Harper's Bazaar China July 2015: Blake Lively by Trunk Xu

[Nevin139]

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[Benn98]

Wow, this looks good. Much better than American magazines (especially her last MC cover). Love what she's wearing. Furthermore, I'm glad she booked Bazaar, that means Vogue China is definitely out of the question at this stage.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

How disappointing, must be one of their worst cover images! She can look, and photograph so much better than this! Not to mention that bad hair, make-up, and open mouth expression in combination with the cheap looking background! Its almost like a press junket photo!

 

[MON]

Oh my goodness, even The Hollywood Reporter can photograph better than this. That hair looks like a low quality dried up wig. That nose contour is in all sorts of wrong. I dislike the green masthead but I wouldn't blame them for trying to add color to a rather dead cover shot. Even her stare gives me nothing. Also her pose cuts her body in a way that it seems there are 2 people used for the cover: the upper half is Blake's and the lower half is some body double photoshopped out of the photo.

 

[gazebo]

She looks crippled. Her legs look disproportionally short and tiny.

 

[Bertrando3]

That pose is awful and does not work at all, the photography is bad. Yes she looks beautiful with her face and hair but the styling, that cropping, the pose make it look super amateur or an outtake at best. The layout of that cover looks also quite weak.

 

[GIVENCHYlover]

That green looks horrible

 

[vogue28]

This could've been wonderful with a little more attention paid to the colours of the fonts and the composition of the overall cover. The green doesn't work (as I don't think it ever does on magazine covers) and I think black would've made this particular cover more striking and would've certainly complemented the outfit more. I still very much admire the cover image, though.