It's both because it's a flare up, they're not exclusive to lyme disease but any chronic illness, which will always be impacted by the immune system, which in turn is impacted by stress [from the more conscious, 'freaking out about work/money' stress, to the less manageable one that stems from battling another illness, pain, allergic reaction, you name it]. To give you an example, I get pretty bad migraines a couple times a year, if I don't act as soon as I start feeling it, no amount of ibuprofen will bring it down and the pain tends to be so bad that it's always followed by an IBS flare-up and within a day or so: a fcking cold.
I think she left her root canal infection untreated and was probably taking painkillers to keep going.. which is stupid but also very common, most people feel something in their teeth and proceed to ignore it until they're in major trouble..
Anyway, mediocre cover. They're all Anna's strategic choices that have everything to do with Vogue's agenda on numbers, commodity activism, social media submissiveness, her eternally vanilla understanding of beauty, and so little to do with Karl.
That being said, Chanel under Karl was a gigantic snoozefest in his last decade. The Aschenbach-Tadzio dynamics in his castings, where you wouldn't see the end of his obsession with some really charmless model [Baptiste, Brad Kroening and his son]... I don't miss that. He did have a very defined vision of the Chanel woman right till the end, from Ciara Nugent and Anouck to Grace Elizabeth and even Lily Rose, they all had that elegant, flapper-ish vibe that made it instantly recognisable, but we all know that for a project like this, he would've delivered that
and squeezed Brad's son right in the middle.
What I really don't understand is Naomi lol, that's just random as hell. I can't imagine someone seriously thinking '
what about.... Naomi?', so I'll just stick to my conspiracy theory that she has some political dirt on the industry's major players, and that's how she forces herself into
every project where she makes absolutely no sense and is not needed and is out of theme but that she firmly believes she needs to pee mark like a cat and be a part of to teach the new generations but especially the new models, who is in command and who needs to approve them first lol. More than iCoNiC, she's the Karen of modeling who
does succeed with the manager every single time..
