US Vanity Fair September 2008 : Carla Bruni by Annie Leibovitz

[MissMagAddict]

from Vanity Fair...

Four Faces of London
by Nicholas Coleridge
September 2008

What is it about London girls? Not that the four iconic models in this David Bailey portfolio are all Brits, but together they sum up five decades of London cool. Photographed in outfits designed by Christopher Bailey (no relation) for Burberry, created specially for this V.F. shoot, they exude the uncompromising individual quirkiness that’s been the hallmark of London from the days of Carnaby Street, Pop art, and Mary Whitehouse to those of Topshop, Britart, and Amy Winehouse. The antithesis of the cookie-cutter Eastern Europeans who trudge today’s global catwalks, or the sleek late-80s supermodels—Cindy, Linda, Christy—they transcended the anonymous-model genre to become personalities in their own right.

Veruschka, born Vera Gräfin von Lehndorff-Steinort into a noble family in East Prussia, may be the industry’s first modern, high-recognition face. Her brief appearance in Blow-Up, Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 cult film based on David Bailey’s Beatnik milieu, was called by Premiere magazine the sexiest scene in cinema history. That same year she did her first shoot wearing nothing but body paint. This month Assouline is publishing Veruschka, a limited-edition book that distills her legend. Penelope Tree, the daughter of journalist and M.P. Ronald Tree and American socialite Marietta Tree, after being spotted by Diana Vreeland and championed by Richard Avedon, gravitated to London, to the studio—and quickly the bedroom—of Bailey. Her doll-like features, gangly figure, and nonconformist attitude (she once shaved off her eyebrows “to look more like a Martian”) earned her the drooling admiration of the Beatles generation. Because she has seldom been seen smiling for the camera, her portrait here is historic. Twiggy, born Lesley Hornby in the London suburb of Neasden and known for her big eyes, long fake eyelashes, and tiny waist, epitomized 60s Swinging London, just as Kate Moss from Croydon epitomizes the city over the past two decades. Groover, designer, serial rock-star girlfriend, she’s currently Britain’s most recognizable woman, after the Queen and Victoria Beckham.

 

[versustito]

Levangelista.net
VF Sept 2008

All supermodels in Prada

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Thats it i had ENOUGH of Prada for a lifetime,geez its everywhere in all the September issues.

But nice shot nontheless, thanks for posting.

 

[LizzyF]

Love Kate's photo!
And the Supermodels little editorial is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! Those women look GREAT!!!
Thanks for all the pics

 

[MissMagAddict]

Levangelista.net
VF Sept 2008
All supermodels in Prada

Just so you know... that image wasn't published like that in the magazine... only the section with Stephanie & Claudia as part of one of the table of contents pages.

Thanks for posting versustito... I can use that for the stylists version of the same look thread

 

[Style-Addict]

Thanks for the pic versustito!

 

[mikel]

Just so you know... that image wasn't published like that in the magazine... only the section with Stephanie & Claudia as part of one of the table of contents pages.

That's bad

 

[ponytrot]

holy #121

did they deliberately try to catch those women at the most unflattering angles possible?

 

[Harumi]

Just finished reading the Carla article. It was surprisingly interesting, not the dipsy puff piece I was expecting but a rather honest portrait.
The best dressed features was a complete waste of time imo, they could have put it on their web-site and used the print space for something more useful.
Globally, the contents are quite good, even if I cringed at the way the LA times bombing article was written. So pretentious and convoluted. Get to the point already!

 

[sethii]

Four Faces of London
by Nicholas Coleridge
September 2008
The antithesis of the cookie-cutter Eastern Europeans who trudge today’s global catwalks, or the sleek late-80s supermodels—Cindy, Linda, Christy—they transcended the anonymous-model genre to become personalities in their own right.

I'm so sick of these ignorant comments which often contain undercurrents of prejudice.

 

[FlanAuxAbricots]

^i don't see how that comment is ignorant

 

[Harumi]

I'm so sick of these ignorant comments which often contain undercurrents of prejudice.

Well it is indeed a gross generalisation. I can see how Natalia or Tanya could be described as cookie-cutter but Daria? Eugenia? Anja? Natasha? Sasha?
Could these writers be lazier and more cliché?

 

[mikel]

I'm so sick of these ignorant comments which often contain undercurrents of prejudice.

indeed, its even more ingorant when you consider the fact that they put those eastern european girls on their cover (april 05)

 

[FlanAuxAbricots]

^but they're not saying all eastern europeans are cookie-cutter. offcourse daria, sasha, natasha etc are not but they're saying those 4 is the anti-thesis to the ones that are. and there indeed are so many of them that come and go every season.

 

[mikel]

^thats true.

 

[Harumi]

^but they're not saying all eastern europeans are cookie-cutter. offcourse daria, sasha, natasha etc are not but they're saying those 4 is the anti-thesis to the ones that are. and there indeed are so many of them that come and go every season.

Well, interpreted like that, I agree.

indeed, its even more ingorant when you consider the fact that they put those eastern european girls on their cover (april 05)

Oh please. we are discussing the comments of a particular journalist who isn't responsible or accountable for every editorial decisions made by the magazine in the last 3 years.

 

[AD011620]

judt ogt my copy. in supermodels session Claudia and Stephanie look superb! rest is okay... Carla's edit is beautiful.

 

[fujiko]

There's someone who has saw inside the mag a Bloomingdale's "ads" with Jeisa Chiminazzo?

 

[MissMagAddict]

Even though I enjoyed the Carla Bruni-Sarkozy interview [the images were stunning]... and some of the other articles as well... Truly, Madly, Nicky is by far the best thing about this issue... he's so funny & honest. I can't wait to read his book.

 

[Harumi]

^so true. He reminds me of Karl Lagerfeld, if Karl had feelings.