US Vogue September 2011 : Kate Moss by Mario Testino

[aracic]

US Vogue September 2011

At Ease

Photographer: David Sims
Styling: Marie-Amelie Sauve
Hair: Guido Palau
Makeup: Diane Kendal
Model: Jourdan Dunn


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[KoV]

Casting Karlie and styling her that way in “Go East” is pretty cringe, in retrospect.

 

[VogueGirl8910]

Request by @Dior Dream

"Soldiering On: Invincible"
Models: Ymre Stiekema & Hilary Rhoda
Photographer: Steven Meisel
Fashion Editor: Marie-Amélie Sauvé
Hair: Guido Palau
Makeup: Pat McGrath
Set Designer: Mary Howard


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[Phuel]

Casting Karlie and styling her that way in “Go East” is pretty cringe, in retrospect.

I don’t see it as such at all.

These self-segregated, anti-multicultural and just selfish days would have most convinced that a White woman assimilating into multi-Asian culture is nothing but wrong. However, it’s exactly her immersing and they sharing a culture together. It’s not one of the issue’s better stories— that would be Meisel’s and M&M’s, but it’s joyful and what defines American Vogue with the imagery of immersive travel to far-off lands and discovering rich cultures since Vreeland’s days. Too bad people have been convinced that the concept of all people sharing cultures together is wrong nowadays.

 

[dior_couture1245]

Casting Karlie and styling her that way in “Go East” is pretty cringe, in retrospect.

Cringe only because she's such a bad model. LOL

I really, really never liked her. She's so goofy looking to me. Her success has been and always will remain an absolute mystery to me.

 

[YohjiAddict]

^That long, long face of hers plus the pinched-in features...that shot with the martial artists is laugh out loud terrible.

I remembered M&M's ed as so much better than it actually is, the color manipulation is just too much and Vodianova is kind of boring. I do appreciate the cinematic styling and locations.

Meisel's ed is my favorite, the casting is flawless and the clinical mood emphasizes the garments.

I don't think you get any more cringe than the Fashion Night Out advert with the Glee cast...

 

[Phuel]

^^^ Her pinched features are actually why she works for this story for me. In that, if you look back at the antiquity of Asian standards of beauty— in particular from Japan/Korea/China, Karlie’s “pinched” features are actually what was highly-reverred. Add to that her long lean body and she is this surreal, taken-to-the-max of antiquity beauty (…even in the Rei Kawakobo-wannabe wig) standard of many Asian cultures. I appreciate when casting a model/models for a story was once based on what she/they could bring to a very specific story— and casting an Asian model really defeats the entire point of an White American discovering Asia; it’s why Veruschka remains the reigning imagery of exotic, expensive and surreal Vogue stories: She blends so seamlessly into her locale while remaining distinctively not a native. That’s the power of fashion presentation.