UK Elle January 2018 : Romee Strijd by Laurie Bartley

[Srdjan]

(zinio.com)

In Louis Vuitton, styled by Anne Christensen.

 

[MON]

Elle UK is really killing it. Love it (except the awfulf Refresh layout)

 

[Bobby153]

Wow I wasn’t expecting this at all. Very pretty.

That refresh is truly terrible. What is it with British publications and wanting to butcher their covers with awful layouts?

 

[Srdjan]

It's definitely a reFReshing January cover. A bit messy with the texts clashing an already vivid cover image, but I love Romee and her face, so I might be getting this!

 

[serendipity8777]

What Romee Did Next
Ph: Laurie Bartley
Stylist: Anne Christensen
Hair: Panos Papandrianos
Makeup: Ayami Nishimura
Manicure: Roseann Singleton
Model: Romee Strijd, Akiva, Alejandro Harris, Baba Diop, Danny Singh, Jay King, Jayro Castro


Marie Claire 1/18 Digital Edition

 

[tigerrouge]

When a magazine can't do the Vogue Italia thing of putting one easy-peasy word on the front of the magazine, they're stuck having to reconcile how to get their coverlines to stand out against a busy image, while balancing the amount of empty space left on the cover. Making a commercially appealing cover IS an art in itself (a lost art, it seems, in many cases). But I can see why the 'refresh' has taken the shape it has.

Another month where I'm still interested in what UK Elle are doing.

 

[333101]

They're on a roll

 

[Benn98]

I was never her biggest fan, so the messy art direction makes this cover even less appealing to me. I do like the styling and her editorial despite how unBritish it looks. Without looking at the credits I'd have thought it was styled by Samira from American Elle.

 

[vogue28]

Must confess that this is the first cover since September that I'm wasn't immediately compelled to rush out and buy. It's an OK cover shot of Romee but a little too busy for my taste. The layout does nothing for me I'm just a little underwhelmed by all this.

However, I did have a leaf through the issue (because thankfully the issue is not shrink-wrapped this month) while out food shopping the other day and I did come across a nice fashion story with Cindy Bruna by Gilles Bensimon.

 

[Royal-Galliano]

what a bore. omg!