US Harper’s Bazaar April 2023 : Brie Larson by Collier Schorr

[liberty33r1b]

boring and bad

 

[Bernie Flood]

I've officially ran out of descriptives to describe how wretched US magazines have become.
That hair!? The fact that Samira didn't recognize on the spot that those white boots would make her legs look stumpy!?
It's so amateur.

And its like we’re being inclusive, diverse etc. yawnnn fest.

 

[NYLA22]

I have run out of things to say about the horrible state of magazines these past few years. Depressing, banal, boring, lifeless. All of them. It's almost like the idea of creating something beautiful has become offensive to the editors of Conde Nast and Hearst.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

How is this the same person? How difficult is it for magazines to do a classic portrait for the cover if fragrance companies can?

british vogue/ decorte

 

[tigerrouge]

I have run out of things to say about the horrible state of magazines these past few years. Depressing, banal, boring, lifeless. All of them. It's almost like the idea of creating something beautiful has become offensive to the editors of Conde Nast and Hearst.

Magazines are nothing more than scared little followers of whatever's churned out on the internet, obedient to the algorithms designed to keep everyone - no matter their age - thinking and acting like stunted adolescents, sucking up products and agendas.

People need to look at the devices in their hand and realise everything exists to encourage you to act like a teenager, stuck in that mode of basing everything on superficial appearances, being obsessed with sex, desperately pinning your identity to certain groups while bullying anyone who isn't part of your 'tribe', all the while thinking nothing through to its real-life consequences, and when anything inconvenient is pointed out, labelling it as some form of 'hater'. Because that would be the actions of a well-rounded adult.

Most of the main titles - there is nothing in them for people who are happy to be adults. Just an endless drip of low-effort sh*t. The equivalent of constantly wearing designer-label sweatpants at home and wanting applause for your daring fashion choices.

In this age, magazines should be a slice of life that mixes the mundane with the extraordinary. On one page, you could see yourself, the next page, something you could never imagine. Best of both worlds. And a good editor could balance it all.

 

[Phuel]

^^^ I can’t imagine anyone that actually possesses creative talent and an actual individual POV of the cinematic scope for high fashion production, would ever actively seek to be a part of the mainstream Western fashion publishing industry in 2023. Why would they…??? Italian and French Bazaar show potential— although still too early to invest in them as some beacon of high standard at this time; and the more exclusive publications Self Service/Purple/Holiday are too insider when it comes to their hiring; unless you run in the same social circles as the teams there, no amount of talent will get you in with them.

These mainstream rags really are followers, for followers that mindlessly, numbingly, passively parrot and pander to the most pedestrian denominators in SM; to optimize brand profile; and maximize advertisers' profit. That’s it— that’s all it’s about: Highest of fashion creative POV and standards be damned. It’s all about the mid-range/budget department-store marketing approach based on algorithms, hoarding likes/followers and SEO. If that’s your standard in fashion, then this is your time and place…

There are better selects from the coverstory than the one that they chose of course— especially one where she’s in all-white and seated; looking like early-2000 Diane Kruger. It seems a deliberate move to always go with the most mundane select for the cover, even to go as far as to cut off the feet... Weird. Their AD Gary Ponzo is awful (…was he Glenda’s AD cuz the same heavy-handedness is still there???), with the skills and experience of a 1st-year design student interning. HIs type selection and layout is just so offensively pedestrian.

hips.hearstapps.com

 

[tigerrouge]

This issue is showing as 138 pgs in my digital edition. Further to the cover story, there's also BIG SKYE, Tess Breeden shot by Ben Toms, styled by Kate Shillingford (I hope they didn't waste the money to actually go to Skye to shoot this. They would be better off using a scenic reprint from the British version), SPRING SHIFT, Laura Reyes shot in a studio by Lucie Fox, styled by Camille B-W. Plus women's soccer, an interview with Donatella Versace, and that's the end.

This issue makes me think the Paris Hilton cover was the one to buy.

 

[caioherrero]

Can someone post the edits?

 

[caioherrero]

No one?

 

[Xone]

No one?

I guess no one cares about HB....or care enough to own digital copies lol...