Thanks for the review! I've seen some pics from the original eds and especially Backius' Mona ed was really nice, but I didn't want to buy the mag just to get those two if the rest wasn't that exciting. So I think I'm kind of glad I didn't get it.iluvjeisa said: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.
Backius and Åkrans are definitely two of my favorite SWE photographers as well.




thanks a lot