Elle - Worldwide

[delerith]

I'm glad that I'm not alone 'cause I was going to think that it's only me who has ever seen it

 

[nELL]

I loved that mag too! I still have every issue i bought.

 

[delerith]

What's your favourite issue? Mine is the one about Stephanie Seymour(1996)!!!! She is my model of all times!!!!

 

[fashionkitten7]

Yeah, I used to buy this mag too, I bought almost all the issues with an exception of just a few and I also keep them all and am determined to pass them to my grandchildren The last issue I bought was of August 1998. I so regret they've closed. I think this mag was either the thing that got me interested in fashion or, at least, it contributed A LOT into this interest. I really can't remember, it was so long ago.

By the way, it wasn't the only mag dedicated to models. There was another one, much more recently, called Tearsheet. It was US mag that had two editions : New York edition and Maimi. I've been unsuccessful at finding this mag anywhere for quite a while now so I guess they're gone also. Their former website www.tearsheet.com belongs to some other company now. I SO regret I didn't subscribe to that mag, which I really wanted to do, 'cause I'd have more than one issue now

It's so sad modeling magazines don't seem to live long

 

[delerith]

May be sometimes there will appear some man who will be as obsessed with fashion and models as we are and he or she will return model's magazines into life?????

 

[fashionkitten7]

^ Oh, I just really hope so

 

[EDISON27]

ELLE China & Korea November 2005

ELLE CHINA

ELLE KOREA


Seems like JLO had conquered Asian Fashion Mag industry,she is also on the cover of nov issue of korean ALLURE,here is the cover:

Go JLO

 

[fleur137]

Swedish Elle Dec 05:Keira Knightley

from fashist posted by Sara

 

[fleur137]

Swedish Elle December Review
[SIZE=-2]Posted on November 14, 2005 at 03:23:44 PM by Sara[/SIZE]

Cover: Keira: Nice classic cover look.

Garbo article: Four designers attach their favourite Garbo picture to a quote about why she is such an eternal icon. Beautiful feature that will probably captivate the youngsters with eyes in their heads. Karl Lagerfeld's classic Steichen choice is - as always - a knock-out.

André Benjamin article, Faith Evans article, Best friends article with cute pic of Diana and Liya.

Editorials:

Svart guld (black gold Andreas Sjödin shoots Mona, Carina Edwards and Elsa with grey background and black/dark dresses perfect for new years. The clothes are actually quite beautiful and the girls look like the "hot chicks" or the evil aliens in soon-to-be-cult-classic "Dude where's my car". Light pink lipstick which contrasts perfectly to black and deep purple silky gowns. It's a bit stiff at times, but the girls look so fresh and lovely and the light is perfect. I like this a great deal. I'm trying to identify who's Elsa and who's Carina but it's simply impossible - they are so similar I think they could be identical twins (seriously!). 8 pgs. 8.5/10.

Rysk ros (Russian Rose Carl Bengtson shoots Josefine Rhodin. Romantic poses, lots of patterns, big fur hats, orthodox christian symbols and sepia tinted turqoise light which adds to the feeling of 19th century photography. Ok, but I think it's rather bland. 10 pgs. 5/10.

Modernt retrospektion: Diana Dondoe graces this editorial by Nicolas Moore, whose work is usually seen in Allure (or that's where I've noticed him). I'm not sure if this is a reprint from another Elle edition, but Diana sure bulls out some classic 60s minimalist poses for the gorgeous outfits by Balenciaga et al which are displayed here. Having spent some time scanning old 60s mags, I can tell that they're really understood that you've got to somehow recapture the technique of the time in order to get the right 60s feel, thus it's pretty grainy. 8 pgs. 7/10.

Julänglar (Christmas Angels James Cochran is good at snapping some cute backstage pix, alright. Jaunel, Doutzen, Lisa Cant, MariaCarla, Bianca, Isabeli, Natasha Poly, Valentina, Natasha G, Luca, Shannan, Julia Stegnerx2, Hannelore, karen Elson and Gemma. Nice selection of pix with white dresses exclusively and several christmassy smiles. 8 pgs.

Maxat (Maxed out Iselin by Dusan Reljin. Again, I'm wondering if this gorgeous color/studio/70s lighting editorial is a reprint. Opens with a gloriously 70s retro dotted dress and Iselin with a kind of Farrah do and a sinister half smile that's like a parody of Farrah's old aligator smile. Iselin is a great poster - she pulls out all the classics with a rare adrogynous confidence. 10 pgs. 8/10.

Drömläge (Striking gold Leona by Kjell Peterson. Cute blonde model in an unremarkable ed. The hairdo is not very elegant and somehow I'm stunned to read that it's Nina Ricci/Miu Miu and not VS. 3/10.

H&M advertisement: 4 pages bright red Christmas ad with a red haired Jessica Stam. There's an opening close-up shot that's great but the other two shots are just nice.

OVERALL: A very good issue of Swedish Elle, much better than I've seen in a while with four strong editorials - (even if one is a backstage editorial and two of the others are possible reprints) and a nice Icon feature on Garbo. Love it!

(from fashist)

 

[Leviathan]

Editorials:

Svart guld (black gold): Andreas Sjödin shoots Mona, Carina Edwards and Elsa with grey background and black/dark dresses perfect for new years. The clothes are actually quite beautiful and the girls look like the "hot chicks" or the evil aliens in soon-to-be-cult-classic "Dude where's my car". Light pink lipstick which contrasts perfectly to black and deep purple silky gowns. It's a bit stiff at times, but the girls look so fresh and lovely and the light is perfect. I like this a great deal. I'm trying to identify who's Elsa and who's Carina but it's simply impossible - they are so similar I think they could be identical twins (seriously!). 8 pgs. 8.5/10.

Um, Carina Edwards is a model scout working for IMG.
Mona & Elsa are the only models in this ed. It's great, though, I like it a lot. Scans have been posted in Mona and Elsa's threads.

Rysk ros (Russian Rose Carl Bengtson shoots Josefine Rhodin. Romantic poses, lots of patterns, big fur hats, orthodox christian symbols and sepia tinted turqoise light which adds to the feeling of 19th century photography. Ok, but I think it's rather bland. 10 pgs. 5/10.

Loved the styling and setting. Typical Carl Bengtsson ed I'd say. It can be viewed in its entirety on http://www.carlbengtsson.com/ (choose New Work)

Modernt retrospektion: Diana Dondoe graces this editorial by Nicolas Moore, whose work is usually seen in Allure (or that's where I've noticed him). I'm not sure if this is a reprint from another Elle edition, but Diana sure bulls out some classic 60s minimalist poses for the gorgeous outfits by Balenciaga et al which are displayed here. Having spent some time scanning old 60s mags, I can tell that they're really understood that you've got to somehow recapture the technique of the time in order to get the right 60s feel, thus it's pretty grainy. 8 pgs. 7/10.

Definitely a reprint, so i won't bother commenting on it.

Maxat (Maxed out Iselin by Dusan Reljin. Again, I'm wondering if this gorgeous color/studio/70s lighting editorial is a reprint. Opens with a gloriously 70s retro dotted dress and Iselin with a kind of Farrah do and a sinister half smile that's like a parody of Farrah's old aligator smile. Iselin is a great poster - she pulls out all the classics with a rare adrogynous confidence. 10 pgs. 8/10.

Originally shot for Norwegian Elle. I actually didn't like this one that much. A couple of nice shots, but Iselin has pulled off some amazing eds, and this was boring in comparison. You can view a few pics here http://www.elle.no/elle/september/maxi/1.shtml

Drömläge (Striking gold Leona by Kjell Peterson. Cute blonde model in an unremarkable ed. The hairdo is not very elegant and somehow I'm stunned to read that it's Nina Ricci/Miu Miu and not VS. 3/10.

4-page editorial featuring Leona in silk & lace slips used as party dresses. Not exciting in any sense of the word. Leona is a 5'8'' MIKAs cutie.

I agree with 'Sara' that this is the best issue in a while. Swedish Elle is pretty sucky. But I still get it for the original editorials.

 

[Erin]

Like the cover. She looks good. And love the blue lettering.

 

[Cosette]

That's one of my favourite pictures of her!

 

[iluvjeisa]

Um, Carina Edwards is a model scout working for IMG.
Mona & Elsa are the only models in this ed. It's great, though, I like it a lot. Scans have been posted in Mona and Elsa's threads.


Loved the styling and setting. Typical Carl Bengtsson ed I'd say. It can be viewed in its entirety on http://www.carlbengtsson.com/ (choose New Work)


Definitely a reprint, so i won't bother commenting on it.



Originally shot for Norwegian Elle. I actually didn't like this one that much. A couple of nice shots, but Iselin has pulled off some amazing eds, and this was boring in comparison. You can view a few pics here http://www.elle.no/elle/september/maxi/1.shtml


4-page editorial featuring Leona in silk & lace slips used as party dresses. Not exciting in any sense of the word. Leona is a 5'8'' MIKAs cutie.

I agree with 'Sara' that this is the best issue in a while. Swedish Elle is pretty sucky. But I still get it for the original editorials.

I wrote the review. Thanks for sorting out the mystery of the identical twins This is the pic that had me very confused:

http://img273.imageshack.us/my.php?image=monaelleswe0079fl.jpg

I just really thought they were twins there - I guess it's the strong light and make-ups that make Mona and Elsa look soooo similar.

Also this way of writing is not entirely unambiguous: http://img273.imageshack.us/my.php?image=monaelleswe0079fl.jpg

Why is Carina mentioned there at all but no modeling scout mentioned by Elsa's name? To give her credit for managing to bring in the much-sought-after Mona?

Well, anyway, that doesn't even begin to compare to ElleLyx (new Swedish mag) where they referred to Linda E as Christy T. They need to have some more proofreading there, I think...

 

[saann]

I'm going to go buy it right now

 

[Leviathan]

I wrote the review. Thanks for sorting out the mystery of the identical twins This is the pic that had me very confused:

http://img273.imageshack.us/my.php?image=monaelleswe0079fl.jpg

I just really thought they were twins there - I guess it's the strong light and make-ups that make Mona and Elsa look soooo similar.

Also this way of writing is not entirely unambiguous: http://img273.imageshack.us/my.php?image=monaelleswe0079fl.jpg

Why is Carina mentioned there at all but no modeling scout mentioned by Elsa's name? To give her credit for managing to bring in the much-sought-after Mona?

Well, anyway, that doesn't even begin to compare to ElleLyx (new Swedish mag) where they referred to Linda E as Christy T. They need to have some more proofreading there, I think...

I can understand the confusion, it was written in such a weird way. And I have no idea why they put down Carina's name. I've never seen them list scouts/bookers before.

I decided not to buy Elle Lyx after reading some bad reviews, but I'd love to hear your opinion about it?!

 

[L.A.Gant]

They used the exact same cover for Elle Canada's December issue. However, I guess Elle Canada is not a widely circulated edition - so it tends to have recycled or share covers. Even so, it's a nice cover.

 

[iluvjeisa]

I can understand the confusion, it was written in such a weird way. And I have no idea why they put down Carina's name. I've never seen them list scouts/bookers before.

I decided not to buy Elle Lyx after reading some bad reviews, but I'd love to hear your opinion about it?!

Thanks for explaining - yeah, well at least they got my imagination going

The cover (Valentina) was very nice, even though I don't think the cropping is optimal. There were some rare ads in there (Missoni sport). I liked the images they'd chosen for their couture feature but it was terribly annoying that their full page image of Linda E - looking spectacular on the runway - would be accompanied by an incorrect legend. Ridiculous.

The editorials were reprints by mostly Gilles Bensimon (Adriana, Fernanda) and I think one original Mona editorial (Gehrke), which is nice but the legends are simply awful - the layout so unprofessional looking. Mona, though, looks beautiful. And "the twin" Elsa, who looks a lot like Patti Hansen, appears in a 4 page ed by Jimmy Backius. I like it, like I like everything by Backius (IMO he's the best Swedish fashion photographer today, with competition from Camilla Åkrans), and the legends are arranged in a better way here.

In short, there is one very good original (I'd guess) ed by Backius, but the mag is hampered by some incompetence and typographical problems; The glaring mistake with Linda, the horrific legends (looks like an 8th grader did it) and the bizarre decision to make the only truly good editorial take the back seat to editorials which have been published months ago elsewhere.

 

[LoveMyBoots]

They used the exact same cover for Elle Canada's December issue. However, I guess Elle Canada is not a widely circulated edition - so it tends to have recycled or share covers. Even so, it's a nice cover.

Canada has an Elle??? I had no idea. Kiera looks much better on this cover than she does on Vogue.

 

[Cosette]

^Elle Canada is a favourite of mine. I actually like it more than US Elle...

 

[PrettyBlueEyes]

I like the blue lettering but I don't like Keira. Too bad I can only get the dutch and american elle around here