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L'Uomo Vogue December 2008 : Javier Bardem by Bruce Weber
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this is a miraculous gift from God, perhaps even Sexy Jesus
I cannot wait for the full ed
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From WWD:
FRANCA’S CODA
For many, the financial crisis has provoked a reaction more commonly found in turtles: pull your head inside your shell and hide. But not Franca Sozzani. Last July, she ignored all naysayers to produce the so-called “Black Issue” of Vogue Italia, the fashion tome Sozzani has steered for the past 20 years. She followed that up by creating an Africa theme for the November issue of L’Uomo Vogue, including donating 50 percent of the issue’s advertising revenue to Africa-related charities. Now she’s given free rein to photographer Bruce Weber, who filled the bulk of L’Uomo Vogue’s December issue with a 100-plus page portfolio depicting his vision of life in Miami. Sozzani celebrated the results last Friday with a dinner cohosted by Moncler’s Remo Ruffino at Miami’s Casa Tua that drew the likes of Marc Jacobs, Naomi Campbell, Andre Balazs, Jay Jopling and Cornelia Guest. “With the crisis today, people need to dream. And it’s only in dreaming you can forget the reality,” Sozzani said by way of explanation as she sat in the backyard of Weber’s Golden Beach home two days before the party. “Otherwise, why do a magazine? You already have the newspaper.”
Which is why she wanted to devote so much space to Weber’s work, all with nary a fashion credit in sight. “L’Uomo Vogue is not exactly what you call a fashion magazine anymore,” she pointed out. “Basically, I am more free than anyone else because I don’t think that you sell clothes through a [fashion] credit. I think that you go through an image, that you sell a dream, and [then] the clothes.” For example, of the cover shot, she said, “I think that Javier Bardem in a pink bathrobe is more a fashion statement than to have something with a big logo on his shoulder.”
She is similarly uninterested in featuring celebrities for the sake of newsstand sales. “It’s not about [selling]. Absolutely not,” said Sozzani, who pointed out that she doesn’t feature them on the cover of Vogue Italia. “We do for L’Uomo Vogue, but not just because they represent celebrity. You should show people that are doing something interesting,” pointing to her choice of French philosopher Bernard Henri-Lévy for the Africa issue. “It symbolizes a concept.”
Weber echoed her sentiment in his portfolio, which was drawn from photographs he’s done over the past three years of the Miami scene, featuring civilians as well as professional models and celebrities like Penélope Cruz, Sienna Miller and Edward Norton. “The whole idea is not to just show pictures of personalities, but also show pictures of the heart of Miami,” said the photographer, who has maintained a home in Miami for a decade and first met Sozzani when she was hitchhiking across America in the early Eighties. (The front of book expands on the theme by featuring articles on Art Basel Miami Beach, the art fair that took place last week.)
“Usually people come here and see only one side of Miami,” said the editor, who wanted to change that. Similarly, she wants to shift the prevailing attitude towards the failing economy through her magazines. “We should not think about the economy in terms of something negative or something that will destroy creativity. We have to give ideas…suggestions and fantasies,” she said, adding, “As we say in Italian, ‘You make the law to destroy the law.’ I really don’t know about circulation. I can even tell you I don’t care. When I was doing the Black Issue, everybody told me, ‘You will not sell one copy.’ Well, we reprinted the magazine. Maybe nobody had tried before, so they didn’t know they were wrong.” — Elisa Lipsky-Karasz
FRANCA’S CODA
For many, the financial crisis has provoked a reaction more commonly found in turtles: pull your head inside your shell and hide. But not Franca Sozzani. Last July, she ignored all naysayers to produce the so-called “Black Issue” of Vogue Italia, the fashion tome Sozzani has steered for the past 20 years. She followed that up by creating an Africa theme for the November issue of L’Uomo Vogue, including donating 50 percent of the issue’s advertising revenue to Africa-related charities. Now she’s given free rein to photographer Bruce Weber, who filled the bulk of L’Uomo Vogue’s December issue with a 100-plus page portfolio depicting his vision of life in Miami. Sozzani celebrated the results last Friday with a dinner cohosted by Moncler’s Remo Ruffino at Miami’s Casa Tua that drew the likes of Marc Jacobs, Naomi Campbell, Andre Balazs, Jay Jopling and Cornelia Guest. “With the crisis today, people need to dream. And it’s only in dreaming you can forget the reality,” Sozzani said by way of explanation as she sat in the backyard of Weber’s Golden Beach home two days before the party. “Otherwise, why do a magazine? You already have the newspaper.”
Which is why she wanted to devote so much space to Weber’s work, all with nary a fashion credit in sight. “L’Uomo Vogue is not exactly what you call a fashion magazine anymore,” she pointed out. “Basically, I am more free than anyone else because I don’t think that you sell clothes through a [fashion] credit. I think that you go through an image, that you sell a dream, and [then] the clothes.” For example, of the cover shot, she said, “I think that Javier Bardem in a pink bathrobe is more a fashion statement than to have something with a big logo on his shoulder.”
She is similarly uninterested in featuring celebrities for the sake of newsstand sales. “It’s not about [selling]. Absolutely not,” said Sozzani, who pointed out that she doesn’t feature them on the cover of Vogue Italia. “We do for L’Uomo Vogue, but not just because they represent celebrity. You should show people that are doing something interesting,” pointing to her choice of French philosopher Bernard Henri-Lévy for the Africa issue. “It symbolizes a concept.”
Weber echoed her sentiment in his portfolio, which was drawn from photographs he’s done over the past three years of the Miami scene, featuring civilians as well as professional models and celebrities like Penélope Cruz, Sienna Miller and Edward Norton. “The whole idea is not to just show pictures of personalities, but also show pictures of the heart of Miami,” said the photographer, who has maintained a home in Miami for a decade and first met Sozzani when she was hitchhiking across America in the early Eighties. (The front of book expands on the theme by featuring articles on Art Basel Miami Beach, the art fair that took place last week.)
“Usually people come here and see only one side of Miami,” said the editor, who wanted to change that. Similarly, she wants to shift the prevailing attitude towards the failing economy through her magazines. “We should not think about the economy in terms of something negative or something that will destroy creativity. We have to give ideas…suggestions and fantasies,” she said, adding, “As we say in Italian, ‘You make the law to destroy the law.’ I really don’t know about circulation. I can even tell you I don’t care. When I was doing the Black Issue, everybody told me, ‘You will not sell one copy.’ Well, we reprinted the magazine. Maybe nobody had tried before, so they didn’t know they were wrong.” — Elisa Lipsky-Karasz
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Girl, I am not going to be able to sleep tonight.
Kevinnn. DON'T.
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I will cradle you in my arms like a baby, as you drift off to sleep with thoughts of Javier dancing in your head
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If you threw a party and invited everyone you knew, you would see the biggest gift would come from me and the card attached would say thank you for being a friend.
I am really hoping for shirtless Javier in this issue. I'm not even going to pretend like I have a higher aim in all this.
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i'm almost ready..
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this is brilliant...
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I think that is one of the Uomo Vogue I'm gonna buy in ages .....
Finally some colours !!!!!!
Finally some colours !!!!!!
The bright colours don't seem so obnoxious as normal considering it's a december issue, it's actually refreshing 
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scanned by me
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^ ::faints::
There are so many things I want to say right now but tFS is a PG-13 site and my thoughts right now are NC-17...
Thank you blackangel41999, even though these pictures will eventually lead to my untimely (yet extremely pleasurable) death.
There are so many things I want to say right now but tFS is a PG-13 site and my thoughts right now are NC-17...
Thank you blackangel41999, even though these pictures will eventually lead to my untimely (yet extremely pleasurable) death.
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wth does this mean ?
