Looking through my digital copy just now, the issue is very inconsistent and there is no correlation between any two stories. I guess that's what they're going for with the global thingy, let the main edition gather a bunch of nonsensical stories as a foundation for all the other editions. It isn't working.
Priyanka, although a beautiful woman, looks dreadful in the terrible styling by Law Roach. The selected garments look cheap and unflattering, her hair is a mess and it's all utterly uninspired. Pavarotti's editorial is the saving grace of this issue, in my opinion. It looks like a modern progression of the type of editorial American Vogue used to be famous for, especially with the crew popping up in several shots. Anok looks magnificent! It's a shame that this type of fashion delivery isn't present throughout the rest of the magazine. Then we come back to the parade of low budget ugliness in the form of a Ralph Lauren article that looks like it's taken off of someone's Instagram feed. Words can't describe how much I hate it. Even the appearance of Grace Elizabeth and Irina Shayk is diminished by complete lack of taste and skill that went into producing this rejected Vogue Arabia filler looking piece of trash. Porodina's story is lovely enough, but I resent it for the fact that I've already seen it elsewhere and I'm already sick of it. The celebrity portfolio is quite ugly, as usual, though certain portraits are passable. Sadie Sink kinda served c*nt, so props to her. And to top it all off, the ugly mess that was Theo Liu's story we saw on the US thread.
I'm beginning to have very low tolerance for these putrid and obvious lacks of effort on all fronts. It's one thing to cut on budget, and another to produce work that is plain unsightly. Stop making fashion ugly, please. And stop letting everyone with a camera get published, there really should be a standard - and if there was one and we took out all the photos that didn't meet it, this issue would be quite empty.
