Harper’s Bazaar France October 2025 by David Sims, Willy Vanderperre & Drew Vickers

[vogue28]

Cover #1 with Ella Dalton by David Sims:



Cover #2 with Abbey Lee by Willy Vanderperre:



Cover #3 with Libby Taverner by Drew Vickers:

 

[MModa]

I am absolutely in love with Ella Dalton's cover ❤️ I hope the fashion editorial by Sims/Alt is not a disappointment but something very good.

 

[blusheels]

Abbey Lee styled by Panos <3

 

[mteb123]

Abbey Lee styled by Panos <3

Looking forward to this… Hopefully Panos is making a full comeback!!

 

[Lola701]

Elodie David styling the best cover considering the two others wasn’t on my watch.
The last cover is fantastic. The first two are a non-event.

 

[Bertrando3]

Gosh just shut this magazine down. They never produce anything good.
Since the start i've yet to say and scream ''amazing cover, yes, good''.
It's just so uninspired and the covers NEVER get it for me.
Then again the Italian and American editions are just as bad.

 

[likeahurricane]

I really don’t think these Bazaar editions are THAT bad, jeeze 😬

 

[Avonlea]

French Bazaar is a huge disappointment. It's not really bad, but not great either. At the beginning they were at least trying and now you get the impression that they just keep churning out issues. Nothing is memorable or really special. Italian edition is much better.

 

[Bertrando3]

I really don’t think these Bazaar editions are THAT bad, jeeze 😬

I simply can't defend the undefendable, other international Bazaar editions around the world produce WAY BETTER contents and covers and fashion stories than these european editions that ''used to'' be good and used to represent the best of the best in magazines, just like Vogue. The chinese edition alone of Bazaar eats up these 3 editions altogether, it's night and day. I mean: could you truthfully truthfully watch the entire lineup of covers of Harper's Bazaar France since the very start and say ''at least 80% of the cover stories are blowing me way, the cover alone made me want to buy the magazine'' and so on??? You simply can't. I'm trying to think of at least 3 covers that I found good and I can't even come up with 3. Same with the italian edition which thinks it's Vogue Italia but it's the poor cousin version lol. And don't get me started with the American edition lead by Samira. It's all beige, it's all boring, nothing stands out, nothing WOWs me or makes me feel that an entire team worked night and days on a story with a top photographer. It's just a bunch of nothingness.

 

[likeahurricane]

Specifically, which editions of Bazaar produce better content?

Maybe Spain, I’ll give you that, but the rest seem to be at about Vogue DE or L’Officiel [insert any random licensed country here]. I’ll disagree about China. Isn’t it like easy mode to run a magazine when you actually get ad revenue, etc?

I guess it all comes down to taste. High glam fashion that you seem to like (if you don’t mind me paraphrasing what I see lol) is just not my cup of tea. I don’t think that the opposite of bland is high glam, so I don’t think these editions doing what Bazaar China does well would actually be good.

 

[MModa]

Personally, I do not think the magazine has been a huge disappointment. For me personally, the magazine has had both good and not so good moments. A few moments that I do not want to see again. The recent issues have been enjoyable and collectable for me. I am happy.

 

[vogue22]

Gosh just shut this magazine down. They never produce anything good.
Since the start i've yet to say and scream ''amazing cover, yes, good''.
It's just so uninspired and the covers NEVER get it for me.
Then again the Italian and American editions are just as bad.

Girl.

 

[Toni Ahlgren]

Abbey could do much better than posing as child lifting her skirt like "Mommy, I just peed myself."

 

[Avonlea]

It all comes down to expectations. When they announced the comeback of French Bazaar, I was very excited, as the state of French fashion publications is not the best. I expected a lot and got something that's more often than not just mediocre. So for me it's a huge disappointment.

 

[likeahurricane]

@Avonlea True. Which is why I find Vogue France to be a bigger piece of sh*t at the moment than Bazaar France. I think this edition has gotta step up and out of its comfort zone, but I’ve never expected it to be amazing.

 

[MModa]

@BalkaniStaCouture Please post the fashion editorials when the digital edition is out. Thank you!

 

[Bertrando3]

ye

Girl.
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Yes thank you for making my point even more obvious: ''the first cover'' and I specifically said to member ''likeahurricane'' that I couldn't find more than 3 covers that were memorable so there is that. I'm also a man.

 

[Bertrando3]

Specifically, which editions of Bazaar produce better content?

Maybe Spain, I’ll give you that, but the rest seem to be at about Vogue DE or L’Officiel [insert any random licensed country here]. I’ll disagree about China. Isn’t it like easy mode to run a magazine when you actually get ad revenue, etc?

I guess it all comes down to taste. High glam fashion that you seem to like (if you don’t mind me paraphrasing what I see lol) is just not my cup of tea. I don’t think that the opposite of bland is high glam, so I don’t think these editions doing what Bazaar China does well would actually be good.

No yeah you're right, I do love high glam fashion, you're spot on. That's why I believe that, aesthetically speaking, the Chinese edition, to me at least, speaks volumes about what the fashion direction should go to. Lots of gorgeous hair and makeup, over the top outfits and dramatic lighting, angular cool poses, modelesque Fashion models with a capital F à la Gisele Bündchen and so on. It's true, it all comes to personal taste. To me though yeah the opposite of that version of high glam fashion is blandness and what Harper's Bazaar France brings is 1000% bland but we can agree to disagree for sure, that's why I love constructive passionate debates about what we love, the magazines we enjoy, the models we prefer and so on. Liu Wen in Harper's Bazaar China is super strong, super glam and is stronger personally than anything that Harper's Bazaar France has presented so far here.

 

[BalkaniStaCouture]

Harper's Bazaar France October 2025 Cover

Photographer: David Sims
Styling: Emmanuelle Alt
Hair: Paul Hanlon
Makeup: Yadim
Manicurist: Michelle Class
Set Design: Poppy Bartlett
Models: Mathilda Gvarliani & Ella Dalton
(digital edition)

 

[BalkaniStaCouture]

Harper's Bazaar France October 2025 Cover

Photographer: Willy Van der Perre
Styling: Panos Yiapanis
Hair: Ali Pirzadeh
Makeup: Miranda Joyce
Manicurist: Trish Lomax
Model: Abbey Lee Kerahaw
(digital edition)