US Harper’s Bazaar March 2023 : Paris Hilton by Max Farago & Kai Newman by Philip-Daniel Ducasse

[oaklee91]

Oohhh we are scared of the redemption!!

 

[Lola701]

I don’t know for me, Carine is the only one who did justice to Paris and who did a fabulous contre-emploi.

She is a pop culture icon more than she is a fashion icon so, I would have loved to see her doing the fashion thing or something aspirational and grand luxe.

Having her playing the Barbie Heiress when she is older than me is a bit reductive.

 

[Yasouss]

bad cover aside, I also feel this cover is a bit late to the party? she had a big moment back with her podcast and cooking show on Netflix and they should've capitalized on that then. Unless she has something new coming up, then I will count myself blissfully not in the know.

 

[Kimy Jo]

bad cover aside, I also feel this cover is a bit late to the party? she had a big moment back with her podcast and cooking show on Netflix and they should've capitalized on that then. Unless she has something new coming up, then I will count myself blissfully not in the know.

He has a memoir coming, but other than that i dont know

 

[Xone]

Sad Paris....but close up cover was better...she looks uncomfortable in all of them...maybe something went wrong at the shooting?...

 

[matheus_s]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Toni Ahlgren]

They didn't have to dress her like a conservative mother at a BBQ garden party just because she's ''redeeming'' herself. Pathetic cover and a shameful waste of Paris. The second one's your standard filler Vogue Mexico editorial, I'm beyond tired of that imagery but it does work better than Paris' cover. No idea who Kai Newman is but she's a beautiful woman.

Will we ever see a good Bazaar cover again?

She started around 2015, faded. Comeback in 2022 with Prada F/W, Prada Holiday and Tom ford Holiday. This season she has Ferragamo

 

[Phuel]

Will we ever see a good Bazaar cover again?

Some of Samara's covers had potential: Charliz's, Taylor Russell's, Patti Smith's, Tessa Thompson's, comes to mind.. That is, if you accept Samara’s creative vision of a more “real” face of fashion on an impromptu set. And she just drops the ball every time because either her taste is so pedestrian, or she’s unaware that these covers are just a few more test shots away from being strong… It’s so frustrating, because I see so much potential with her ideal of modern women and modern fashion; stripped off its once artifice, theatricality, and the extroverted glamour of fashion-- more so when HF has absurdly become such a caricature of women, and such parody of fashion, nowadays.

I’ve said this before (many times), and I’ll say it again: It’s her team that’s failing her "creative" vision. When the fashion stories are so… resrained, to put it politely, there needs to be a more sharper creative direction to push them to come alive, and stronger art direction to pull it all together to generate some life, some energy, something. And the types of photographers and the type of photography, aren’t helping. Someone with a greater understanding for a candid, stripped down aesthetic, like Juergen (and Terry before he was banished from fashiondom), would/could do wonders for Samara's plain Jane approach. (But… middle-age White straight men aren’t exactly in vogue these days amongst the children: Just look at the rage of the children when a straight White male dared to best Beyonce for AOTY at the Grammys LOL…) That, and the coldness, joyless, humourless stench that permeates consistently throughout her Bazaar, is such a chore to get through. (Even a shoot in Jamaica looks hilariously pedestrian in her Bazaar: Packing groceries into your hatchback... ) So. Frustrating.

 

[Xone]

Some of Samara's covers had potential: Charliz's, Taylor Russell's, Patti Smith's, Tessa Thompson's, comes to mind.. That is, if you accept Samara’s creative vision of a more “real” face of fashion on an impromptu set. And she just drops the ball every time because either her taste is so pedestrian, or she’s unaware that these covers are just a few more test shots away from being strong… It’s so frustrating, because I see so much potential with her ideal of modern women and modern fashion; stripped off its once artifice, theatricality, and the extroverted glamour of fashion-- more so when HF has absurdly become such a caricature of women, and such parody of fashion, nowadays.

I’ve said this before (many times), and I’ll say it again: It’s her team that’s failing her "creative" vision. When the fashion stories are so… resrained, to put it politely, there needs to be a more sharper creative direction to push them to come alive, and stronger art direction to pull it all together to generate some life, some energy, something. And the types of photographers and the type of photography, aren’t helping. Someone with a greater understanding for a candid, stripped down aesthetic, like Juergen (and Terry before he was banished from fashiondom), would/could do wonders for Samara's plain Jane approach. (But… middle-age White straight men aren’t exactly in vogue these days amongst the children: Just look at the rage of the children when a straight White male dared to best Beyonce for AOTY at the Grammys LOL…) That, and the coldness, joyless, humourless stench that permeates consistently throughout her Bazaar, is such a chore to get through. (Even a shoot in Jamaica looks hilariously pedestrian in her Bazaar: Packing groceries into your hatchback... ) So. Frustrating.

I think you have a valid point here @Phuel and i saw from time to time some good contents in her HB but overall is disappointing or just halfway there. In the end she is the one making the choices,approving the contents,teams, etc...and she seems more than a TEAM player than a Me player which is fine but maybe that distant her from making the best choices....and maybe there is a lack of vision in her pedestrian point of view... or maybe she doesn't want to someone outshine her which is very common between fashion people and their fragile egos.

 

[balmain1914]

this looks like a cover done by terry richardson 15 years ago

 

[PowerDroid]

Some of Samara's covers had potential: Charliz's, Taylor Russell's, Patti Smith's, Tessa Thompson's, comes to mind.. That is, if you accept Samara’s creative vision of a more “real” face of fashion on an impromptu set. And she just drops the ball every time because either her taste is so pedestrian, or she’s unaware that these covers are just a few more test shots away from being strong…

I am dying here. Samara??! So genius.

 

[VogueGirl8910]

US Harper's Bazaar it's a downhill of these days because all the features & editorials are a bunch of bad spreads on fashion magazines.

 

[ah ah]

Paris Hilton in 2023? Really!? Ok, the fashion is dead.

 

[tigerrouge]

Looking at this online, it's 240 pages. There are plenty of ads.

The Kai Newman (alternative) cover story is shot in Jamaica by Philip-Daniel Ducasse. Articles include Tory Burch interviewing Billie Jean King, there's a look at The Sisterhood, a 1970's womans writing group, a Naomi Campbell feature, women in Silicon Valley, and the short Beauty section looks back at the 90s. Back page is a tribure to Viv Westwood.

Other fashion edits include The Black and White Album, shot by Amy Troist, which isn't monochrome at all in mood, it's filtered sunlight in a back room while Edie Campbell wears the b&w pieces, followed by the Jamaica edit, Neutral Territory is a studio-shot edit by Pieter Hugo, with Chu Wong and Katie Craven. Then its Light It Up, another studio shoot, by Jessica Madavo, with Bingbing and Adhel Bol, and it opens with the mood of the current Moschino campaign.

This magazine has perked up over the past few months, I would get this issue over a lot of what I'm seeing printed at the moment. If only I didn't have to wait weeks and weeks for it to arrive, by which point, I've moved on.

 

[Phuel]

^^^ There’s a genuine gem in Amy Troost’s “The Black & White Album” with Edie Campbell. Vintage Liz & Fabien Bazaar by Carter Smith— or Franca’s Vogue by Meisel goodness: Moody, melancholic and all sly style. Edie’s giving all the subtle allure and attitude, playing dressup in her B&W wardrobe hidden away in some 70s motel 6, and steeped in the afternoon sun atmosphere of Highway 66 realness. Teases at a story unfolding. Really good. Better than anything from any American fashion rag.

 

[LANZO_358]

As a Jamaican, I'm very happy for Kai and this cover. One year after her surprising Loewe opener we get a cover! And we'll take it.
I've never bought an issue of HB but I'm definitely getting this one and February's.

 

[KoV]

Strange the digital edition is 240 pages, I’m looking through my print copy now and it’s 226 pages. Kind of a decent issue, considering the past few years. Maybe the bar has just dropped so severely that anything not super embarrassing or north of 200 pages feels like a bit of a win.

 

[tigerrouge]

There must be digital-only ad campaigns or advertorials in the online versions, because this difference in page count between print and digital has been occurring more frequently in 2023.

 

[caioherrero]

Can anyone post the editorials?

 

[vogue28]

None of this it doing it for me. I am not understanding Samira Nasr's choice of giving us two cover subjects, both of which have nothing in common with each other... feels odd and extremely random. Then, to make things worse, both covers are bland and a total non-event.