Tell Anna Wintour How To Improve / Revamp US Vogue

[cosmo7999]

Just please please put more Supermodels on the cover, I love Bazaar more but Glenda needs to get this memo also.

 

[L0VE]

I think vogue really came back in 06 but has again become boring with the editorials. They use the same models, Trentini and Raquel. And then Natalia and Doutzen. I think Natalia is a good model but they just need to oomf it up or not keep reusing the same girls. I haven't been intrigued by the eds lately. May and before was good. May and after, boring?. I love vogue regardless, though.

 

[iluvjeisa]

just to the last thing that you said iluvjeisa - i think its just because people think 'vogue' and that title rings to mean the best of the best. Vogue is trying to cash in on the money that middle america will spend on 'higher end' drooling, things they cant afford but like to escape to once a month. lol they are basically being greedy trying to get allure et al's advertising. also, management at conde must love the sales its getting in return so i think anna would get the sack if she pulled the title back to being quite artistic and high end. truth be told most of middle america wouldnt read it... they would then turn to glamour and allure.

Yes, and why would conde nast care if their sales go from one of their products to another? Perhaps the staff of Vogue wouldn't be as high up in the financial hierarchy. Well, they're not supposed to care. Glamour and Allure are supposed to sell covers on celebs and pull in the money and the flagships are supposed to use part of that money for nice editorial stories. What we are seeing is probably the result of some business restructuring. Pity they killed a century old institution in the process

 

[sassyposh]

please, please put models on their covers instead of actresses. i am getting tired of it.

Put models on the cover

Wanna see Gemma Ward and Sasha Pivovarova, Vlada, etc on the cover of US Vogue

 

[psiabeyl]

Replace yourself with Carine Roitfeld.

 

[mikel]

Inez and Vinoodh dominance!

 

[chanelgurl]

Honestly, it's depressing to see TEEN VOGUE, a teenager's mag be SO SO MUCH better than Vogue. It's not even about having celebs on the cover, but the styling and clothing is so much more attractive.

 

[mikel]

^maybe you find the styling and clothing more attractive because of your age...

 

[More dancing]

Quit.

 

[notmanons]

TEEN Vogue is an awful tacky magazine with some of the worst stylists/styling and the most pretentious and stupid articles.

Vogue US is alright in my opinion, please just stop TEEN Vogue, it's getting worse and worse IMO.

 

[kezme44]

Quit.

haha...so true but won't happen

 

[erme]

Aesthetically, Vogue has become way too stuffy (and mostly with useless, repetitive information). I'd like to see them tone it down a little bit and focus in on quality articles and images instead of throwing in chunks/blocks of text and colored boxes.

 

[Les_Sucettes]

Quit.

That's so true.

American Vogue is at the moment a terrible mag, it can't be improved by her.

 

[nyc_art_style]

i don't understand why creativity and originality must suffer for the sake of business.

i know US vogue can sell well if it is more fashion focused. I know it can. US vogue just needs to take baby steps. first they need to change the style of their articles. some are extremely dull, irrelevant, or come off as flaky or fake.

also why not do a cover featuring a model and a celeb. imagine anne hathaway ( or whoever your fav celeb is) with daria w (or your fav model) on the cover together. people will buy it for the celeb and in the process will learn more about fashion.

 

[tigerrouge]

Tonight I was going through some 'old' US Vogues from around 2004, and while back then there were (a) editorials with Caroline Trentini, and (b) articles about Roger Federer, there definitely seemed to be more editorial variety. You saw Liya, Isabeli, Karen Elson, Lily Cole, Hana, Raquel, Daria - a good mix of different sorts of faces and energies, instead of the same diet of 'white bread' that we get today with Trentini ad infinitum.

I looked back at those Trentini images in the older magazines and didn't feel one negative thing about them, because they were one part of a whole. There also seemed to be more editorials with group shots, sometimes with around six-eight girls in one image. I don't buy US Vogue too often these days, but I can't remember many of those recently, I could be wrong.

 

[L0VE]

How about shipping it out quicker, =( no vogue yet. It's on the shelves before it gets to my house.

 

[meowmix]

retire

 

[chanels]

How about shipping it out quicker, =( no vogue yet. It's on the shelves before it gets to my house.

Totally agree.

And I could write a whole manifesto but:

- Stop using celebs and start using models on the cover again! Think Vogue Italia.
- No more Trentini. As much as I like her, c'mon, she had four appearances in April's issue!
- No more jumping eds.
- Focus more on FASHION and trends. Take note from Vogue UK and Paris.

And Anna, if you're going to do a 'shape' issue, at least evenly distribute focus on all shapes. Don't devote 80% of the issue for sizes less than 12. A Jill Scott spread is awesome but what's the use if you can't show women how to choose appropriate clothing that will showoff curves? Does anyone recall one insert with a "curvy" San Franciscan woman? It must have been a really good Photoshop job because that woman did not define "curvy" at all. I want to see real women with jobs that don't have to do with the industry, that don't make 100K+ each year, that have children to come home to instead of wild parties at the Met, and who isn't afraid to mix cheap chic with luxury. The women generally featured in Vogue are socialites. Yes, I would LOVE to be a socialite myself, but a majority of women readers are not socialites. They come to the magazine for fashion inspiration from the latest runway shows and indulge in the fantasy of editorials by fresh faced models, not for articles on how women should hightail to NYC to receive the latest Botox treatment.

Phew.

 

[L0VE]

^ Speaking of. I had deja vu, didn't they have the same type of idea for a shape thread LAST YEAR? Since when do they do the same topic twice? I love Vogue though but I didn't get the 2 x's in a row topic choice.

 

[chanels]

A 'Shape' issue last year? I don't recall since I've just started my subscription last May (it was cheap. And I figured I might as well order it for the 'Next Supermodels' cover ) but again, Vogue being repetitive. Not surprising