Cover Rumor Thread

[yourbestfriend]

Yes he did shoot that supplement cover and ed

We're discussing black models in Meisel stories and covers for VI, but what about the Asians? None in the past decade at least

He shot Hye for one editorial at the beginning of her career called "madame". It had Lily Donaldson and Gemma in it. Though nothing since

I hope we see some new faces in the supposed Vogue Italia issue...maybe it's a little harsh but I feel some of the newer faces need to be pushed, and not so much the older ones because I just think it will be harder for them to push through if they ahve already been around for a few years...so in that case no Mimi Roche or Ajuma..

New girl Arlenis at Marilyn is beautiful, maybe Austria Ulloa Alcantara? and of course Jourdun Dunn...

 

[Manuva]

^^Topless covering her front? I swear that is so f***ed up!

Seriously! That's a serious error in judgement from Vanity Fair.

 

[Gaultier_Bandit]

Do I spy a country version of Lindsay Lohan? Only smaller, younger, less voluptous and with a glitch in her speach (lisp perhaps?, I cannot pin point it out!)

 

[ChicParisienne]

Of all people Miley?? Oh ok, so Vanity Fair is a teen magazine now, that's great!!!

 

[tocceve]

yes ENglish is not my mother language so it was very hard to read this article but from theimagist:

The Week IN HISS: A NEW Landscape

But to get off the high horse and get back into the hiss...TI waits with bated breath for that issue of VI. The willingness to even shoot it shows Sozzani's and Meisel's ability to be market leaders and shrewd ones at that. Has there ever been an all Meisel issue of VI? Or is that aspect of the hiss misinformed? Who will make that final edit in that story? It will be interesting to sit out May waiting in suspense. I know the TFS brigade is already organizing around the question of the May VI cover. All I can say is guys, you ALREADY know. She is very much on the forefront of your buzz right this minute.

the whole article was nice really and I share this point (although I really like a lot of the young girls)

Submitted by Wayne on Sat, 2008-04-26 16:24
I think this means Jourdan will be on the cover

 

[harrietcamilla]

more theimagist buzz

Most of all I love where fashion is going right now. If the typical consumer could see into the crystal ball of what is happening in those inner sanctums of corporate magazine offices I think he would be heartened. Big Media I suspect has looked at what is brewing with Google/MySpace/Facebook/Youtube and vital information centers like TFS and MDC and they realize the consumer today is not passive and is not WAITING to be informed on anybody's corporate schedule.
This week TI was first to "soft-release" the news that an "all black" issue of Vogue Italia was looming. I soft-pedaled the story at the request of several sources because :
A. The edit was still being shot.. and is still being shot this weekend and...
B. That means no-one but Meisel and his team knew EXACTLY what the final result of that shoot will look like.
But buried in that diversity post was a bigger story than just an "all black issue of Vogue Italia". What I do know is that across the board, at all the Vogues there is a clear understanding that in this new consumer landscape, where the everyday buyers of the product have their own strong opinions about the imagery around the product, this shift cannot be ignored. At Vogue Paris, there is a coming processing of this shift. The same is true for British Vogue as well as Vogue US. But as the comments on TI have posited, 'diversity' does not only mean black and will not work as a one time statement.
Nor is the shift in consciousness limited to a question of race. Look at the current US Vogue for instance. As a joked I said to my colleague "Have you noticed that the girls (Coco) (Maryna) actually have arms as opposed twigs-for arms?" . It is exactly as Fashionhow's Christie Denham explained to me " Women in their 30's and 40's are the ones with the income, who can EASILY stop to buy all those beautiful things you see in advertising. A 15 year old on a runway is nice to look at but that is the daughter of the woman who buys not the woman who buys "
"Aha", I thought "The corporate kids are not being random. They probably have market reserach stats flashing all that! Thus the Return (yet again)Of The Supermodel. Claudia Schiffer...Linda ...Naomi...they have grown up to be the reflection of the rich real estate's mogul's wife who has nothing all day to do but shop!"
The question is , will a consumer friendly ideal of fashion... racially diverse, with a range of body types, marketed around the mature glamour of an iconic supermodel keep fashion in the "directional" zone? Or will that road lead to banality? Well the alternative, which is to keep everything looking exactly the way it looks now would be redundancy. If fashion doesn't change then it is not fashion. Fashion magazines and campaigns have looked the way they have for 7 solid years now. There will be designers, when advertising their product and when casting their runway shows who will rightly argue that they have the perogative to put together their vision of fashion built on their personal tastes and preferences...for a certain silhouette, for a certain sameness of girl...But then the cost of that MUST be the right of the consumer to reject that "certain silhouette", that "certain sameness" . If this were an industry that was solely about the art of the thing and the vision of artistes, then why solicit a mass market as a public company? If the "directional" dress... (directional, that is based on "restrictive and exclusionary") sits there in Barney's not selling, then let that be the final vote on the issue. Exclusive and exclusionary should not be the same thing in the modern world.
But to get off the high horse and get back into the hiss...TI waits with bated breath for that issue of VI. The willingness to even shoot it shows Sozzani's and Meisel's ability to be market leaders and shrewd ones at that. Has there ever been an all Meisel issue of VI? Or is that aspect of the hiss misinformed? Who will make that final edit in that story? It will be interesting to sit out May waiting in suspense. I know the TFS brigade is already organizing around the question of the May VI cover. All I can say is guys, you ALREADY know. She is very much on the forefront of your buzz right this minute.

theimagist.

we already know whos on vi? ok i assume its natalia then.

 

[tocceve]

^oh I forgot that the black issue is not shot yet sorry
and this part was about the May cover mhm so maybe it will really be Toni (okay I'm not too optimistic)

Linda Evangelista?

 

[ChicParisienne]

I'm more sure now that its Linda, I mean..."TI's back button, you ALREADY know, forefront of your buzz", who else?

 

[tocceve]

Daria Strokous will be in V 53 in an editorial with IMG models?

there's no doubt in my mind that next season this young Russian will claim her rightful place among the new runway stars. For the here and now, be sure to catch her in V53's IMG Powerhouse feature, photographed by Mario Sorrenti.

V magazine

 

[Mr-Dale]

Black is finally in fashion at Vogue

By Ian Johnston and Photini Philippidou
Sunday, 27 April 2008

It's an open secret in the fashion industry: black models rarely get jobs on catwalks, in magazines and on billboards. According to executives, they do not inspire women to spend money.

Apart from Naomi Campbell in one Louis Vuitton advertisement this season, it would be difficult to find a single black model in a prominent position in a magazine. Carole White of the Premier Model Agency says she has received casting briefs requesting "no ethnics" and adds: "According to magazines, black models don't sell."

The leading British photographer Nick Knight says: "The fashion industry and the advertising industry are steeped in racism. You just have to look around at the number of black girls you see in ads – virtually nil. Among the main fashion brands, they are completely under-represented. It's shocking and atrocious."

Mr Knight blames business people at the top of the industry. A common attitude among them, he says, is that black models are "not aspirational" or "don't sell in Asia". He goes on: "I have tried to redress the balance. It is enormously important to use black models and models of different ethnic backgrounds."

Now a counterattack to the racism of the fashion industry is coming from an unlikely source: Vogue Italia. The July issue of the fearsomely cutting-edge quarterly will feature black models almost exclusively, shot by the photographer Steven Meisel.

Franca Sozzani, editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia, told The Independent on Sunday: "We are using a lot of black models, like Iman, not only the models of today – a lot of different girls." Asked why she had decided to do this, she said: "Because nobody is using black girls. I see so many beautiful girls and they were complaining that they are not used enough."

Ms Sozzani admitted the issue could yet prove to be unpopular among some in Italy, where the xenophobic Northern League is part of the new coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi: "Maybe in our country it is not the best idea. But I don't care. I think it is not my problem if they don't like it – it's their problem."

Sarah Doukas, managing director of model agency Storm, says: "There has been frustration over the years from a lot of ethnic models, stylists and editors who have felt that they were not working as much as some of their Caucasian counterparts."

But she added: "There has been a shift recently: supportive media coverage has had an impact on the fashion industry."

Nick Knight welcomes the prospect of Vogue Italia's all-black edition but adds a note of caution: "I hope all the advertising goes in that issue."

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...ue-816213.html

Another name! And apparantly, it is for the July issue...

PS: Franca, for what she says here!

 

[Miss Dalloway]

I'm more sure now that its Linda, I mean..."TI's back button, you ALREADY know, forefront of your buzz", who else?

Yes, yes yes my money is on Linda aswell.

 

[miu_miu]

Daria Strokous will be in V 53 in an editorial with IMG models?




V magazine

I think Hana Soukupova wrote about this in her Fashion Week Diary

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Another name! And apparantly, it is for the July issue...

PS: Franca, for what she says here!

Me too enjoyed her & Knights comments and this article alot, thanks a million for posting.

 

[tocceve]

I think Hana Soukupova wrote about this in her Fashion Week Diary

I don't know but I just quoted what the article said, no idea it could be a repost

 

[miu_miu]

^No, I just mean that I think this is what Hana will be in too, and she mentioned some other girls

 

[ThiagoMello]

Is Hana going to be on V53 as well?

Edit: You just answered Can't wait for this!

 

[sethii]

Will the cover of VI be jourdun dunn's first appearence in any vogue magazine?

I'm not an fan of Iman...I think they should use working models rather than those models who don't need the exposure.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

^^Iman is one of the women that opened the doors for "working models" you mention so its rather appropriate that she is in the issue since she earned her place to be there.

 

[candlebougie]

^No, I just mean that I think this is what Hana will be in too, and she mentioned some other girls

what girls did she mention??

 

[Mr-Dale]

^^Iman is one of the women that opened the doors for "working models" you mention so its rather appropriate that she is in the issue since she earned her place to be there.

Agreed...I am happy that both girls of today, yesterday and tomorrow will be featured. Especially in the previous decades, black models were of such great influence in the modeling world (Iman, and of course Naomi, many more), so they should be featured just to show the buyers how important black girls have been and should be now.