Barbara Palvin

[gedeon67]

(insta/official site)

 

[BalkaniStaCouture]

Harper’s Bazaar Greece April 2025 Cover

Photographer: Jonny Marlow
Styling: Carolina Orrico
Makeup: Sophie Haig
Hair: Amber Duarte
Model: Barbara Palvin
(fordmodels.com, harpersbazaar.gr)

 

[Zorka]

V Magazine #154 Summer 2025

LIFE'S A BEACH! WITH BARBARA PALVIN
Photography: Remi Ferrante
Styling: Anna Trevelyan
Hair: Teddy Charles
Make-up: Holly Silius
Model: Barbara Palvin


vmagazine.com

 

[ElleGorski21]

Spur Magazine 2006
Source: Medoo.com.br
First Editorial

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These are actually from Madame Figaro Japon September 2007!

 

[someguy]

These are actually from Madame Figaro Japon September 2007!

Madame Figaro was a reprint of the Spur Magazine Editorial , However , I verified that by industry sources not the actual side by side because the source was difficult enough to locate on the spread I have.

Any chance you have the other for a page by page compare , if so please put it up.

Also sorry for the slow response , with Pinterest crashing I stored a lot there and am now moving it to its new competitor and offsite archives.

 

[ElleGorski21]

Madame Figaro was a reprint of the Spur Magazine Editorial , However , I verified that by industry sources not the actual side by side because the source was difficult enough to locate on the spread I have.

Any chance you have the other for a page by page compare , if so please put it up.

Also sorry for the slow response , with Pinterest crashing I stored a lot there and am now moving it to its new competitor and offsite archives.

I’d love to see your sources!! I run fan accounts for Barbara and I want to make sure my information is updated 🙃🙃! The first picture I found on Pinterest before the creator deleted it. Old Bellazon users in her thread confirmed these as prints from the Madame Figaro editorial!



This link also shows in the pic the Madame Figaro logo near the page number : Pin on Pins by you

 

[someguy]

I’d love to see your sources!! I run fan accounts for Barbara and I want to make sure my information is updated 🙃🙃! The first picture I found on Pinterest before the creator deleted it. Old Bellazon users in her thread confirmed these as prints from the Madame Figaro editorial!

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This link also shows in the pic the Madame Figaro logo near the page number : Pin on Pins by you

So I am just guessing here by you are not connected directly to Palvin herself?
Just running fangirl sites and that’s fine I just would like to know if a indirect line can confirm what I dredged up about a year ago.

I’ll try to reconstruct the process I went through Down to the final reasons for the conclusions I drew. The reason that pages I posted have madam Figaro tags is that in pursuit of a hard copy of what Wikipedia acknowledges is her first editorial , they turned out to be the best quality set of images I could find on Google Images and Pinterest in a broad sweep. If indeed a reprint as reported they are the same images just not authentic to spur.

Now primarily searching through google images , I believe I came across three compete sets from three different sources of these three frames of the editorial
Some with as little as 200x197 resolution. Obviously the best should be found and
Kept in the interest of preservation , I would also spread that around.

Incidentally if you have better shots of the three in question please post them I think mine are at a 600 x point and anything better would be better for anyone to have.

That being said in spite of three correctly time oriented fangirl blogs stating the three pictures being the Spur editorial I didn’t buy it at face. So the first thing I did was to painstakingly track down every other 2006 editorial she had done any thing with a page example to show its nature. Nothing there.

The majority of the images of the three page spread cited as the Spur magazine editorial all contain the madame Figaro mark on the page of her standing by the door.
Blurred but you can make it out and so can I. The next step was to source the photos in question which I determined by the previous searches on google images originate form a fan site BarbaraPalvin.Pl . A polish fan website. There are two sets of these three photos , one watermarked with the website , others scrubbed and omitting it.
The vast majority of fan sites show one of these two sets collected in their catalogue.

But remember , Wikipedia directly asserts with footnote that Palvin’s first editorial
Was with Spur magazine in 2006. It being Wikipedia that should bring credibility so there you go. Pfft. The Internet? The most reliable source on earth come now. this is 2024 when I’m doing this, I don’t buy that for a minute. That lack of faith is quickly rewarded. Wikipedia’s own foot note reveals its cited source post dating the editorial by 6 years. An article in New York Magazine dated 2011. Worse yet , media sources can’t even agree it was an editorial such as a Grazia article in 2016 that states it was a cover shoot. Worse yet as sites have chosen to either delete old articles or hide them behind paywalls , the New York magazine article I read just a year ago is now a dead link on Wikipedia.

From there I was lead on the chase that the Madam Figaro 2007 spread was a reprint
And that the final page in the spread , and if your other picture is correct this source was not even aware that there were five pictures in the reprinted spread not four but they claimed that the spur magazine pages were reprinted with separate photos from a different shoot. Well that’s easy enough look at the pages ( granted I had only three and it may have been five as you have pointed out) but when viewing your two and the three in question a couple things really stand out. Where’d the bright red lipstick go to? Why is her hair less wavy in your two . Visually she just looks different. Period. Suggesting multiple photo shoots.

So at face value I have these certainties in front of me:

- No challenge to the fact that Spur Magazine was here first editorial.
- No challenge on the reprint occurring in 2007
- No real time evidence or response articles stating wait a minute this is BS.

In this case as with Internet research in general it becomes a final answer not because it is completely factual but because it is a theory of massive information that seems to fit the facts.

There is nothing stopping Barbara Palvin , Madame Figaro Japan or Spur Magazine Japan for shutting these widely expressed recounts down as inaccurate. Apalvin would certainly be able to tell you what she was doing in 2006 . She was there. The magazine companies can certainly state that the reprint matter is BS. But they haven’t. For all parties it would be in thier interests professionally that the tale is told correctly.

In conclusion I will not tell you this is gospel truth I know it’s not. I lack the slam dunk piece to prove it.

The problem is the very organizations and persons that should for their own interests speak up and disprove it as they easily can , have not.

Therefore , these are the arguments I examined and why I stick to the Spur and Figaro reprint assertion the whole of sources ascribe too. That yes can be disproven , I doubt that is likely , but I am fine with it because if it does happen bonus! We finally get the clear and irrefutable proof.

Anyway that’s the thought process I went through and the multiple angles I attacked it from. Hope it helps.