US Vogue September 2020 by Jordan Casteel & Kerry James Marshall

[VogueGirl8910]

What a bad paiting, sadly than the recent days US Vogue release a bunch of boring covers.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

So I posted this cover on my IG stories with a caption, "Guess who's not buying this year's September issue? Me."

And when I checked the people who viewed it, there goes the rumored artist who illustrated it. Humiliating!


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Must have been awkward

 

[dfl-001]

I think the artist is Jordan Casteel.

I love Jordan's stylized work, but I don't love that cover.
Look at her paintings, they are brilliant!
But, I don't love US Vogue either.
And I get that people say editors have to be creative and expand due to declining sales.
But in my opinion, those sales declined because editors abandoned their core readers.
Not because readers abandoned them!.
Vogue US is heading in the same direction. The sooner people acknowledge Anna is failing the better.
That's the very worse thing Anna did; She made me not give a damn. I look at this magazine and I just don't care.
US Vogue could completely fold and I wouldn't miss it at all.

 

[Lola701]

I hope this cover situation is a multi-cover thing.
I wanted Naomi because it made sense and because it could have been an opportunity for her to set the record straight on her elephant in the room (even if I don’t get why she should be cancelled based on assumptions. Is she prosecuted? NO!).

I’m not a fan of this cover but at the same time, Anna is at a time when she cannot do right in a lot of people’s eyes. People loved Edward landscapes but will hate on this.
For me the hate is equal for both covers.

Hope shouldn’t just be for the whole world but also for the industry to do better. I would rather have a black model on the cover, as an OG than this drawing....

But I guess It’s wait and see now...

 

[Ivanity86]

Disappointed by this cover, I don't dare to imagine the editorials inside with photographers lacking in personality, I would prefer a thousand times over the jumping models of David Sims, the gray backgrounds of Demarchelier, the stories of Peter Lindbergh (RIP) and the glamorous chic of Mario Testino!!!!!

 

[PowerDroid]

I love this. I find it refreshing for a Vogue US cover.

The September issue of Vogue US has to be wrapped in mid June so this issue has been put together at the height of the Covid 19 infection rate in the US.
I can't even imagine the struggles that the team at Vogue had to go through to get the issue ready so I am fine with this, considering the circumstances.

 

[YohjiAddict]

Is the issue truly wrapped mid-June? I remember for September 2013 they released a Couture edit with Edie Campbell. The couture season took place at the start of July and it seemed like quite the production.

Personally I would prefer they delayed the release as much as possible and have an acceptable issue with decent content.

The other day I actually found myself googling "Caroline Trentini by David Sims"...and I sighed a couple times. How times change, for the worse mainly.

 

[StylishCynic]

Looks like there will be more than one cover!

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[PowerDroid]

Is the issue truly wrapped mid-June? I remember for September 2013 they released a Couture edit with Edie Campbell. The couture season took place at the start of July and it seemed like quite the production.

Personally I would prefer they delayed the release as much as possible and have an acceptable issue with decent content.

The other day I actually found myself googling "Caroline Trentini by David Sims"...and I sighed a couple times. How times change, for the worse mainly.

It does. Maybe deadlines are stretched a little during these times of uncertainty but production wise the September issue used to be wrapped by mid June. Same for Bazaar US. Even after receiving the retouched finals images there's still plenty to do before the issue is sent to the printers.

Magazines are struggling reconciling budgets, imagine if Vogue US had to delay the issue. It would be a disaster for the advertising department. It's not like an independent magazine, it a huge American corporation. If the issue is not out on time people gets fired.

The issue is not even out, let's see what they were able to put together.

 

[PowerDroid]

Looks like there will be more than one cover!
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This looks great! What a beautiful way to promote artists' work.

 

[MulletProof]

The other day I actually found myself googling "Caroline Trentini by David Sims"...and I sighed a couple times. How times change, for the worse mainly.

oh my haha, remember when that was the absolute, most vomitable nightmare that would trigger 10 pages of Trentini bashing every month?. If that's a mark, I'm not sure things have gotten particularly worse!

Up until that second cover, I was still giving the first one the benefit of the doubt, it looks fake to me lol.. but I guess.. it is official?. Would've made a good April 2020 cover.. I don't even know now. The US has taken such a surreal turn in how a hard year for a global population is interpreted and its pop culture communicates it well I guess...

 

[aracic]

What a beautiful way to promote artists' work.

It's Vogue, not American Art Review. I tried getting into this whole illustrated thing, but no. I don't care that there's a pandemic - there's also one in France but you don't see Alt pulling this sort of cr*p. And even if we absolutely had to endure yet another illustrated cover, September's not the time. Second cover looks aesthetically more pleasing, but I still hate it on principle. What a sad, sad year for fashion (magazines).

Lana Del Rey once said, ''Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it'' - well, I don't anymore.

 

[Fiercification]

It would seem that's actually Aurora's rooftop/balcony, though, since it's on her instagram from over a year ago. I don't think it's a staged/inauthentic setting. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I'd question whether it's fair to call this painting of Aurora, in her own home/neighborhood, a trite depiction of Black culture. The artist, if I've ID'd correctly and it's Jordan Casteel, is a Black woman known for her portraits of Black New Yorkers.

I'm not familiar with this artist's work, so thank you for explaining. The backdrop does make sense in this case and doesn't rub the wrong way as it did a bit when I assumed someone at the mag conceptualised it.

The second cover looks better to me at any rate. Very intriguing, even if (again) I'm not at all familiar with who the woman could be.

 

[KoV]

I’m 99% sure the second cover painting is by Kerry James Marshall.

 

[Benn98]

Wow, the second cover looks amazing. I'd hang that in my living room! Love the dynamic visuals.

I agree with Mulletproof, an art issue would be a better idea for a more quiet month. Not September or March. I know the media fell over themselves over how 'cool' and 'progressive' Farneti's #nophotoshoot issue was, but this art cover comes after an endless stream of art covers from global Vogues we've seen over the past 3 months. I can't believe Anna thought it would be innovative? Huge misstep.

 

[Rigida]

Looks like there will be more than one cover!
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It looks so thin though i suspect its only going to be around 200 pages? If we’re lucky we’d probably get around 300 pages?

 

[KoV]

Yeah it looks like it’s 300 pages at best. Gucci ad on the back cover. I guess we should’ve known advertisers are holding back on print, especially in the US and without a major star on the cover.

I hope Kadir Nelson did a cover. Though I’d be very happy with Kerry James Marshall’s. Not sure who it is in the painting, though. Tracy Reese?

 

[gatocosmico]

Times are changing, but this sudden wake of black power is hypocrite from a magazine who took almost 70 years to put a black women on the cover, even they've tried to be diverse and hype, this is a proof that magazine business is dying and sadly what they should have done 40 years ago to promote diversity and culture now is seen as another try to sell magazines.

 

[MON]

I hate the fact that most of the 2020 covers are so bizarre that I'm tempted to collect them.

 

[JPineapple]

Second cover is million times better