My least favourite cover of British Harper's Bazaar in an extremely long time, especially after such a painful and non-event Beyoncé reprint. This feels like another non-event for the magazine, and I find Josh Shinner's photography extremely weak here. The newsstand cover is just... flat.
I believe had Justine Picardie still been at the helm, the direction of the shoot would've been our quintessential British Harper's Bazaar countryside fantasy, with the team playing on Phoebe's Bridgerton role.
Amazed to admit that Erik Madigan Heck's story is the highlight of the entire issue (the beauty styling is all sorts of gorgeous), and that third from last photograph of May Bell would've made a rather elegant November cover.