UK Vogue April 2023 : Jill, Precious & Paloma by Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

[WAVES]

I got a copy today from the store and was pretty excited to go through the issue and let me tell that the review we got yesterday was the most deceiving thing I have read in years.

it’s such an underwhelming issue. the cast overall is tremendous but the results are so mediocre I can’t even.
the main editorial is actually the best thing apart from a few good shots throughout the issue.

how did Edward manage to produce this is beyond me.

 

[prylvi]

Iv'e been waiting for a mona and anok editorial together, and this is what I've got. ugh

 

[tigerrouge]

I don't think this issue is as bad some of the others churned out over the past six months, considering what's in US Vogue and all the Euro editions.

By this point, I think what's changed is that people's general perception of Vogue has reached an all-time low, from having to see this level of content produced and repeated over and over again. People have completely lost patience with low-effort work, and no longer have any optimism we'll see better... at some undefined point in the future.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

I actually like Anna's ed, it has some freshness to it.

 

[caioherrero]

I don't understand why they keep two fashion directors and one style director without them doing an editorial for months. Only because they are friends of the editor?

 

[SLFC]

Having gone through the issue, the cover was kind of deceiving. The styling was on point, the individual covers definitely should have been the only ones cause they would sold it more for me, and I am generally not a fan of Jill and Paloma, but they did great here. And even if I'm not much of a fan of them, for once there is a headline I would agree with, these three are everywhere, they have a big presence in major brands, on the runway, as well as covers. I could not see a reason why they wouldn't fit in the definition of a "new super". Overall this is best issue they have had in a very long time.

 

[ah ah]

He's lost his senses completely.
And he still promotes Irina.

Well, Irina's pictures (she looks good in some of them actually) could easily fill the missing pages of Grazia magazine! Such a disappointing contribution by Cass Bird.

If I were to be completely honest, despite my initial acceptance of the cover, it has become quite apparent to me that Edward's direction is single-handedly steering this magazine towards irrelevancy. Even the stellar cast of McLellan's story is unable to rescue this issue.

 

[tigerrouge]

UK Vogue became irrelevant to me after the Timothée Chalamet cover.

By all means, put solo men on the cover if you think the future lies being a magazine that covers general fashion and entertainment with content for everyone. Various titles manage to do that.

But if you claim that you're a magazine that cares passionately about bringing women's issues to the forefront of the conversation, but you decide to put a man on the cover simply for the sake of boosting your own profile and being able to boast about a cheap first...

You know that point in a relationship where something happens, and it's not necessarily a big thing, but it's THE thing that turns you off someone or something? That cover was it for me.

 

[vogue28]

The solo covers must've been printed as a very VERY limited run, as seen here via the Instagram of British Vogue's Global Director of Talent: