UK Vogue February 2025 : Renée Zellweger by Nikolai von Bismarck

[MDNA]

Make sure leave some budget for video retouch next time, if you're gonna use that much photoshop, it just looks weird.

 

[tigerrouge]

There's a profile of Seán McGirr inside this issue, which describes his "gentle Irish lilt" and his "classic Irish colouring" and his "elfin features" - next you'll be telling me he greets his team of leprechauns with a hearty "top o' the morning to you!"

Is it only the Irish that we can talk about in that way? These days, we wouldn't even say "classic British colouring" because we realise it's not a monoculture.

UK Vogue spends every issue trying to communicate that point about Britain and how important it is to recognise and respect these delicate issues - apart from the pages where there's someone from The Emerald Isle, and then it's time to indulge in stereotype.

Imagine reading a magazine profile where they talk about someone with their "classic Chinese colouring" or someone else who has "classic Nigerian colouring".

You can talk about someone's appearance, manner and influences without resorting to phrases that reduce them to a stereotype, and this magazine should know that better than most.

 

[Zorka]

EXTRA, EXTRA!
Photography: Felix Cooper
Styling: Tabitha Simmons
Hair: Virginie Moreira
Make-up: Thom Walker
Model: Bibi Breslin


UK Vogue Digital Edition

 

[Mr Yayo]

Any other editorials please?

 

[jeremydante]

As usual, they picked the wrong cover shot. Editorial shows that there were clearly other options.

 

[MissMont]

Honestly the covers are so boring now. American Vogue especially, at least the last few British covers have been taken outside a studio but wtf is this now. A concrete wall that has no correlation to what she’s wearing or a theme etc. Where is the creativity now, an actual story behind a cover.

 

[Kimy Jo]

The thread is just 3 pages, Vogue Uk its really dying

 

[kokobombon]

^tFS is just dying 😅
We used to have lots and lots of pages years ago, no matter who was on the cover...

 

[tigerrouge]

Interesting conversation on the internet in general is dying.

In terms of tfs, because there's so much about magazines to be negative about, I found myself constantly complaining, which is a waste of time, because the only thing I can change is how I direct my time and attention.

I did consider cutting out magazines entirely from my life, but I decided, where a magazine is directly relevant to me because I already subscribe to it - or would definitely consider buying it - then I might still comment on it.

But otherwise, who really cares about my opinion of something like US GQ, because I'm neither the target audience of the content, nor someone who'd be enticed into buying it.

People always get to have an opinion, but sometimes, having a negative opinion for the sake of it, what was I achieving with it? How valuable is that feedback, if I was never going to buy a copy of that particular magazine in the first place, or purchase something seen on its pages?

 

[Mr Yayo]

We should have an opinion poll
‘is this issue worth buying?’
for the major Vogue editions.

I used to buy Vogue (UK) every month without batting an eyelid but these days I find myself having to make the conscious decision whether to buy a copy or not having looked at the content on tfs first 😅