US Vogue November 2015 : Angelina Jolie by Annie Leibovitz

[Benn98]

Wow, what's happening with the art direction?? It's really awful.

 

[dior_couture1245]

Once again - the online Vogue is putting the print edition to shame! Online Fashion Editors and stylists Jorden Bickham and Alex Harrington should really be working on the magazine full time!
http://www.vogue.com/projects/13362346/best-looks-paris-fashion-week/


Like last month's online "Grunge" feature - the content is fresh, the casting is great, the styling is interesting - pulling from big and small labels alike, clever art direction and the soft photography is warm, charming and feels contemporary.

 

[t-rex]

Their new layout for the "letters from the readers" page is truly awful. It's made to look like a website's comment page, I think? Instead of well-written, thought-out letters, they are doing what Elle and Allure do and grabs mostly simple half-***ed-sentences written online (on August's Nicole Kidman cover, Twitter's @vleskovic writes, "SHE DOESN'T EVEN LOOK LIKE HERSELF #SHAME" while @michelliewelli wrote, "SHE LOOKS FINE YOU BUNCH OF WEIRDOS") They also featured Marc Jacob's ridiculous comment ("When were you last given a cover of Vogue") reminding everyone that Jacobs missed the point completely.

Their Readers page is a mess, and it seems to have no room for responses that aren't short 'I like it/I don't like it' quips. I really hope they change it back... It's embarrassing, very dating and is trying very hard to be hip. The Readers page was perfect before; it allowed people to talk at length about nearly anything.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

^ Ugh, i second that, so annoying! The entrie art direction of the magazine is such a huge mistake, so unappealing!

anyone know what was the location of the photo shoot Angelina?

I heard this was shot in Cambodia.

 

[Benn98]

Their new layout for the "letters from the readers" page is truly awful. It's made to look like a website's comment page, I think? Instead of well-written, thought-out letters, they are doing what Elle and Allure do and grabs mostly simple half-***ed-sentences written online (on August's Nicole Kidman cover, Twitter's @vleskovic writes, "SHE DOESN'T EVEN LOOK LIKE HERSELF #SHAME" while @michelliewelli wrote, "SHE LOOKS FINE YOU BUNCH OF WEIRDOS") They also featured Marc Jacob's ridiculous comment ("When were you last given a cover of Vogue") reminding everyone that Jacobs missed the point completely.

Their Readers page is a mess, and it seems to have no room for responses that aren't short 'I like it/I don't like it' quips. I really hope they change it back... It's embarrassing, very dating and is trying very hard to be hip. The Readers page was perfect before; it allowed people to talk at length about nearly anything.

Tbqh, I never cared for the reader's letters, it always sounded so..'orchestrated', or rather, edited. I've not seen the issue on tjhe stands here, but I get what you mean. Again, this is where VF excels. Their letters are not only better formulated, but they mostly have a valid point. Shame on Vogue for posting Marc's juvenile response though.

 

[KateTheGreatest]

I heard this was shot in Cambodia.

If they were there, they could have used the scenery way more, it could be something more exciting. Instead we get this generic photoshoot that could be shot anywhere.

 

[liv4beauty]

From Shiloh to social media models, a magazine can put these young people on its pages because of the media hype about them and their associated family members, but that doesn't automatically make any of it interesting.

It's one thing for a free news site to be populated with daily stories about the PR-managed minutiae of their daily lives, and another for me to pay good money to look at printed shots of them in a monthly magazine, where the content has to be enough to sustain a shelf-life of several weeks. That entails making an effort. Even when there's no depth to the content, great production values in photography can go far, but there's certainly no excuse for shoddy photoshopping at this level.

By all means, as a major publication, be populist, and appeal to millions - but the least I expect from Vogue is a super-professional level of populism.

Amen!!!

 

[jeremydante]

boring. as. hell.


and the "FALL" text is far too large.