Teller in a clinic" tagline...

 

[DanielWP]

Pretentious and desperately contrived.

You summed it up perfectly.

 

[Phuel]

I don´t like the covers but I´m intrigued by the "Prada in Cuba/Teller in a clinic" tagline...

I'm going to ruin it for you kokobombon by predicting that the editorial you're so intrigued by will look like the same old, same old bland, empty, and pedestrian shots that this team has been plaguing all the other once influential and visionary publications. The shoot will be on the streets of some nameless location that will just look like any generic street anywhere, although it's Cuba by title-- they won't bother scouting the beautiful and vibrant 1950s-style locations. The normcore-looking model will be dressed like he's on his lunchbreak from operating his Caterpillar truck, even though he's wearing tens of thousands in Prada. The photography will look like it was shot on an iPhone 3G and the layout will resemble a 12-year-old's MySpace page from 2006.

Irony!

 

[kokobombon]

^you just ruined it for me! ink:

 

[Phuel]

^^^ lol

 

[lewak]

The cover sells are all quite intriguing!!!!

Surely it's too easy and not enough to just put some "elegant" image and a couple of words. Arena Homme+ has energy

"Prada In Cuba".... it's like Miuccia's communism taken home to some mid century modern casino or something.... Let's see if you're right.... all the playas going to hate hate hate

 

[rebel]

Prada in Cuba
Sean and Seng - Photographer
Andrey T. - Casting Director




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