US Vogue August 2005 : Madonna by Tim Walker

[Ithillien]

^she has a credit card with a £5000 lmit to "teach her the value of money....."

 

[classic1908]

Well, I liked the piece on Gayfryd Steinberg. I'm old enough to remember the Nouvelle Society folks, and it was a good update on what she was doing. As somebody who is over 40, I don't mind the age issue.

 

[fashionista-ta]

I liked the grown-up/youthful ed, I thought it was the best thing in the magazine (from a fashion perspective). I too am tired of the themed issues ... I have thought for quite some time that US Vogue is apparently not aware it's a fashion magazine. I was particularly annoyed with the Trump wedding issue.

I enjoyed many of the articles about the women of various ages ... but where's the darned fashion?!?!

 

[eastendsnob]

Crap, I bought this issue today but left it at work and wasn't able to pore over it over a glass (or three) of wine as usual..

 

[tortoisie]

kimair, great review!
Thank you!

and I do agree with you!
I'm so bored with Caroline Trentini!

 

[texastess]

I thought the crop on the cover was horrible!

 

[adorevintage]

I want Lourde's room

 

[AD011620]

Wonderful....

 

[Bethy]

I looove that skirt in the first pic (the one with the chickens, hehe)
Lourdes is going to be a knockout when she's older

 

[hfgl]

Carolyn Murphy
ph.Steven Meisel






scanned by me

 

[t-rex]

Solitary Refinement
Photographed by Steven Meisel
Styled by Tonne Goodman
Model Carolyn Murphy

Like a Duchess
Photographed by Tim Walker
Styled by Grace Coddington
Star Madonna and her English home

Youth Crusade (one photo)
Photographed by Steven Klein
Styled by Phyllis Posnick
Models Lisa Cant and Hye Park

Stretching The Limits (one photo)
Photographed by Irving Penn
Styled by Phyllis Posnick
Model Guinevere van Seenus

Ageless
Photographed by Raymond Meier
Styled by Elissa Santisi
Model Caroline Trentini

 

[happycanadian]

I love that on the cover it's "MADONNA: Reinvented for the Very Last Time" ...

Flash forward to a decade later and Madonna is in hideous leather straps with her *** hanging out at the MET Gala.

Things that make you go hmmm...

 

[Royal-Galliano]

this was my first ever copy of US vogue <3

 

[Benn98]

I love that on the cover it's "MADONNA: Reinvented for the Very Last Time" ...

Lol, little did we know that Vogue would end up being so, so right about this!!

 

[MDNA]

A PAGE FROM GRACE CODDINGTON MEMOIRS, MADONNA’S COVER SHOOT IN 2005 VOGUE
by Grace Coddington

In 2005 I found myself working with Madonna. She was then married to Guy Ritchie and enjoying a very English life between homes in London and the countryside.

The British tabloids had embraced her to the point of fondly calling her ‘Madge’, as her current husband did, and expending miles of newsprint commenting favourably on how she wore tweeds, had taken up riding, and had been seen several times at the local pub. All the dismissive sneering concerning her involvement with Jewish Kabbalah had been replaced by approving articles on how its influence had turned her into a much more agreeable person with a plausible English accent. Our photographs were to take place at her country house, Ashcombe, once upon a time the estate of the multifaceted English artist/photographer/writer Cecil Beaton, whom I had worked with towards the end of his life. Our photographer was to be Tim Walker, a nostalgia-loving character whose body of work looked like he had conjured all his images from children’s fairytales.

Tim had travelled down early to Wiltshire to discuss all the ideas. He and Madonna met in the pub, and when I and the rest of the crew arrived a day later he ecstatically reported that she had embraced every detail he had suggested. All of which surprised me, as some of his ideas were pretty extreme.

Our first shot of her was in the drawing-room wearing a pair of jodhpurs, and that went well enough. Then came a picture in which she was supposed to wear a dress with a very full skirt. She balked at it, saying, ‘This makes me look like a 1950s débutante,’ which, of course, was pretty much the effect we were after.

Things went comparatively smoothly with our next two set-ups. We took a picture of her in bed reading the newspapers with her children. Next we took a shot of Madonna out riding with Guy. Galloping back, she couldn’t have failed to notice that we had started to turn all her sheep pretty shades of pastel in readiness for a picture later on. Then she started to grow testy. ‘I’m going to do the picture of her in the martini glass next,’ Tim told me enthusiastically while Madonna was upstairs changing. I do remember asking if he was absolutely certain she had agreed to this. ‘Oh yes,’ he said as she came down, looked out the window, and saw, on her lawn, an enormous martini glass with a giant cherry in it and a ladder propped at its side waiting to carry her up.

‘I’m not doing that. No way,’ said Madonna grimly. She firmly vetoed the image, and when he suggested another that involved her wearing a hat that looked like a cream cake, she angrily refused that, too.

Finally, she calmed down a little when we set up a photograph reminiscent of a Bruce Weber portrait of Debo, Duchess of Devonshire, feeding the chickens on her country estate at Chatsworth. But after that, even though there was another day to go, the mood was far too negative and the session was, for all intents and purposes, over. Sadly, the extraordinary dress – a huge crinoline that John Galliano had made specially for the shoot – was caught in the crossfire. She looked so gloomy in it that the photograph

telegraph.co.uk

MESS.

I just found this, no wonder she hasn't been on the cover of US Vogue for over a decade, she definitely tops their celebrities-difficult-to-deal-with lists.

 

[kasper!]

Does anyone have the Meisel story?

 

[KoV]

Anytime one of these threads gets bumped (I take no issues with this, btw) and I see it in the recent posts sidebar, I have a moment where I think it's a new cover and I get all excited. "US Vogue" and "Madonna" jumped out to me ahead of "August" and "2005".

 

[justaguy]

Photo Tim Walker
Editor Grace Coddington
Model Madonna
Hair Julien d'Ys
Makeup Gina Brooke


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[justaguy]

Solitary Refinement Pt. 1
Photo Steven Meisel
Editor Tonne Goodman
Model Carolyn Murphy
Hair Garren
Makeup Pat McGrath

 

[justaguy]

Solitary Refinement Pt. 2


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