UK Harper’s Bazaar November 2024 : Lupita Nyong’o by Alexi Lubomirski

My digital copy is showing 206 pages. Inside front cover ad is Vuitton with Rianne.

The cover story is a different style of shoot for UK Bazaar, while still fitting in with this month's overall theme of art.

Other editorials include The Shape of Water, shot by Agata Pospieszynska, styled by Charlie Harrington, with model Katya Gray outdoors, and Ghost Story, shot by Emma Summerton, Styled by Leith Clark, with model Hannah Motler, shot inside an abandoned-looking house.

There are a few shots of Georgina Grenville in the beauty section, and the Travel section goes to Cuba and Cornwall.
 
The Shape Of Water

Model : Katya Gray
Styling : Charlie Harrington
Photography: Agata Pospieszynska



HB UK Digital
 


PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST (Textless, HQ)
Photography: Alexi Lubomirski
Styling: Miranda Almond
Hair: Nai'vasha Johnson
Make-up: Nick Barose
Model/Celebrity: Lupita Nyong'o


UK Harper's Bazaar Digital Edition
 
Its some great photography, her skin si glowing but theres something missing from the expressions. It needed more energy and joy for the glow and set but I guess this is the 'Chanel' Lupita.
 
Of course Lupita is beautiful etc etc (that goes without saying but the need to preface her beauty before launching into any criticism is hilariously overly sensitive LMFAO). Just that Alexi is always reliable for turning potentially solid concepts, and with someone like her, into Lifetime/Hallmark Channel movie stills… Lupita looks like Anita Baker with her early-90s short braids and her mother-of-the-bride styling. And let’s not even get into the horrific cover select with the unflattering lighting that has her resembling one half Dr Jekyll and the other half Mr Hyde. Hilariously horrific lighting and no one on that Bazaar team noticed-- likely too entranced fawning over her…

Never could get into this Bazaar that drifts from these Lifetime/Hallmark aesthetics to these all-too saccharine, all-too 13yo girl’s dreams of gentle-waifs-and-druids-marinating-in-flora-and-fauna cosplay. Shame, cuz Agata and Emma are genuine talents elsewhere— preferably in Italian Bazaar.
 
Never could get into this Bazaar that drifts from these Lifetime/Hallmark aesthetics to these all-too saccharine, all-too 13yo girl’s dreams of gentle-waifs-and-druids-marinating-in-flora-and-fauna cosplay.
I was going to say it's very Lula circa 2007... but then I saw Leith Clark credited with styling the other editorial, so it all makes sense.
 
Marvelous cover, she looks so regal.
the shot with her on the red dress is simply gorgeous too.
Always here for Ms. Lupita!
 
I appreciate UK Bazaar for being the only British magazime that remotely resembles the world around me. It's almost the opposite of fantasy. I've never set foot on a London street, but I do have miles of countryside around me.

Down the road, there's an old stone in a ditch under a hedge in the shape of a chair, which, over time, became associated with the place where "ancient Ulster Kings were crowned", although that actual location is across the road on a farmer's land, where there are more stones. There's a rath in someone's garden. There are raths everywhere. Elsewhere, there are dolmens in people's driveways and in housing estates, hanging around from the megalithic (3000-4000 BC). Druids are modern in comparison to that.

If you fast-forward a few centuries, you have your churches in the middle of lakes reached by causeways (now ruined and full of bats which will immediately start crawling out of every crevice the moment the sun dips down behind the trees).

For some, the life of a city can be the fantasy that's sold to them, the improbably clean streets, the always sunny avenues...
 
I find this extremely BORING. It's a perfectly beautiful cover, nothing offensive about it but it's just so tepid and flat. This pales massively in comparison to the Lupita Nyong'o British Harper's Bazaar cover from 2015, also by Lubomirski. Red would produce something of this nature, UK Bazaar is capable of so much more...
 

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