Glass Magazine S/S 2017 : The Goddess Issue

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Julia Stegner by Walter Chin

Toni Garrn by Riccardo Vimercati

Noomi Rapace by Hew Hood

Elsa Hosk by ?

Daria Strokous by ?

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[KateTheGreatest]

Julia's and Toni's are the best for me. Although Toni's really photoshopped.

 

[lakomka]

Seriously, Julia hasn't aged a day since her glorious 2003 year Love her cover most

 

[RedSmokeRise]

Loving Julia and Noomi's covers.

 

[badgalcrush]

Julia's cover is the best IMO and I'm so happy to see Daria here

 

[Benn98]

What a mixed-bag casting! Looks like the girls were just randomly selected. I think Noomi and Daria have the strongest covers. Noomi's sensuality and strong bone structure reminds me of Greta Garbo and Louise Brooks.

The rest of the covers are nice, but it's very commercial for an indie. It wouldn't look out of place on Vogue or Bazaar. Toni looks rather nondescript on her cover, never understand how she reached these levels.

 

[Nomar]

Pretty covers but they don't do anything for me.

 

[liaa]

My favorite is the 1st cover. Really nice.

 

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

Goddess issue featuring all blonde models...

 

[Bruce7Lee]

^was about to say that. Outdated aesthetics.

 

[Benn98]

I thought we've reached a post-racial state in fashion, where things like this should no longer matters. So you have two Germans, two Swedes, and a Russian touted as godesses. Problematic, maybe. But how different is this to ID using an all-black cast on their cover to supposedly capture the spirit of contemporary London?

 

[|PerfectTonight|]

So boring and bland. Snooze fiesta!

 

[iclawhands]

Bunch of white girls. Okay.

 

[Bahiyya]

I thought we've reached a post-racial state in fashion, where things like this should no longer matters.

???

How?? We don't even believe the magazines when they claim to be feminist .

But how different is this to ID using an all-black cast on their cover to supposedly capture the spirit of contemporary London?

In light of UK History (and London in particular)? Completely different. Is this the same place where UK Vogue had to get a black EIC for persons to opine that one of THE super models could maybe finally get some more Vogue covers? #postracial

Noomi!! Only one I'd consider getting .

 

[Sweet rus]

hands down, Julia's cover is the best, she does look like a goddess in it <3, not digging the rest of the covers though

 

[mariemaud]

what about this cast ? so random and dated

 

[lightblue]

Toni looks like Lindsey Ellingson.

 

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

I thought we've reached a post-racial state in fashion, where things like this should no longer matters. So you have two Germans, two Swedes, and a Russian touted as godesses. Problematic, maybe. But how different is this to ID using an all-black cast on their cover to supposedly capture the spirit of contemporary London?

point me to the exact time when we reached this, and i'd gladly admit i was wrong .

 

[Benn98]

???
How?? We don't even believe the magazines when they claim to be feminist .

In light of UK History (and London in particular)? Completely different. Is this the same place where UK Vogue had to get a black EIC for persons to opine that one of THE super models could maybe finally get some more Vogue covers? #postracial

Noomi!! Only one I'd consider getting .

Firstly guys, I was actually being facetious with the post-racial comment. But since you're banging on about it, it actually made me think. For the US Elle, Allure, Glamour or Vogue reader, it would indeed appear that fashion is currently experiencing a state of post-racialism. That's what they're projecting.

It's just a bit frustrating how all the shortcomings are always highlighted when there's an all-white cast. Of course, rightly so. Yet nobody applauds US Vogue for their diverse casting issue after issue (I can count the amount of people on here on one hand who does - forget about the March cover), nor dared to mention the casting on that ID cover. It's just a tad hypocritical imo.

You may well think it should be different due to xyz, but I'm sure not a lot of people who pass a newsstand will think of UK history or anything dense when they look at the ID cover. Least of all not the ID reader.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to excuse the fact that there are only Nordic-looking blondes on these Glass covers, but I'm more pressed at the fact that people seem to be very selective who they call out. An all-black cover isn't diversity, much like an all-white one isn't. No need to cloak it with allowances, let's call a spade a spade.

Alexandra Shulman was a lousy and lazy editor for ignoring racial diversity. Lousy! But I'm not inclined to put the entire blame on her. Anna changed her ways because the American media bashed Vogue left, right and centre for Vogue's exclusionism. Anyone remember reading on mainstream blogs in the 2003-2010 period? It was one article after another highlighting Vogue's shortcomings. Jezebel, Slate, you name it, even sites that had nothing to do with fashion. Readers continuously expressed concern about the issue in the magazine. And it ended up making a difference. So the British media and the very readers of British Vogue who kept schtum as they published one mediocre blonde after another is as complicit as Alexandra, imo.

 

[anlabe32]

I love Julia, she's gorgeous but her cover looks like the cover of a random catalog. Toni is just so bad.

Daria's cover is shot by Bojana Tatarska. I see she wanted to give it a Vanderperre feeling and that's why I like that one the most. Plus Daria is just gorgeous and a great model.