US Harper’s Bazaar October 2024 : Jennie by Zoë Ghertner

[matheus_s]

The home issue with…?

 

[mikel]

Dreadful!

 

[MModa]

I like both the cover and the photographs inside. The styling is perfect and the gold is a nice touch.

 

[MDNA]

wow she's really there giving us nothing.

 

[blueorchid]

Why don't these K-Pop girlies give any life in their photos?

 

[tigerrouge]

That entire industry is an exercise in providing an audience with a blank slate for maximum projection, while also giving rise to the least offence possible.

 

[KoV]

She and her bandmates have made a commitment to never serve.

 

[kikifoz]

wet rat

 

[blueorchid]

That’s an insult to wet rats

 

[Phuel]

“Blackpink Jennie will always be a part of me, but you will also get to experience this new side” LMFAO— spoken like a true scripted AI fembot to optimize consumer-spending for a new brand produced by her corporate overlords.

As much as this is a bought coverstory, admittedly, it’s nice to see an Asian face on the cover of these Western rags, but these Kpop girls/boys are so assembly-lined dead in the eyes products, with not a sliver of individuality, let alone style, they may as well be plastic mannequins with anime features. But they must have learned from the mother of all fembots-- Beyonce, about optimizing brand profile and profits, while saying as little as possible, lest you offend someone, anyone. That it’s Zoe, the mother of AI-photography 101, shooting this, is sort of brilliantly hilarious in its irony.

And despite all this, Samara’s Bazaar still possesses more life, energy and a POV than the editors of French/English/Italian/American Vogue combined.













Harpers Bazaar USA October 2024

 

[Kimy Jo]

That shot with the close up on the nose… imagine pay money for that

 

[AristoCrazy]

She has never ever served but this is truly GHASTLY. She is supposed to be the "pretty one" of her group but when taken out of the kpop styling and filter, she's plainer than an unglazed donut

 

[blueorchid]

And despite all this, Samara’s Bazaar still possesses more life, energy and a POV than the editors of French/English/Italian/American Vogue combined.

I truly feel like we're watching a baby learn how to walk with Samira at Bazaar.

 

[MModa]

I do not like the fashion editorials in this issue. "Life's Rich Pageant" and "Cool Front" do not appeal to me at all. I think that they are visually terrible.

 

[heyjaded]

I think the only covers with these kpop idols that I liked were the ones with V. It’s really remarkable how Jennie is so beautiful in music videos but gives nothing in pictures. Truly the Alicia Vikander of kpop. They’re gonna keep trying to make those girls happen on their own but those solo songs simply are not doing it, not even Rosalía could save Lisa’s. Also I really don’t like Ghertner’s photography, the composition bothers me a lot.

 

[Rigida]

I like "Cool Front". It's chic and mature. "Life's Rich Pageant" has potential but I'm not a fan of the layout.

 

[GivenchyHomme]

So we got Jennie and Lisa. Who's next? Karen and Stephanie? Are they just pulling names out of a hat? Jokes aside, who is the key demographic for this subject? Are the women that read HB really going to know who this singer is? Will they even care?

 

[vogue28]

Because I'm always bashing Samira Nasr, I will start off on a positive note: I like the colours. I like the Chanel, and the graphic black masthead. Not too fond of the wet hair, the lank pose from Jennie and Zoë Ghertner's amateur photography. That shot of Jennie in the white Chanel dress with the Bazaar masthead attached ought to have been the final cover.

 

[blueorchid]

So we got Jennie and Lisa. Who's next? Karen and Stephanie? Are they just pulling names out of a hat?

Sounds like a 5th grade classroom in 1992.

 

[VanillaCrush]

Of all the things that KPop is, of all the fun they could have had with this, somehow we end up with a bored-looking girl on a plain white background. How? x100. I don't understand how you can miss the mark THAT bad.