UK Vogue October 2019 : Kaia Gerber by Steven Meisel

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The Quiet Radical
Photographer: Jamie Hawkesworth
Stylist: Joe McKenna

 

[dodencebt]

So a CDG feature, Hailey Bieber, a Ghanaian version of Diane's Vogue Germany spread, a Bottega Veneta advertorial and a reprint? Got it.

 

[vogue28]

Edward Enninful attempting to make the Vogue Paris reprint sound like a genius idea and a meeting of the minds:

 

[tigerrouge]

If the "creative collaboration" had resulted in two separate sets of images which happened to use the same team and the same theme, fair enough - but if it's just reprinting the exact same pages in both magazines, why waste words glorifying what everyone knows is a common money-saving measure?

I imagine we'll be seeing more of this.

"We're giving the creatives from the Vogue Poland team the deserved chance to speak to a wider global audience through our pages"...

"Vogue Thailand has long been a source of inspiration for me as to how they artfully step between the worlds of the modern and the traditional"...

"I'm very pleased to team up with my long-term friends and colleagues from Vogue Mexico"...

 

[AD011620]

that made me chuckle... rebranding recession (financial and creative) :-D

 

[GivenchyHomme]

They did this before with W. Anyone remember the tragic Margo Robbie and Nicole Kidman covers.

 

[JPineapple]

"I'm very pleased to team up with my long-term friends and colleagues from Vogue Mexico"...

I won’t be mad if this happen because VM’s september isssue is awful af

 

[KoV]

I’m cackling.

 

[libra]

I hate this issue... wow
Hailey is terrible, I'm also not a fan of Juergen's work, the reprint is ridiculous and the other ed it totally irrelevant

 

[dior_couture1245]

God. Edward is really a terrible editor.

I’m not saying a magazine issue needs to have a theme (that usually ends up gimmicky), but does he have a point to make? Does he have something he is wanting to say? Convey? Is there a feeling he’s trying to project? Does he think #Diversity is point enough? That as long as the casting is diverse, the editorials can be the most mismatched, unrelated, pointless assortment of mediocrity?

At this point, I wonder if fashion magazines are a total relic. I don’t think there’s anything to be done for them at this time. They’re frightening zombies of former glories. Not worth putting everyone through the torture of watching them continue.

 

[Benn98]

Actually, Le Monde did the gritty Ghanaian fashion edit earlier this year..... for a random weekend. And it ended up way more interesting than this one on different levels.
Then you have a designer profile on Kering's new kid in town, a subject we've been seeing in countless editions all summer.
And to top it all off, a reprint. From French Vogue. Lol. With him trying to pass it off as a 'cross collaboration.' How embarrassing. The only other British glossies which reprints are Marie Claire and Elle. Are those your peers now? Was this an attempt to legitimise Emmanuelle Alt? Because we all know the only Vogue whose content are reprinted the most is the US edition.

Edward's legacy so far is that he got all inducements (Meisel, Meghan, Mirren) and opportunities, yet still manage to cheapen it all to Glamour level. That's what happens when a fashion editor is running a women's magazine.

 

[aracic]

I have a soft spot for Hawkesworth, even a bigger one for Meisel so I find Kaia's editorial quite exquisite and I'm in love with the colors and the mood of Jamie's story. However, Hailey kind of amazed me with the Diane street style editorial in Vogue Paris, but that was completely random and clearly not an improvement on her behalf. She still s*cks. The bangs didn't help at all. I couldn't even bother with Binx and Juergen cause I dislike them both and this combination was like a slap in the face. Overall, a let down from such a fantastic cover but it's still worth buying for the cover and cover story alone. Can't wait to add this cover to my collection.

 

[Srdjan]

That photo of Kaia in colour is so, so striking. Reminds me of the Evil Queen from Snow White. The rest are nah...

 

[Deleted member 45369]

Edward making excuses for a reprint only makes it more embarrassing. I would’ve buried it at the end of the issue and not said a word.

But honestly there was a time when reprints would be welcome before the internet made everything available but nowadays? Why waste double the paper?! And was the reprint really even that necessary? The issue already had four fashion stories.

Also aside from Edward’s excuse being utter BS, I really wouldn’t mind fashion editors being allowed to freelance between publications so long as the stories were new.

 

[GivenchyAddict]

Honestly, Arp/Wintour/Alt are the best ones so far at CN for various reasons imo.

UK Vogue and Italia Vogue are the worst in terms of content seriously. They are all about mascarade, big coup of low-level marketing strategy, sucker of fake SJW's value that I hate so much.

Hailey Bieber is on two different vogues for the same month and VP clearly crushed BV. Why? They have a precise vision and know how to execute perfectly.

This whole issue is...embarrassing as much as Shulman's tenure. At least, Shulman was very British for the best and the worst.

 

[MON]

HAHAHAHAHA

How is this a collaboration when Alt gave you the editorial lock stock and barrel having 0 creative control over the same

Further, it would have been more acceptable if Alt also had reprinted Edward’s editorial for October, but no.

You can have mine, but I won’t have yours. Cross collaboration? Sure.

Imagine reprinting someone else’s work without getting anything from the bargain.

 

[mikel]

Hate to say this, but Hailey Bieber reminds me so much of Kirsty Hume in her ed.

 

[zoom]

hailey baldwin? hard pass.

 

[vogue28]

Edward making excuses for a reprint only makes it more embarrassing. I would’ve buried it at the end of the issue and not said a word.

The story is the last to be featured in the issue and certainly feels like a page-filler, as opposed to an exclusive combining of the minds between Enninful and Alt.

Perhaps the story was a joint venture? Who knows? It might’ve been more believable if Enninful and Alt had both styled the story together. Props to them both, however, for turning a reprint into some marketing ploy for those idiotic enough to believe otherwise.