UK Harper’s Bazaar March 2023 : Luna Bijl by Betina du Toit

[ChicSaks]

Harper's BAZAAR UK Digital Edition

 

[Deleted member 1957]

Nice to see a model on the fashion issue but with one of the best print models at the moment I expected them to have some fun with the shoot. Hope she has a major editorial.

 

[penny609]

Nice to see a model on the fashion issue but with one of the best print models at the moment I expected them to have some fun with the shoot. Hope she has a major editorial.

I share your feeling, they have Luna and we get a simple portrait (may it be beautiful) with a grey background. Still keep high hopes for the editorial, she usually delivers whatever the theme is.

 

[mikel]

I love it. Simple but effective. You don’t need anything more when you have a good model.

 

[Benn98]

It actually looks a bit festive. Nice, but very inoffensive and too understated for an issue that signals a new season. And the hairstyle is not doing her face shape any favours.

There will likely be a long editorial featuring Luna.

 

[penny609]

There will likely be a long editorial featuring Luna.

Some images from the editorial (perhaps even the whole story) are posted on Luna's thread. Sorry, don't have time enough to repost them here but in case you want to see... It's in the same mood as the cover even if on some pages her expression and energy are stronger.

 

[oaklee91]

Such a sultry and vulnerable stare. Beautiful.

 

[MagFan]

Nice to see her but it is same safe and boring as Vogue. Why they don't want to use Enninful's weaknes and do something loud creative and eye catching? and BRITISH

 

[vogue28]

I’m afraid to start sounding like an absolute grouch of tFS lately, but what on Earth is this… for March! Far more suited to a month like November. Are British Bazaar now afraid of colour? Two covers in a row which has been completely devoid of a sense of life and energy.

On the flip side... I adore Luna Bijl, and will always approve of models scoring the covers of British fashion magazines. The cover as a whole is rather classic, timeless, easy on the eye and certainly reads like a fashion magazine cover should.

 

[WAVES]

it’s amazing to have a model on the cover of Harpers Bazaar however feels a little too generic and tamed. and quite of a fandom choice too since she hasn’t scored a campaign in a while… I’m sure the editorial will be good.

 

[Zorka]

MODERN CLASIC
Photography: Betina du Toit
Styling: Tania Rat-Patron
Hair: Yumiko Hikage
Make-Up: Tiziana Raimondo
Model: Luna Bijl



UK Harper's Bazaar Digital Edition

 

[Zorka]

SNOW QUEENS
Photography: Josh Shinner
Styling: Cathy Kasterine
Hair: Yoshitaka Miyazaki
Make-Up: Natsumi Narita
Models: Hannah Thatcher, Iman Lili, Jessica Luostarinen & Merle Ingram



UK Harper's Bazaar Digital Edition

 

[Zorka]

A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
Photography: Agata Pospieszynska
Styling: Charlie Harrington
Hair: Philippe Tholimet
Make-Up: Faye Bluff
Model: Erin O'Connor



UK Harper's Bazaar Digital Edition

 

[Zorka]

FORMS OF ATTACHMENT
Photography: Trisha Ward
Styling: Holly Gorst
Hair: Emily Wood
Make-Up: Emily Wood
Model: Diana Li



UK Harper's Bazaar Digital Edition

 

[caioherrero]

Doesn’t look like a spring issue

 

[liberty33r1b]

what a beautiful cover, love it

 

[Xone]

Bit depressing but nice to see Luna and Erin...

 

[tigerrouge]

Flicking through this ahead of seeing my print copy... 246 pgs. Lots of new season ads (I see Chanel is back on The Staircase). Only one cover shot seems to have been created, no subscribers one.

Some of the art direction in the main editorial section really leans heavily into 90s US Bazaar, in terms of font choice and positioning, even more so than recent months, when things have been heading that way.

You know, Vogue has big name recognition, but there's something about this issue of Bazaar that blows it out of the water in terms of how things have been selected, researched and presented to be relevant to the people who read UK Bazaar. There isn't the sense that the magazine is a vehicle for the editor's ego, with the audience coming second, or that it's a performative vision of people.

 

[SLFC]

Its basic, but its Luna and that is all that matters.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

Luna saved the ed but it would have been better. Love Erins though