Yup, I concur. I really miss his sweeping epics with Grace, I can't even remember the last time he did a proper fashion editorial not associated with the MET. I guess that I've got to accept that that's now part of history, along with Michael Thompson's amazing work for W, Philip Lorca diCorcia's occasional/fashion stories and ads. and so on. Even Lindbergh doesn't seem to have done one of his grainy cinema stories recently. I don't really get a lot of fashion today, but then again maybe I'm not intellectual or "down" enough to understand Lotta Volkova getting work that looks like it was modified with 2006 era My Space effects published in major league Conde Nast publications.
Anywho, I really like the edits in this issue. Has the team changed, because since June the fashion features seem a lot better and more focused? Still, 10 years ago all of these stories would have each had at least 10 pages extra each (in 2001 some of the edits has 20 pages +
). I mean, seriously, how do you book one of the world's top photographers, the industry's most in-demand model and a popular young actor, send them to the desert somewhere and then end up publishing 8 pages of material! Surely that's just financially short-sighted? No idea what goes through AW's head sometimes.
