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UK Elle Oct 05 [review - and the rest]
[size=-2]Posted on September 1, 2005 at 09:09:12 AM by Cathy
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Notable Articles:
<LI>1 pg look at Frida Giannini’s new leather accessory range for Gucci.
<LI>1 pg ‘my model life’ with little Ruslana K, with is only 5’8” and used to have knee-length hair before she had it trimmed to her waist. Her ambition? ‘To discover the world’.
<LI>1 pg look at designer Margaret Howel’s 25 years in business.
<LI>4 pg article about Dolce e Gabbana’s 20 year anniversary, which opens with a double-page spread of lots of little images of… double page spreads from UK Elle editorials featuring their clothes, then a few tiny catwalk shots, and celebs wearing their stuff.
<LI>4 pg ‘closet confidential’ with Jimmy Choo chief, Tamara Mellon, and then NY boutique owner, Sarah Easley.
<LI>5 pg interview with Britney Spears, shot by Gilles Bensimon, where she looks like a heavily pregnant, happy housewife – it’s that haircut!
<LI>4 pg search for ‘the perfect winter coat’.
<LI>4 pg interview ‘When Beck met Giovanni’ and that’s Giovanni Ribisi, whose twin sister, marina, married Beck.
<LI>6 pg interview with Jessica Simpson, with images by Gilles Bensimon, so they must be recycled from her recent US Elle cover interview.
<LI>1 pg interview with singer Miss Dynamite.
<LI>2 pg interview with Maggie Gyllenhaal.
<LI>6 pg feature where Kelly Brook shows us ‘her LA’.
Editorials:
Deanna Miller’s back in THE FOLK STORY, which is a 12 pg take on this season’s liking for patterned knitwear and ponchos. Studio shot and simple, although Deanna looks a bit moody.
THE DROPOUTS is a typical UK Elle boho editorial, where male & female models wear carelessly mismatched clothing against a countryside background. This time, we get 10 pgs of Lizzy Jagger and Louis Archer.
Nadine S is in a WAIST LAND – though I seem to remember she has a magnificent bosom, but it isn’t on show in this demure knitwear editorial. 14 pgs of bleached blonde Nadine looking like a lady.
An 8 pg interview with Keira Knightley, with more images by Norman Jean Roy (4 full page shots).
Valentine Cordier enjoys an English autumn in TAKE COVER, a 10 pg editorial with high street fashion for the season ahead.
Beauty:
<LI>The Beauty section opens with a 1pg backstage shot of Cameron smirking.
<LI>5 pg feature on how to get good hair, illustrated by a few head shots of Kirsty Hume and some small backstage images.
Overall:
This is a happy, packed issue with more in it than I have time to list. I enjoyed this issue – though I was disappointed at the fairly non-existent beauty section, normally well-produced in UK Elle. Aside from that, there’s a good mix of lifestyle, celebrity and UK high street fashion in this issue. Not an essential purchase, but quite a solid issue.
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