UK Vogue April 2014 : Nigella Lawson by Nathaniel Goldberg

[AL92]

I think Nigella is a splendid cover choice!
source: dailymail.co.uk

 

[jeffandtheworld]

Beautiful. Simple. Too Tatler?

 

[Psylocke]

I admit I had to google her to find out who she is. And I think she looks better than here in every single picture I found of her on Google I don't now, something about this is so dull and awkward. And the fact that there is not a single eye-catching, interesting tagline on the cover either makes me think this must be one hell of a boring issue

 

[pixiedust1603]

I seriously love Vogue UK for putting her on the cover for reasons that I'm too tired to properly articulate right now.

She will never not be beautiful.

 

[ad31214]

Wow, simply bask in this culinary queen's eternal, ageless beauty. Nigella is 54 years old and looking better than ever

 

[MON]

I was so happy when I saw her name on the thread! I am really pleased with the cover. Very beauty. The color scheme is perfect too. Finally it's not Cole, Beckham, or any celebrity Vogue UK is obsessed with. <3

 

[Marc10]

I love Nigella but this is horrible. It's like her face was photoshopped on the body, awful pose on both pictures. She has such a Maria Calla esque beauty so i'm disappointed that they went with this Testino for US Vogue boring route.

 

[navyvelvetbowtie]

I absolutely love Nigella so I will overlook the fact that it's not very good, but you could put her in a plastic bad and I'd lover either way. I'm really glad she's on the cover!!

 

[YoninahAliza]

Aww.. it's lovely to see Nigella on the cover, she looks pretty and I like the way she was styled.

 

[Nepenthes]

I had to google her too but she looks beautiful. It's a pretty solid cover. I only wish they had done something similar with Daria for March. Would have been much more interesting.

 

[justaguy]

Huge fan of Nigella and I'm loving this cover!

 

[OliviaObsessed]

I love Nigella but neither of these pictures do her any justice. The poses, styling and lighting are all wrong. I know she doesn't photograph well, but she's a chef, not a model, so whoever the photog was needed to work harder with her.

Happy to see her on the cover of Vogue though :-)


oliviasobsession.com

 

[KoV]

shaking and crying right now

Just kidding. But I do love this cover choice. I love love love it. I watch her on the cooking channel every day during my lunch break and I own two of her cookbooks. After the very past year she's had, I love seeing her look beautiful and confident on the cover of Vogue. Love the message it sends and she looks beautiful. True, she always looks beautiful, but I don't remember seeing her photographed like this before.

 

[honeycombchild]

I love Nigella and I think it's great British Vogue gave her the cover, but I've certainly seen better images of her than this. I don't particularly dislike it but I'm sure there was potential for a better shoot there.

 

[Mat Cyruss]

i agree with all the complaints, Nigella is wonderful, i've seen her show only a few times on Pay TV & fell in love immediatly
but the pictures are & i blame Goldberg for this, he's a great Photographer but this is just wrong, maybe Norman Jean Roy or McLellan would have done better?

 

[Chanelcouture09]

It's great to see her on the cover, her presence feels like such a breath of fresh air, I love how a bit undone she looks, a little less make-up, her hair isn't perfectly placed - she's just a natural beauty.

I love the soft-elegance of it all.

 

[honeycombchild]

According to the Daily Mail article on it, the Vogue team have said she's wearing nothing more than some blusher and some mascara, and that -

Miss Lawson received a little retouching as we do with all cover images. Oddly given that she is a woman in her fifties, less than some people decades younger.

 

[vogue28]

HQ of the cover and preview of Nigella's shoot:

NIGELLA LAWSON is this month's Vogue cover star. Reclining in a jade green lace Burberry Prorsum dress, the chef wears only the most minimal make-up on the April cover, as the interview gives a real taste of the woman behind the headlines.

"I was terrified of being photographed without make-up," Lawson says in the piece, "and I hate having my looks talked up. It always makes me feel I'm going to be a disappointment in the flesh."

A long-time contributor to the magazine - Lawson began writing a cookery column for Vogue in 1995 - she has this year added judging other people's cookery to her already bulging CV, with a panel slot on food show The Taste. But the author and chef says she may soon expand into another field entirely.

"I love what I do, but there are other parts of my brain that I haven't flexed in a professional way," she said. "I do sometimes think that I've let the more analytical part of my brain slump slightly. I do like writing about food, but there's so much that interests me... I've been working - in a cottage-industry way - on an app, which, if it works, could be deeply thrilling."

Read the full interview and see the shoot in the April issue, on newsstands March 10.

vogue.co.uk

 

[mikel]

Wow, this is quite a boring and unimaginative cover. I know it's a long shot, but I hope that the import copies for the international market will have a model on the cover, like for November 2002 with Carolyn Murphy and a bunch of TV stars. But I guess that Nigella is too well known outside of the UK, so alas.

I do applaud Vogue UK for putting a curvy 54 year old woman on the cover and that they actually show her curves instead of going for a safe head shot. Too bad that it looks like her head is lifted form another photo. It's obviously photoshopped and not in a sleek Mert & Marcus kinda way but in a cheap H&M catalog kinda way. I also don't like the muted colours. It doesn't feel like a spring cover at all.

 

[catherine88]

Probably one of the most unexpected choices for cover this year!