Cover Rumor Thread

[mepps]

The article says it’s by Tyler Mitchell.

Wow! This would be incredible for him, as a young black photographer.
Hope it's true.

 

[Blayne266]

The article says it’s by Tyler Mitchell.

That would be amazing!! Am I wrong in thinking that he would be the first Black Photographer to shoot the cover of a September issue for Vogue US?

 

[dodencebt]

Tyler Mitchell shooting Beyoncé for Vogue US would make sense at this point. He's shot covers for Teen Vogue already and fits perfectly with her current image. And it would be a huge deal, I hope it's true.

 

[Benn98]

Have we ever seen a Vogue cover shot by a black photographer? Can't seem to recall, which is problematic in itself in a way.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

That would be amazing!! Am I wrong in thinking that he would be the first Black Photographer to shoot the cover of a September issue for Vogue US?

Not wrong, it would indeed be historic, Beyonce as the first black woman to get Sept cover, twice. But also him being the first black photographer to get to shoot the cover, in US Vogue’s 126 years. So they have a selling point, i bet Anna is already gearing up the PR department. But the fact it took them this long....shameful!!

 

[luchang732]

The images are gone,could somebody please post it again？I really want to collect them in HQ

 

[ThatGuyPaul]

Tyler Mitchell shooting Beyoncé for Vogue US would make sense at this point. He's shot covers for Teen Vogue already and fits perfectly with her current image. And it would be a huge deal, I hope it's true.

I'm almost 99% definite it's Tyler.

 

[MaisonOfVanity]

Is his work any good not familiar with him at all.

 

[MDNA]

Namie Aumro for Vogue Japan October by Luigi & Iango.

 

[Benn98]

Namie Aumro for Vogue Japan October by Luigi & Iango.

Lol, I thought you were reaching when you said she may get a Vogue Japan cover!

 

[MDNA]

Lol, I thought you were reaching when you said she may get a Vogue Japan cover!

I wasn’t lol, and this basically is a win-win situation. Isn’t she like the Madonna of Japan? A successful celebrity also known as a style icon. And now she will become the first Japanese female singer to grace the cover of VJ, which seems pretty fair in my opinion. Otherwise, VJ’s covers are usually revealed around 16th September, also the date she will retire, so this ensures that her cover will get maximum attention and her fans will rush to snatch their copies when it hits the newsstand, even though VJ is not that desperate for sales by using celebrities.


My favorite Namie video.

 

[JPineapple]

I'm excited for Tyler Mitchell but, Beyonce? Again? Anna's choices are becomig predictables af.

 

[caioherrero]

I wasn’t lol, and this basically is a win-win situation. Isn’t she like the Madonna of Japan? A successful celebrity also known as a style icon. And now she will become the first Japanese female singer to grace the cover of VJ, which seems pretty fair in my opinion. Otherwise, VJ’s covers are usually revealed around 16th September, also the date she will retire, so this ensures that her cover will get maximum attention and her fans will rush to snatch their copies when it hits the newsstand, even though VJ is not that desperate for sales by using celebrities.


My favorite Namie video.

And for VJ October is the september

 

[MON]

If Tyler Mitchell indeed is the photographer for US VOGUE September, are we to expect another Indie magazine vibe from them? Is this the new direction (ala Jamie Hawkesworth for August)

 

[aracic]

^ God, please no. We sure did ask for a change in the direction but not the one like that. Only thing that could be worse than what they were doing so far is an indie vibe, which is so against everything they've been doing for... well, 126 years. It would make sense if it's indeed Anna's final issue, like adjusting to the change or whatever it's just that I'm personally not ready for another fashion magazine to go the indie way and kill the weak sense of glamour they would occasionally have.

 

[Sensation]

Don't care for Beyonce but interested to see a new photographer for Vogue.

 

[tigerrouge]

Are big print magazines looking at indie titles and thinking "Well, they've always had low circulations but have managed to survive?" And now they've decided it makes sense for them to move towards that business model?

Indie works when it exists as an alternative to mainstream glamour - when you have various publications in the market contrasting with each other with their content, truly offering an alternative.

But when even mainstream titles go 'indie', it feels more like the entire industry is collapsing in on itself from lack of direction.

Anyhow, my only input about the UK Vogue September issue is that yesterday they sent me a letter asking me to subscribe ahead of it - when I'm already a subscriber until the end of the year. They can't even manage a database these days.

 

[Benn98]

Anyhow, my only input about the UK Vogue September issue is that yesterday they sent me a letter asking me to subscribe ahead of it - when I'm already a subscriber until the end of the year. They can't even manage a database these days.

Maybe this is their idea of being proactive, lol.

Despite Vogue and it's ilk's aggressive pandering of youth, they don't actually have the youth in their pocket. The indies do however. And as a result advertisers are looking more towards indies to collaborate. I can't recall when last I've seen an advertorial in Vogue or Elle. Yet you can almost find one in every issue of POP.

It would be very interesting to see circulation figures of indie magazines, just to get an idea how much of an impact they really have.

 

[Bertrando3]

Indie works when it exists as an alternative to mainstream glamour - when you have various publications in the market contrasting with each other with their content, truly offering an alternative. But when even mainstream titles go 'indie', it feels more like the entire industry is collapsing in on itself from lack of direction.

I absolutely agree on that assessment. I´m so freaking tired of seeing indie stuff EVERYWHERE!!! As Anna said in The September Issue documentary to Edwards then: ``Where´s the glamour? THIS IS VOGUE!´´ .

I used to be a HUGE American Vogue reader and fan, I have years and years of subscription in my house but nowadays there´s no glamour in Vogue: where are the diamonds, the luxury hotels, all the things Vogue represented???? Vogue isn´t Elle, I´m a man but to me Elle represents the aspirational-everyday-modern woman who has to pick up her kids, go to work, look cool and healthy and know everything about how society works today. But that´s the opposite of Vogue: Vogue to me represents the power, the old days glamour, the luxury, the excess, the over the top life that almos nobody has. But maybe that´s the problem, perhaps women stopped buying Vogue because it looked too far away and detached from the 21st century lifestyle. I understand very few modern-day-working-women between 25 and 45 years old nowadays want to know about how to look superb in 10 inch stilettos and buying fur and having a bag that costs 3000€ or to look at couture dresses in ridiculously made up editorials staged in billionaire mansions HOWEVER I still think we need Vogue today to remember what luxury and the unattainable life was. Vogue is like a bible from the past, it should remain, like a piece of a museum. I agree that it might not be what women want and perhaps that´s why Vogue had to go the indie route in order to not die and to remain present in the lives of women today. But as a man and a photographer I want to see that eccentric life with loads of diamonds and amazing couture dresses in mansions, not the little Jenners and Hadids playing dress up with their off-the-moment boyfriends. I want supermodels, I want drama, great dresses and Steven Meisel. Is that too much to ask to Anna? Or is the publishing world that dead and now ALL that matters is just everyday silly selfies on stupid influencers?

 

[8eight]

ha! I've had that VOGUE letter almost once a week it feels like.