UK Vogue September 2024 : Kylie Jenner by Luis Alberto Rodriguez

"The billionaire victim" should be the tag line.
That pretty much amounts to most celebrity features in fashion magazines these days, now that I think about it. Always bellyaching about how wronged they are on social media... without a care in the world. See: Hailey Bieber.
 
KEEP CALM & CARRY ON
Photography:
Nigel Shafran
Styling: Alex Harrington
Hair: Soichi Inagaki
Make-up: Dick Page
Models: Angelina Kendall & Guy Remmers


UK Vogue Digital Edition
 
UK Vogue September 2024

LOOK AHEAD
Photography:
Sean Thomas
Styling: Max Ortega
Hair: Dre Demry-Sanders
Make-up: Francelle Daly
Models: Ugbad Abdi, Juliana Canfield, Abby Champion, Luke Champion, Alton Mason, Alston Mason & Sarah Pidgeon


UK Vogue Digital Edition
 
LONDON UPRISING
Photography:
Peter Joseph Smith
Styling: Eniola Dare
Hair: Yoko Setoyama
Make-up: Laura Dominique
Models: Jennifer Matias & Apolline Rocco-Fohrer


UK Vogue Digital Edition
 
"The Life Fantastic" by Julia Noni is my favorite fashion editorial in the issue.
 
Something about Nigel Shafran's pics have a Britishness I like. He has wit and the pics still have kind of an unexpected nuance to them that throws your eyes off a bit. Nothing to say about the rest.
 
This is all so incredibly dull. British Vogue is such a non-event.

The sad thing is a huge number of people will care about Kylie, but it isn’t the Vogue reader. It’ll be people who’ll pick up this issue in total isolation. The comments on the posts of the cover from her fans saying she’s the original influencer, she’s the one everyone copies… all very odd to me.
 
Even when it's done by the best-regarded photographers in their field, there's only so much of the style of photography I can take, where people are just standing there.

I might better appreciate the merit of any editorial in this style if it existed in contrast to other types of visual content - but when 90% of the photography in the magazine is pretty much in the same style, it all merges into one.

How much would it cost to create a narrative in a shoot, some sort of storyline, providing another layer of interest? I imagine the costs are mostly in effort and imagination.

There's a little bit of that going on in the Nigel Shafran story.
 
The ads don’t fare much better. There’s a handful of solid campaigns: Dolce of course, Marant, Chloe— and surprisingly COS and Ferragamo. Just tragic to the point of hilarious how the once bluechip labels churn out the most pathetic and cheapest imagery: Prada, MiuMiu, Chanel, Gucci, Burberry and the worst offender— that McQueen imposter.


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Vogue UK September 2024
 
^ OMG ahahah you're so right, the ads are 100 times better than the inside editorials or the cover for that matter lol. Isn't it a sign to shut it all up British Vogue and call a new team???!
 
So this has been out for a while, and it's Sunday, so I have time to sit down and read through the issue, instead of doing that "instant dismissal" style of reaction.

I still find there's hardly anything to really like in the main editorial section.

Kyle Jenner is a strange cover choice for UK Vogue - it's mentioned that she's the first from the family to be on the cover of this edition, but I could see the point of Kim or Kendall getting a cover, because they have closer (and seemingly more genuine) connections to the fashion world. Kylie has all the charm of a robot carrying out instructions.

While the interview is fairly lengthy, it adds little. I'm left with the impression of someone who has the shutters completely down, as a form of self-protection from having been shoved into public view from an early age.

If I was pushed to say which editorial I liked best (the least worst), I would have to say the Devyn Garcia one, because I find her a likeable presence in print. The worst, the Meisel/Vuitton one, it's an eyesore of shape and texture. And there's no room for the notion of personal style when the diktat for the shoot is "full look". It's like a vacuum of imagination.
 

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