CR Fashion Book #8 : Made In America

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Gigi Hadid on cover one of four:

 

[Nymphaea]

Carine Roitfeld’s CR Fashion Book Depicts ‘Americana’ in Issue 8 With Four Covers

Carine Roitfeld’s CR Fashion Book will debut its eighth issue with its interpretation of Americana.

The issue features four separate covers of models who Roitfeld said embody the supermodel of today. They include Gigi Hadid shot by Sebastian Faena, Staz Lindes shot by Bjorn Iooss, Bentley Mescall shot by Felix Cooper and Kayla Scott shot by Rory Van Millingen.

“Each of them brings something very special to fashion: Gigi with her beauty and personality; Staz with her bohemian spirit and talent as an actress and musician; Kayla with her fierce, confident attitude, and Bentley with her innocence,” Roitfeld told WWD.

The CR founder and editor in chief noted that today’s model may have a different path to success than her predecessor but the foundation required to hit supermodel status is the same.

“Social media has changed the way girls become discovered and build on their success, but the DNA of the American supermodel hasn’t changed at all: she is still healthy, smart, hard-working, independent and always arrives with a smile,” Roitfeld offered.

But the landscape has indeed shifted since the height of the supermodel craze in the Eighties and Nineties when it was easy to recall them with the mere mention of their first names.

While there is a class of well-known models who have expanded their personal brands digitally today, these models are competing with other social media stars, reality TV personalities and celebrities for the covers of magazines.

The competition, while fierce, takes place amid a shift in the magazine industry, too. Magazine editors have begun rethinking the importance of the cover, as newsstand sales have deteriorated in recent years. Simply put, publishers are relying less upon the newsstand to generate big revenue.

But in some ways, the cover has never meant more and booking stars with a broad social media reach may amplify the magazine’s message. That may, in turn, diminish the demand for putting buzzy, emerging models on the cover — but not for CR.

Roitfeld explained: “Our readers love fashion and follow models as closely as we do. Of course Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, and Kim Kardashian have created huge buzz for us in the past, but I always like to balance the celebrity covers with model covers that speak to the dedicated lovers of fashion — such as myself.”

CR Fashion Book Issue 8 is part of a three-volume series that includes CR Men’s Book Issue 2 and CR Girls 2016. The three publications carry 500 pages in total, and they hit newsstands on Feb. 26.

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[kokobombon]

I like them all, very interesting covers... my favorite is Kayla´s, so strong and athletic

 

[anlabe32]

Awful magazine. The last one is the "best".

 

[DutchHomme]

I expected something better with MAJOR Amercian supermodels aka Cindy Crawford, Christie Brinkley & Christy Turlington

Gigi´s cover is most fun to me

 

[Lola701]

Kayla's cover is the best.

I still think that CRFB features some of the best work of Carine lately. The whole magazine may not be great but they are still some interesting editorials there.

I must applaud Carine because she is very clever. She has kept herself and her magazine relevant thanks to the models she has discovered in the past 6 years. When i think of all the models that have been successful in the past 6 years, most of them were discovered or pushed by Carine. She is linked to the right people (Tom Ford, Dior, Karl, Riccardo, Meisel...etc.).
It's amazing to see what Gigi has accomplished in 2 years.

Even her celebrity-covers were very clever. I believe the next one will be Rihanna or Zendaya.

 

[justaguy]

Kayla's cover is a real standout here. Maybe I don't know enough about this models, but I don't think "Made in America" when I look at any of these covers. A consumer shouldn't have to think too hard to make the connection.

 

[Phuel]

The only cover-worthy one is Gigi’s— she's just smouldering. Although it would have featured much stronger had it been in B&W with a dark seamless. But I guess they needed that patriotic bow to come through in color…

 

[Marc10]

Who still buys this magazine? It's like LOVE but depressingly irrelevant and even more obnoxious.

 

[Benn98]

None of these covers does it for me. Gigi's, which will probably sell better than the others, is an ok shot, but her chin is tilted too high. Nevertheless, Carine is still doing a better job than many, bearing in mind she's forced to work with a lesser-known team. I'm slowly beginning to warm to her reconstructed view of redundant themes.

If I'm forced to choose between VP Gigi and CR Gigi, I'd go for the latter.

 

[thatsfierce]

Nice to see Kayla, that's a great shot, but i'm tired of Carine and this. Bye.

 

[lewak]

As a serious Carine fan i want to be nice, but these are astonishingly average.

Maybe that's part of a clever "America" editorial concept.....

 

[happycanadian]

Love that shot of Gigi. I'm here for her.

And Staz Lindes --- wow. What a stunning face! I've never visited her thread here before, but going to go there right now.

 

[WeberFanatic]

Kayla looks amazing, best one out of the four. A real standout behind Staz. All four on their own though are nice either way. I'm interested to see who's own CR Mens Book 2 and the previews for CR Girls look decent considering they had used the Yeezy collection

 

[WeberFanatic]

Cover & Previews of CR Girls 2016 (Lily Donaldson & Joan Smalls by Sante D'Orazio)

Photography: Sante D'Orazio
Styling Carine Roitfeld
Models (From previews Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid, Julia Restoin Roitfeld, Irina Shayk, Nina Agdal, Amina Blue
Makeup: Fulvia Farolfi
Hair: Akki

Source: crfashionbook.com

 

[MON]

Gigi's cover plus the Girls ed feels very 80s/90s. Not sure about liking it. I'm going for VP > CR. The cover pose is too in your face. The head tilt. The makeup. Yikes. I dislike how the covers don't relate to each other. It's like a Love Magazine / V Magazine tragedy.

But the third cover is amazing. I must say.

 

[Creative]

I only can tolerate the cover with the profile picture.

I won't never understand why a talented person suddenly 'looses' his/her talent. It happens a lot with people working in the fashion industry. It's like one year they have it and the next it is long gone.

This magazine is quite absurd and ridiculous. Carine had a great eye to choose the perfect cover image, yet since she left VP she is just incapable of making her covers work.

OH MY, and now I see that preview. So terrible and absurd. I feel sorry for Carine.

 

[TeeVanity]

Kayla's cover is my favorite.

 

[MulletProof]

I don't care for this magazine but I'm actually happy to see Staz landing this thanks to her Saint Laurent work. This girl has been around f-o-r-e-v-e-r... longer than most people here have even been into fashion!, and working steadily, not trying on and off hoping for rapid success.. it's nice when suddenly this kind of girls (Staz, Austria) get a chance after so many years.

 

[Phuel]

Gigi's cover plus the Girls ed feels very 80s/90s. Not sure about liking it. I'm going for VP > CR. The cover pose is too in your face. The head tilt. The makeup. Yikes. I dislike how the covers don't relate to each other. It's like a Love Magazine / V Magazine tragedy.

But the third cover is amazing. I must say.

It’s D’Orazio so it must be like 1987 all over again. Gigi’s pose is straight out of Brook Shield’s Calvin Klein Jeans campaign. And Joan is really just simple a gorgeous woman by any standards. This all would actually resemble a direction if they had just put Gigi and Joan on the cover— or covers if they can’t make up their minds and need to appeal to as many segments of the fashion demographic as possible. Those two would have brought back late-80s smoulder with a vengeance. Even Gigi’s shot looks like some newly-found image from a Scavullo shoot.

Carine needs to find her balls again and stick with one strong direction.