Julia looks great and fresh, full of positive energy. The photography is terrible, bad lighting, bad direction, bad post-production. The raw flashlight style only works in hyperglamorous setting, it's always been like that.
The styling is too safe. I am so tired of the person being the person as they are. I miss too much the transformative power of clothing and make up. Back with Testino and 00s Meisel all actresses and actors got transformed way beyond their lukewarm usual visuals and nobody ever complained about that, and all of they still were famous back then.
I feel, even with this and YSL, that I am living in a huge fashion Walmart. Even with Madame Ross , Julia, Gisele resurgence, Linda, Daria, and etc. it is not what it was, and in a bad way - we have not advanced further. Same old barely any effort into styling and change, zero concept or story, product.
I was reading often as a guest. I know we all eventually conform as a group deprived of any good fashion since the beginning of 2010s, but the amount of "yassss, b*tch, work!!!" for basic shots of Linda or Daria were astonishing.
Fashion is like my first crush, my first ex after a long-term love affair: I hate what it is, but I still keep looking, hoping for the better times. It hurts every time as it is only worse and I keep remembering the good days. I miss digesting and contemplating in fashion.