UK Vogue April 2025 : Bella Ramsey by Paolo Roversi

[alwaysademo]

best Roversi ed in recent times. I find the cover completely captivating, like I stopped scrolling and just stared at it. Something is right here. Bella has an aura.

 

[ivano]

Is it really random though? The second season of her very popular and successful HBO show is about to premiere.

Hi Mikel. From my point of view, not the others, feels random to THIS Vogue. I can't relate The Last Of Us with the target audience of British Vogue, though their cover stars over the first year post Edward gave me that feeling to me. I find it too American for them, even if it's a hit everywhere. I can't connect them with a fashion magazine from other place outside US. But you're right that anyone can be Vogue now. If Gwyneth Paltrow appeared with Iron Man on the cover years ago, even Marvel and Vogue wasn't expect to connect one day, and in this current time, you can find the most unexpected cover subject on the front of Vogue. And most of the magazines now were made to appeal fandoms, not historic readers. So there's a group happy with any cover subject of the Vogues. Good for them thought, an it's nice to see a person with autism talking about it from that place. I can relate with them from that but the series, I'm not into. Also I'm happy for Roversi doing the cover.

 

[tigerrouge]

Yes, this cover story could be interesting, but I find myself wondering, is it very Vogue?

When the rest of your issue is full of women of achievement as political ambassadors or as the head of companies/institutions, plus interiors as owned by the 1% and clothes that cost thousands of pounds presented as standard essentials, this cover story feels like a quirk.

On the other hand, I often want fashion magazines to take a person and present them in a different way - and they have.

 

[oaklee91]

They would look good in Victorian settings, their face is doll-like

 

[Morgenstern]

Stunning! Beautiful cover and beautiful editorial pictures. Well done.

 

[FashionFanatico]

I love this very much.

 

[Zorka]

BELLA RAMSEY
Photography: Paolo Roversi
Styling: Ib Kamara
Hair: Eugene Souleiman
Make-up: Ammy Drammeh
Model/Celebrity: Bella Ramsey


vogue.co.uk

 

[Zorka]

Seeing the ad as a whole, all I can say is I like it. A LOT.

On the other hand, would I have liked it as much if I hadn't watched (just recently) the first season of "The Last of Us" - probably not.

 

[kokobombon]

They also played a beloved character in Game of Thrones... so lots of people in the fandom like them from before. And if that doesn't translate to sells at least it translates to social media chatter imo, which is pretty much all that matters lately isnt it?

 

[TomBlanksFullFatMiuMiu]

These pictures are really really awful, maybe this is more Tim Walker's skillset?

 

[blueorchid]

These pictures are really really awful, maybe this is more Tim Walker's skillset?

No, these are kind of typical of what Roversi delivers when he’s phoning it in.

 

[penny609]

They also played a beloved character in Game of Thrones... so lots of people in the fandom like them from before. And if that doesn't translate to sells at least it translates to social media chatter imo, which is pretty much all that matters lately isnt it?

Which was their character in GOT? Can't remember like right now. Good grief, it's been quite a long, long while since last time I saw these Thrones thing.

 

[Zorka]

Which was their character in GOT? Can't remember like right now. Good grief, it's been quite a long, long while since last time I saw these Thrones thing.

According to IMDB, they appeared in 3 episodes of season 6 (Ep. 7, 9, 19), 2 episodes of season 7 (Ep. 1, 2) and 4 episodes of season 8 (Ep. 1, 2, 3, 4).

To our beloved kokobombon, unfortunately I haven't seen Bella in GOT because I had stomach for first five seasons only.

 

[penny609]

According to IMDB, they appeared in 3 episodes of season 6 (Ep. 7, 9, 19), 2 episodes of season 7 (Ep. 1, 2) and 4 episodes of season 8 (Ep. 1, 2, 3, 4).

To our beloved kokobombon, unfortunately I haven't seen Bella in GOT because I had stomach for first five seasons only.

I don't think I managed to see the whole thing as well. Too many seasons (still, I did it with the Walking Dead, kind of a record since usually I tend to prefer 1-season Polish or Belgian series...).

 

[mepps]

I think it's a beautiful cover and editorial.
They definitely have an interesting look, that suits Roversi well.

 

[kokobombon]

They played lady Lyanna Mormont and they were bada*s

 

[penny609]

They played lady Lyanna Mormont and they were bada*s

Maybe then I watched a little more seasons that I thought I did. Because now I actually remember them.

 

[unknown179]

All the Conde Nast owned Vogue’s closed their sister publications around 2015-2022 (I think Italian Vogue shared its titles with Italian Vanity Fair for a while?).

Except Vogue France Collections and Chinese Vogue has its Beauty paper, Film and Plus editions.

Vogue Spain still have 'niños' I think and something else

 

[Kimy Jo]

Vogue Spain still have 'niños' I think and something else

i think Vogue China + and Film closed, i remember some last issues of Vogue China comming with a VOGUE + section

 

[0729866]

The edit is quite nice. Wish there was a better cover select.

My main gripe with British Vogue under Chioma is that she doesn’t really have a great sense for what makes a compelling image. The teams assembled are quite talented, however, the final effect feels underwhelming. You could also extend this critique to many other magazines rn.

Also, the relationships between the covers each month feels disjointed. I’m not saying they should all be studio portraits with the same crop…but like some visual consistency in either tone or image making styles would help a lot.