The New York Times Style Magazine Fall 2019 : Anok Yai by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot

[TZ001]

 

[Riseup]

I guess she’ll never learn.

 

[tiffany]

Anok's stunning, but what an odd cover

 

[RMDV]

YAWN! Why is Anok getting these covers... there are SO many better models.

 

[Perickles]

I love those pictures. All those guys look so good. Great cover also! Nice layout.

 

[MON]

Why on earth would you put the masthead at the bottom? For the life of me, I do not get it. Don’t they have a marketing team? This reminds me of the idiocy that is L’uomo Vogue

Put this in the stacks and one would think the magazine is called the new androgyny. Dumb.

Tired of the concept too. Also how is this the “new” androgyny. I don’t see anything different

 

[dodencebt]

Why on earth would you put the masthead at the bottom? For the life of me, I do not get it. Don’t they have a marketing team? This reminds me of the idiocy that is L’uomo Vogue

I don't think it matters to them though. As far as I know T comes only as a supplement in the New York Times, makes its money from advertising and they don't care about newsstand appeal so they feel the liberty to experiment. That said, it looks super odd that the title is in the bottom left corner.

 

[Benn98]

I guess she’ll never learn.

Never, I tell you. At this point, she's a lost cause. She's getting twice the amount of print support than Adut, and somehow managed to bag an EL deal but still comes up short. She can't just rely on those Bambi eyes. We need more!

I ca look past the messy art direction, but the model's presence or lack thereof is bothersome. Just as well this issue will be tucked in a newspaper because alone on its own it doesn't prompt an impulse purchase.

 

[Phuel]

^^^ If none of the photographers care to push her, how can she learn??? These overhyped lessers like Tyler and Collier will never push models because they either don’t care or don’t possess the vision, and shoot them as they are: Vacant and bland is not authentic and raw. And the older, established photographers are just trying to get with these banal times, and don’t want to deal with any possible accusations of harassment/bullying/manipulation that immediately get them cancelled on one model's word alone.

10 years ago, this shot would have earned the scorn of even Tyra as a wasted frame. In 2019-- it’s a covershot LOOOL

 

[Benn98]

10 years ago, this shot would have earned the scorn of even Tyra as a wasted frame. In 2019-- it’s a covershot LOOOL

Hilariously witty! Now that I think of it the best I've seen of her was from Meisel, Klein and whoever's shooting EL.

 

[GivenchyAddict]

She looks angry. Honestly, once i read Rizzo involved my expectations go down very low. So no disappointment for me.

 

[Vitamine W]

^ I think she's trying to emote something. Anything.

 

[bluebanter]

you can tell shes trying and failing to emote.

 

[Perickles]

nytimes.com

 

[Fiercification]

Very boring cover and editorial. I guess even when he's not working with Willy, Oli Rizzo has lost it, like pretty much every upper-echelon stylist in these times. I'm just happy to see Naomi Chin Wing get her chance to work with M&M and diversify her portfolio.

 

[woemwoem]

I almost feel like the industry is cycling through black models and Anok is getting all this attention now b/c they're getting tired of Adut after they got tired of Adwoa. It's like the industry will give one black model all its attention for a few months, then decide that's enough and it's time to move on to the next one. Otherwise, I don't get all the work Anok is getting. She's a stunning girl but every single picture of her looks exactly the same.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

She always gives the same look thankfully shes stunning and can get away with it for now.

 

[Perickles]

 

[Fiercification]

It's like the industry will give one black model all its attention for a few months, then decide that's enough and it's time to move on to the next one. Otherwise, I don't get all the work Anok is getting.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but how many times have we seen a white girl book non-stop top tier gigs despite being an awful model? You surely can't apply the logic that it's due to her being Caucasian, more that she's "the girl of the moment". Can Anok not fit into that group now, just because she's black?

If anything this makes it clear that over the past decade plus we have seen black models, like Asian and plus-size girls, have to work twice as hard as their Caucasian counterparts to merely get noticed (as is the case I imagine in many industries) and what happens when you work harder/put in more effort? You're better at what you do, damn straight.

How many black models have we seen break into the upper echelons of the industry who've been "bad" at what they do? I can't recall one...so if anything a less talented individual like Anok (and maybe Yasmin before her, both of whom I find stunning BTW) gaining major traction may finally represent a normalising of standards across the boundaries of race in modelling.

 

[mepps]

Ya'll need to take several seats, and stop "emoting" over a supplement cover, from a Sunday newspaper. It's really not that deep, and Anok is STUNNING. I have a digital subscription to the New York Times, but I'll pick this up, when I go for my Sunday coffee at the corner bodega.