No print subscription yet, my digital copy is showing 294 pages, but the actual print page count seems to be closer to 270. Dior is the inside front cover advert.
At the front of the issue, there's a little interview with actress Bella Maclean, a jewellery edit which includes the models Sahteene Sednaoui, Solange Smith and Suzi de Givenchy. Robin Muir looks back at Stephen Jones's millinery, and Alexa Chung talks about her Barbour collection by standing in an allotment. The Jilly Cooper feature - as used as a coverline - is just one of many two-page pieces at the front, it's nothing exceptional.
There's SHOP THE SEASON, shot by Joan Braun, which has Alva Claire, plus the usual beauty and home sections.
The main fashion section opens with the Florence Pugh cover story, then it's TURN OF THE DECADES, as we have already seen in US Vogue, then SPIRITED AWAY, a reprinted profile of Chemena Kamali which includes the Angie Kendall editorial.
A CERTAIN AGE is about designers embracing muses of all ages, then there's an interview with Stuart Vevers, as shot by Norman Jean Roy (looks like it should be a reprint from US Vogue), then an interview with NENEH CHERRY ahead of the release of her memoir, and also an interview with the leader of the UK Green Party, Carla Denyer, rounding off with the Francoise Hardy-inspired JOIE DE VIVRE with Vittoria. Back page is "What Would Agyness Deyn Do?"
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Leaving aside the idea of reprints, my first impression is that this issue is FULL of content. It might not sound like there are many fashion editorials, but they are interspersed with other features, and the issue just keeps on going.
The type of content in this issue is much closer to what interests me, but these days, I don't know how much say any 'editor' of a Vogue edition has about what goes into their magazine. If they wanted to take the magazine in a certain direction, do they have any leeway in which to do that? If the reprinted content was awful to begin with, how much of that belongs to them?
Finally, Neneh Cherry. In a way, modern UK Vogue wants to be the embodiment of this woman, but never gets close. The least they could do is feature her more often.
