Quick recap of June's Vogue, Bazaar, and W:
Mario Testino's editorial with Salma Hayek is rather uninspired:
To put it bluntly, a woman who is short and curvy like Salma Hayek is the antithesis of Vogue so I don't know what she's doing on the cover. The cover design (the full body shot, the blue lettering) was amateurish. If I didn't know it was for
US Vogue, I would guess that it was a foreign edition that re-used
US Vogue's celeb pictorial. I however do thank the stylist for covering Hayek up--after Cannes, I was in no mood to see more of her cleavage.
Editorials:
Steven Meisel shoots a variety of beauties: Eugenia (stunning in Gaultier couture), Doutzen (most amazing legs), Marija+Diana Dondoe+Cameron Russell (amazing girls who are overdue for their US Vogue debut), Gemma Ward, Lily Donaldson, and Caroline Trentini. I think the brown background is a bit too heavy for summer and some of the outfits seem downright bizaare (horse riding pants?), but the real tragedy here is that Meisel lost a chance to tell a coherent story with his pictures--the series is absurdly broken into pieces to accommodate
Vogue's "contributing editors" (rolls eyes) who writing doesn't appear to have much relevance to Meisel's pictures.
Arthur Elgort shoots Gemma Ward in a cottage. There is simply no energy in these pictures and the selection of clothes is poor and random. Gemma looks ridiculously pale. Apparently the unhuman tan from her Testino UK Vogue story "Animal Magic" didn't last.
Raymond Meier is this issue's saving grace as he shoots Heather Marks in the token accessories edit. Even though it is an accessories edit, the clothes have outshown the bags. My faves are Sophia Kokosalaki and Hermes:
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But I gotta admit that Heather looks strangely Botox-y here. Her forehead glistens.
