US Vogue December 2024 : Kaia Gerber by Steven Meisel

[JPineapple]

There's another ed by Luis Alberto Rodriguez and styled by Tonne Goodman

 

[jeremydante]

It may have been said in this thread, but im not gonna read through all 7 pages to find it.

I sense that Marc is being primed and prepped to take the helm when Anna retires. Which would be appropriate but also very fun, refreshing and another notch on Marc's iconic belt. I love this issue, the cover and all the choices made. Excellent.

The future of American Vogue is Marc's for the taking, if you ask me.
And if you didn't ask me? Too bad, Im telling y'all anyway.

 

[tigerrouge]

It'll be written into his contract that he'll have to wave his talons over a crystal ball every afternoon, and continue to take his directions from the other side like a good boy.

 

[avonlea002]

While better than the previous issues, it's still mediocre at best.
I&V ed is just awful. I will never get their phenomenon. Back in the day they managed to produce something good once in a blue moon, especially in 90's but now they churn out some of the laziest and tackiest work out there.
Carlijn's photography is too digital looking for my liking. I only tolerate her when she is ripping off Guy Bourdin.

 

[tomtakesphotos]

honestly rotating creatives serving as EIC would be amazing, i'd love to see meisel as EIC, the rodarte sisters, grace coddington, the opening ceremony duo, the proenza duo-- there's a lot there i think, A magazine does this, but of course, on a commercial Vogue level it's a different world

 

[MModa]

It may have been said in this thread, but im not gonna read through all 7 pages to find it.

I sense that Marc is being primed and prepped to take the helm when Anna retires. Which would be appropriate but also very fun, refreshing and another notch on Marc's iconic belt. I love this issue, the cover and all the choices made. Excellent.

The future of American Vogue is Marc's for the taking, if you ask me.
And if you didn't ask me? Too bad, Im telling y'all anyway.

I do not see it coming, especially, after reading Jacobs' response regarding his role in a recent interview with the fashion critic Vanessa Friedman of The New York Times:

"FRIEDMAN: Marc, did you ever think, Why did I say yes to this? Or did it make you want to start your own magazine?

JACOBS: This was a really nice little guest appearance, but it’s not something I want to do twice. I really love my job. I’m not a frustrated actor or architect. And this way I have two firsts. There’ll never be another first designer at Louis Vuitton, and there’ll never be another first guest editor who’s a designer at American Vogue.

FRIEDMAN: Anna, does this mean you are considering handing over the magazine on a more permanent basis?

WINTOUR: No. Absolutely not. I’m like Marc. I love my job. I love all aspects of it and hope to be able to do it for a long time to come."

Source: "When Anna Wintour Let Marc Jacobs Do Her Job." The New York Times. Nov. 10, 2024.

 

[Lola701]

So far, only Grace and Tonne’s eds feels timeless. The photography and styling feels very much relevant.
I’m really not sold on the beauty ed and the dance story. The dance story is so cliché in it styling. I think I&V did a better job with Emmanuelle when they did the Couture in the club thing.
When the only thing you find relevant to portray hip-hop is to style models as b-boys from the 80’s, you know that there’s a lack of imagination.

It could have been more interesting to do à contre-emploi for once…

Marc brought back Meisel? He should have brought back Carlyne too.

 

[A.D.C.]

Vogue after Anna will just become another irrelevant once iconic rag. Like Time, Rollingstone, Vanity Fair, etc. it’s basically already there barely hanging on.

 

[MModa]

Vogue after Anna will just become another irrelevant once iconic rag. Like Time, Rollingstone, Vanity Fair, etc. it’s basically already there barely hanging on.

Let's think optimistically. I say it will be great with a visionary editor.

 

[EDEN21]

'Gotta Dance!'
Photography by Inez and Vinoodh
Styled by Alastair McKimm
with: Bibi Breslin, Angelina Kendall, Amelia Gray, Lulu Tenney, Vivienne Rohner, Amara Gisele

source

It's giving America's Next Top Model photoshoot, Rodriguez did a far superior iteration

 

[tigerrouge]

My polite take would be - it can be very difficult to capture the energy of dance in still photography.

It's like trying to photograph athletes - it's usually easier to capture the beauty or the character of their bodies in a portrait or as a still life shot, than it is to ever successfully convey any sense of movement.

 

[EDEN21]

@tigerrouge you're correct, Capturing movement in a still photograph is very difficult, but we have an example in this same volume of dance ed that, while by no means revolutionary, makes I&V's shoot look like a visual-design undergrad student's project.

My critique is not so much that they failed to capture the dance, it's the inauthenticity, the datedness, and amateur-ness that should really not get a pass in a magazine with Vogue's (former) esteem and for photographers with so much experience and clout

 

[MModa]

I can imagine that capturing dance might not be an easy task with a photo camera. However, I love the majority of the shots in "Gotta Dance!" The photographs just look beautiful, fresh, and exciting. Inez and Vinoodh were a great match for the story.

 

[vogue22]

Let's think optimistically. I say it will be great with a visionary editor.

Name one visionary editor in the fashion magazine landscape right now that could replace her.

 

[MModa]

Name one visionary editor in the fashion magazine landscape right now that could replace her.

I do not know everyone's potential and who could edit it successfully but there must be someone out there.

 

[alwaysademo]

My polite take would be - it can be very difficult to capture the energy of dance in still photography.

It's like trying to photograph athletes - it's usually easier to capture the beauty or the character of their bodies in a portrait or as a still life shot, than it is to ever successfully convey any sense of movement.

Fact. And to do it and maintain a strong sense of composition is even harder.

 

[Drusilla_]

agreed on the difficulty of capturing dance in photographs (it's not impossible), though I thought party photography in the 00s nailed the energy pretty well by being more focused on the atmosphere of the place than capturing moves, per se.

 

[Drusilla_]

I like the colourful tights in #121, Tonne's styling >>> the other dance editorial

 

[velvetandsilk]

OMG
HAVE NOT SEEN SOMETHING AS CHEESY AND TACKY AS THIS “dance” PORTFOLIO IN A LONG TIME. ARE THESE PEOPLE STILL STUCK IN I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT ERA?!? THE ERA OF FOREVER TACKYNESS LOL
THIS IS PATHETIC EVEN FOR THE VOGUE US.

The framing in some of the photos looks like a freshman's where these people have eyes...

 

[iriswills]

The Meisel cover(s) and editorial are unnerving… but not in an interesting or innovative way. I really don’t think Vogue was ever about, or should ever be about, creating unsettling imagery, lol. Hard pass for me.