US Harper’s Bazaar May 2025 : Linda Evangelista by Anthony Seklaoui

[Deleted member 116957]

Older people who lead rich and vibrant lives? Hahaha! Get F. real. Get off your social media and connect with real life.

Well, considering I actually KNOW people like that... I do get out of the house. Maybe disconnect from your Versace/Linda shrine and, as they say, touch grass. You don't consider your life vibrant or rich? How sad LOL.

Luckily, Linda unlike 99.9% of the population is lucky enough to pay someone to wipe her a*s, with her attitude she's probably already been paying someone to do that for decades. Also, the fans that worship her could do it for free...

 

[TuttiFruti]

Well, considering I actually KNOW people like that... I do get out of the house. Maybe disconnect from your Versace/Linda shrine and, as they say, touch grass. You don't consider your life vibrant or rich? How sad LOL.

Luckily, Linda unlike 99.9% of the population is lucky enough to pay someone to wipe her a*s, with her attitude she's probably already been paying someone to do that for decades. Also, the fans that worship her could do it for free...

It's humiliating that someone has to wipe your a*ss, even if you have the money to pay them.

My life is about moments; I don't believe in absolute happiness. People who always claim to be happy are pathetic.

 

[Deleted member 116957]

My life is about moments; I don't believe in absolute happiness. People who always claim to be happy are pathetic.

You don't seem to believe in literacy, either. Having a rich life doesn't mean having a brainlessly happy life.

 

[tigerrouge]

I was about to say, "the current paper quality of magazines wouldn't be great for wiping your ****," but that sounds like I know about it, from experience. As if, ten years ago, they were.

 

[TuttiFruti]

You don't seem to believe in literacy, either. Having a rich life doesn't mean having a brainlessly happy life.

A rich life also includes struggle, meaning, and depth.

Feeling alive and true to yourself is often richer than simply "feeling good" all the time.

That's why Linda says that she wants to live. And here some were making fun of that.

 

[KoV]

Linda has such a dark energy to me, I can’t stand her.

it’s giving

 

[Deleted member 116957]

@KoV hmmm... my feeling is more this kinda vibe (Carla Bruni and Irina Shayk also give me the same dark energy)

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[KoV]

Relatable. There are certainly people in the industry (or adjacent) with horrendous energy. Like, shiver-down-your-spine, skin-crawlingly bad. I’ve never seen Linda that way at all, but it’s all subjective, I suppose!

 

[Deleted member 116957]

@KoV Yes, that's just the top models for me... not the other adjacencies such as photographers, etc. (I forgot to add Guinevere van Seenus to the dark energy list)

Ironically, not Naomi... because she's openly a Disney villain. So there's nothing to hide.

 

[tigerrouge]

And people wonder why she never gets cancelled. She's just a Disney villain. No real-life humans were ever hurt in connection with those activities. Everything she's ever done we know about already... except for those revelations about 'yet another thing' that seem to come out on a semi-regular basis.

 

[Deleted member 116957]

The continued existence of Naomi’s career proves that cancel culture doesn’t actually exist, despite how much people bellyache about it.

 

[djowodjo30]

Sweet Relief

Photo : Vincent Van De Wijngaard
Styling : Imruh Asha
Model : Sacha Quenby



HB US digital edition

 

[GivenchyAddict]

^this layout is criminal.

 

[MModa]

^this layout is criminal.

I agree. The photographs are stunning. They deserve full bleed.

 

[djowodjo30]

Everlasting Beauty

Model : Linda Evangelista
Photography : Anthony Seklaoui
Styling : Carlos Nazario
Story : Linda Wells



HB US Digital Edition

 

[GivenchyAddict]

I agree. The photographs are stunning. They deserve full bleed.

The issue I think is that they requested x amount of images without thinking that VVDW is known for doing a lot of horizontal images, so the shoot may have taken more space than it should have. They squeezed them as much as possible, hence this horrible result.

 

[MModa]

The issue I think is that they requested x amount of images without thinking that VVDW is known for doing a lot of horizontal images, so the shoot may have taken more space than it should have. They squeezed them as much as possible, hence this horrible result.

Yes, page count is the issue. They did a similar layout with a fashion story "Going Places" by Vincent Van De Wijngaard starring Malgosia Bela in the August 2022 issue. Again, beautiful horizontal photographs with way too much white space around every one of them.

 

[tigerrouge]

Looking at the digital copy, it's showing 122 pages, although the actual print page count seems to be closer to 110 pages. Inside front cover ad is Zendaya for Vuitton.

The editor's note talks about all the connections to the cover story - including how, as a Canadian, Linda was always fashion royalty to her, with the interview being done by Linda Wells, once her former boss.

In the main section, you get the Linda cover story, the fashion editorial (as seen above), and then there's an accessories shoot, EXQUISITELY SERVED, which is shots of jewellery on surfaces like plates.

It's a May issue, but it has that skinny summer issue feel.

 

[Phuel]

^this layout is criminal.

Probably one of the stronger— if not the strongest story, this Bazaar has ever produced: Worthy of Liz x Fabien’s Bazaar. And it’s completely let down by an unforgivable layout. The art direction of this Bazaar has always been the worst. They needed to invest in the double page spread pagecount for this story, even adding several more spreads. Because it’s the worthy, singular ray of light that there’s still some talent, still some creative vision, and some passion still alive and kicking in American fashion publications. And I wonder if Samara appreciates or even understands that this is the brand of fashion vision that needs to be an anchor for her Bazaar. Sadly I doubt she does. (Instead, Linda’s feature story of vulnerability, authentic, and peace with aging— only to have the accompanying shoot be retouched to oblivion is utterly lacking in self-awareness; or just deliberately self-sabotaging in all its hypocrisy of accepting aging, is the blatant epitome of ageism LOOL I can’t with how witless Samara can be (…then again, this woman did post that being without electricity is the worst thing inflicted on anyone).

(@blueorchid : Stopped by St.Catherine’s back in January. And although it’s an absolutely quint, sleepy sort of Norman Rockwell smalltown where happily nothing happens, I can see why she could never belonged nor returned there. Maybe even detrimental to her becoming the silly diva she’s reputed to be during her reign. Some models having a brief stint of the fashion high life, then will easily transition back to their anonymity in the suburbs or small town contently. Back in the beginning of my career, I worked with the gentleman who had discovered all these guys that all became internationally faces for 15min in the early 2000. And by the late-2000s, these guys were no longer being represented by his agency nor working in the industry anymore. He told me they returned to their suburban origins; opened their own construction businesses— or bars, with the money they had made from modelling. Linda would never be able to do that— mingle with the lowly nobodies from small-town nowhere, since apparently lining up outside Chanel is as low as she’s willing to slum it. Her and Samara truly are birds of a feather LMFAO)

 

[VanillaCrush]

Looking at the digital copy, it's showing 122 pages, although the actual print page count seems to be closer to 110 pages. Inside front cover ad is Zendaya for Vuitton.

The editor's note talks about all the connections to the cover story - including how, as a Canadian, Linda was always fashion royalty to her, with the interview being done by Linda Wells, once her former boss.

In the main section, you get the Linda cover story, the fashion editorial (as seen above), and then there's an accessories shoot, EXQUISITELY SERVED, which is shots of jewellery on surfaces like plates.

It's a May issue, but it has that skinny summer issue feel.

110 pages because Linda's following will be buying it for the cover story.
I was going thorough Vogue archives ad noticed even a few years ago, issues had 200+ pages every month. God I hate what magazines have become. They are killing their own industry.