US Vogue November 2009 : Marion, Penelope, Nicole and Kate by Annie Leibovitz

[mikel]

^Strange she wasn't featured then.

 

[*ana*]

Playing the Field
Model: Karen Elson
Photographer: Craig McDean
Hair: Didier Malige
Makeup: Gucci Westman
Stylist: Grace Coddington

this is so beautiful but SO short
thanks for scanning

 

[iriswills]

This is exactly how I feel about a lot of the models Anna overuses. I can stare at a beautiful painting forever but a bland boring one? No one wants to see it over and over. I'm so so tired of these plain models being elevated to greatness. A true model should be breathtaking and memorable in some way.

Christy Turlington is one of the most beautiful women in the world, but I still got sick of her after Vogue used her so much. Same with Amber and Shalom. I suppose I could get sick of Karlie too but, considering Vogue's history, I have learned to stretch my patience out more than some I guess.

 

[VogueGirl8910]

I really like the Karen's ed.

 

[Demelza]

Karen is the hottest redhead, love her!

 

[simple_elegance]

just got my issue today!

 

[Jacque Marcel]

^ me too, and straight into my recycling bin

 

[tigerrouge]

Well, that's expressing "green living" just like this issue is encouraging us to consider.

 

[Jacque Marcel]

Well, that's expressing "green living" just like this issue is encouraging us to consider.

that's true, but i'm always very "green" with US Vogue...

 

[Guero]

When Anna Wintour likes of a model she does everything she can to get her through our eyes, Caroline Trentini, Coco Rocha, Raquel Zimmerman, Jessica Stam and so on. This time she's not gonna make it, Karlie Kloss is just plain ugly and boring, to see her on a runway or in four spreads in Vogue it's just painful.

 

[simple_elegance]

I don't have any problem with Karlie, but using her in nearly every editorial this issue is a bit much. (However, I would like to steal a few inches from her height and put them on me, then we'd be the same size. XD)

 

[mikel]

When Anna Wintour likes of a model she does everything she can to get her through our eyes, Caroline Trentini, Coco Rocha, Raquel Zimmerman, Jessica Stam and so on. This time she's not gonna make it, Karlie Kloss is just plain ugly and boring, to see her on a runway or in four spreads in Vogue it's just painful.

Jessica Stam never was a Anna Wintour fave.

 

[hfgl]

^ me too, and straight into my recycling bin

Don't do that,send it to me!

 

[cottonmouth13]

Don't do that,send it to me!

^ yeah right!

i'll get this this issue just because of Tom Sturridge (god i love him! ), Karen Elson, because Marion is in this and the madness of Karlie Kloss!

 

[tigerrouge]

It's a surprisingly negative article to be about someone so rare as Hedy Lamarr - a genius and a beauty icon in one. I would like to understand where her negative assessment comes from, I can't see any references to that...

Just got round to reading it - yet another person wishing to write a storyline in which a woman with brains and beauty must also be desperately unhappy.

You do get these unevolved assessments of women, you just don't expect to see them in Vogue. And I think Allure did an article about Hedy not so long ago which was much briefer yet much better, so it's not as if the writer is breaking new ground in magazines with this piece... merely going backwards.

There wasn't even an interesting spin on the mechanics of Hedy's supposed unhappiness. There was a short article in US Elle recently about the definition of happiness and how it's often measured as "passive acceptance". In contrast, to make positive changes in the world, you have to be discontent with some aspect of it and curious about a solution. That's how things get invented or improved - and it seems that scientific invention was part of her life.

It could even be claimed that her plastic surgery was an attempt to apply a scientific solution to a physical problem - but no, it has to be a sign of her tremendous despair.

Vogue has somehow found a writer who can detail Hedy's immensely varied accomplishments and life experiences - and then describe the woman as possibly having 'no real depth', with a 'petty and vain personality' and lacking in 'self-awareness, humor, irony'. She'd better not be writing a book about her.

 

[Karen0193]

I'm loving Karen's ed but I'm having a Karlie overdose, that's painfully bad for my health !

 

[clo]

I'm not sure whether Carolyn Murphy's feature has been posted but I have just scanned it and know that if it hasn't, some people will be happy to see it. If it has please feel free to delete it.

Image credit: US Vogue November 2009; scanned by me

 

[agee]

Karlie is a great poser and is following in Coco's and Raquel's footsteps and becoming an editorial queen. I am not a full-blown fan of her yet, but I am impressed with her. I can see how people can be frustrated that there is so much Karlie, but I don't think that it is easy casting a model that can pose, emote and look good in clothes all at the same time, especially since most models in their prime haven't even turned twenty yet.

 

[angel222]

Nicole Kidman has so much Botox she looks horrible bad cover, no cares about the film anyways let's see some real models.

 

[Franzy]

^ ALOT of people care about the film.