US Elle May 2008 : Madonna by Tom Munro

[clo]

^^Hahaha to funny i have the opposite effect, i like her and was never one of those people who constantly complain over her work, but honestly it is getting out of hand, she is EVERYWHERE!

Anyway like i said not to hate on Caroline but there are other models, and variety is in order.

I never hated her, really, I was just kind of annoyed of seeing her in virtually every single issue of US Vogue and now I'm not anymore, I even like seeing her!

 

[hufnagel]

I got the issue today -

Model Citizens
Photographed by Daniel Gabbay
Shalom Harlow, Diana Dondoe, Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann, Denisa Dvorakova, Bette Franke, Kasia Struss, Toni Garrn, Coco Rocha, Guinevere Van Seenus, Irina Lazareanu and Freja Beha kissing on the lips, Alyona Osmanova, Sasha Pivovarova, Maryna Linchuk, Jessica Stam, Catherine McNeil, Liya Kebede, Caroline Trentini, Julia Stegner, Natasha Poly

They are only featured once except for Shalom, who is in the picture with Ellettra. Denisa, Bette, Kasia, and Toni are all in a small photo together. It's just a white background shoot.

 

[hufnagel]

Then there is just an accessories-spread, I never care about those. The last editorial is Shalom's, photographed by Matthew Brookes and styled by Nicolas Klam. She is on a rocky beach, photographed in either faded colours or black and white. It's very nice and a huge step up from what Elle used to be. I'm very pleasantly surprised with how Elle is changing with their styling and photography.

 

[mikel]

sounds very very exciting!

 

[clo]

sounds very very exciting!

I second that! And I want to see "Model Citizens"!

 

[SnejanaIsMyMuse]

Model citizens sounds interesting.Is Elettra a full on model?, I don't really know that much about her except that she is the daughter of Isabella.

 

[MissMagAddict]

SWEPT AWAY
Model: Shalom Harlow
Stylist: Nicolas Klaun
Photographed by Matthew Brookes




image source | elle

 

[min-SH]

^oh Shalom! boring ed, but nice to see Shalom.

and Madonna, man she is HOT!

 

[mkd1187]

Is Madonnas striped shirt Ann D.?

 

[MissMagAddict]

MODEL CITIZENS
Photographed by Daniel Gabbay

What happens when more than 25 top ready-to-wear designers create one-of-a-kind organic looks? In this ELLE Exclusive, sustainable fashion (finally) gets the green light "I love my dress!” exclaimed model Julia Stegner, swinging the draped layers of her tea-stained sasawashi-and-peace-silk Donna Karan gown while singing the lyrics of her new favorite song, Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back.”
“I think mine’s organic wool!” bragged Coco Rocha. Backstage at fall’s groundbreaking FutureFashion show in New York’s Gotham Hall, where 29 major designers created one-of-a-kind eco looks, models were doing the unthinkable—actually asking about the clothes they were being hoisted into. “Is yours heavy? Is it paper?” asked Alyona, taking her (chemical-free) manicured hands out of the pockets of her organic silk Bottega Veneta pullover to touch her friend Suvi’s Marni undyed cotton shift.
Thanks to Barneys fashion director, Julie Gilhart, who corralled a seemingly impossible group of star designers, organic fashion went from granola chic to haute couture in one night. On a wooden runway made from naturally felled Sri Lankan kumbuk trees (later to be refurbished as tables by furniture maker Tucker Robbins), a crowd of fashion’s biggest names ogled sophisticated looks by the likes of Yves Saint Laurent (bio*grain suit), Stella McCartney (organic-cotton voile summer dress), and Calvin Klein (hemp floor-length trench). The fashion industry, long fearful of being considered hypocritical by the green community for favoring artistry over sustainability, hasn’t exactly raced to embrace green design. After all, who could imagine Fendi without the furs or Hermès without the leather luxury goods? But with fashion as the second largest industrial consumer of water worldwide (behind agriculture) and cotton responsible for 25 percent of all chemical pesticide use, designers and their followers are realizing it’s time to make a change. “Laura and I grew up in northern California, completely surrounded by redwoods, tide pools, mustard fields, and apple orchards. Our visual registry was created for us by our landscape,” says Rodarte’s Kate Mulleavy, who, along with her sister, drives a Lexus RX Hybrid and works to recycle all of Rodarte’s used paper and plastic. “It’s natural to be invested in working to save those sources of inspiration,” Gilhart adds. “Fashion is everywhere and we are just beginning to learn the negative effects it has on the environment; it’s inevitable that fashion becomes more eco-friendly and be the New Cool.”
Just how to do that has become the goal of Leslie Hoffman, executive director of Earth Pledge, a nonprofit organization that seeks to align the design world with the latest green technology, and who helmed the FutureFashion runway show. Her first step was to equip each designer with a portfolio of innovative fabrics, including banana- and pineapple-plant materials (from Southeast Asia), man-made bioplastics (the United States), wood-pulp derivatives (Austria), and, naturally, hemp (China).
“We’ve been through this 60-year period where design really became detached from its environmental impact,” Hoffman says. “In some ways, the rediscovery of fabrics like hemp, which was originally used to make sails, is an exploration of very old processes and agricultural techniques.”
With Earth Pledge board members such as Gilhart, and FutureFashion advisors Shalom Harlow and Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann on model-roundup duty, the group has made raising awareness—on the eve of New York Fashion Week, no less—seem easy. “Our goal is to show that there’s a big middle ground between Birkenstocks and Birkins,” says Rossellini Wiedemann (daughter of Isabella Rossellini), who will be enrolling at the London School of Economics to study issues of sustainability later this year. Certainly, the results of their efforts are already starting to show. Raf Simmons for Jil Sander did a cashmere caftan for FutureFashion and used the fabric again in his fall ’08 ready-to-wear show. Calvin Klein’s Franciso Costa says the project gave him “a chance to consider how innovative new textiles could be integrated into a modern lifestyle.” And another designer reduced his carbon footprint by eschewing shipping and delivering his outfit to Earth Pledge via a friend already traveling to the United States. As for Thakoon Panichgul, who created a slate-gray empire-waist dress for the event, he has a newfound interest in bamboo. When asked why he chose to be a part of the show, Panichgul echoed many designers: “Because any attention to this green issue for the fashion community is a must.”

source | elle

 

[*Kristina*]

Awww.... Freja and Irina!

 

[iggy190cm]

can someone scan that? HQs ^ I love it!

 

[kimair]

thanks for the pics mma...
that pic of freja and irina will surely set tongues wagging...
i like diana, liya and sasha/maryna's the best...they seem like the most "fun" and unscripted...some of them look too model-y...
stam looks supremely unhappy...

 

[mikel]

love those pics! This will be the first issue of US Elle I will buy.

 

[sylen]

Oh...my freja......

 

[homeboy]

Great cover and cute dress. But honestly I'm getting tired of all these severely air brushed photos of Madonna, too much editing to be honest.

 

[ChicParisienne]

No Agyness? Yayyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!! Btw what's Elettra doing in there? She's the face of Lancome and that's it...anyway thx MMA!!!

 

[jssy4eva]

I'm scanning the Model Citizens editorial now...anything else you guys want, just request...

 

[mikel]

yeey I can't wait.

 

[vogue28]

I can not wait to see them pics in HQ.
Sasha, Coco and Natasha look great.