US Vogue September 2021 by Ethan James Green

[KoV]

He’s only in 1 shot and he’s fully dressed, but still looks quite handsome.

 

[Zorka]

Here come Annie Leibovitz & Grace Coddington to save the day…

EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Photographer: Annie Leibovitz
Stylist: Grace Coddington & Michael Philouze
Hair: Julien d'Ys
Make-Up: Francelle Daly
Models: Natalia Vodianova, Karen Elson & Aldis Hodge



Outtake:



vogue.com; instagram.com/aldis_hodge

 

[THD96]

That editorial is gorgeous. Remind me of Vogue Us circa 2009. Grace need to be at Vogue full-time again.

 

[MagFan]

Her greens are unnatural and awful as always. Like kid with colouring book, she took one green colour and painted everything what supposed to be green

 

[KoV]

He’s only in 1 shot and he’s fully dressed, but still looks quite handsome.

Not me lying about him only being in one shot

 

[Ivanity86]

this is Vogue Us, this is a fashion editorial, these are models, and Grace coddington's touch is inimitable !!!!i'm tired of seeing photographers, not models, not talented fashion editors just because they have a different ethics, since Mario Testino Patrick and Bruce Weber were fired (Peter lindbergh is dead) and the abandonment of Grace Tonne and Phyllis everything went wrong , from 2018 to today not apart from some editorial by Annie, there is nothing beautiful. I want Meisel back, I want David Sims hopping models back, I want Steven Klein and Mikeal Jansson (who had done a great job in recent years) back I want Craig Mcdean and I want more Tim Walker !!! give me back Vogue US as we all know it

 

[vogue28]

Despite the pairing of Natalia Vodianova, Annie Leibovitz and Grace Coddington feeling like old-school American Vogue, I am unafraid to admit that story does absolutely nothing for me and I'm not even compelled to click a single thumbnail. Hailey Bieber by Stefan Ruiz last month done more for me.

 

[Ivanity86]

Her greens are unnatural and awful as always. Like kid with colouring book, she took one green colour and painted everything what supposed to be green

I prefer to see these photos of Annie Leibovitz than photos of Tyler Mitchell, Zoe ghertner and all that gang of photographers that ruined Vogue US

 

[Zorka]

this is Vogue Us, this is a fashion editorial, these are models, and Grace coddington's touch is inimitable !!!!i'm tired of seeing photographers, not models, not talented fashion editors just because they have a different ethics, since Mario Testino Patrick and Bruce Weber were fired (Peter lindbergh is dead) and the abandonment of Grace Tonne and Phyllis everything went wrong , from 2018 to today not apart from some editorial by Annie, there is nothing beautiful. I want Meisel back, I want David Sims hopping models back, I want Steven Klein and Mikeal Jansson (who had done a great job in recent years) back I want Craig Mcdean and I want more Tim Walker !!! give me back Vogue US as we all know it

E-x-a-c-t-l-y.

giphy.com

 

[Zorka]

Despite the pairing of Natalia Vodianova, Annie Leibovitz and Grace Coddington feeling like old-school American Vogue, I am unafraid to admit that story does absolutely nothing for me and I'm not even compelled to click a single thumbnail. Hailey Bieber by Stefan Ruiz last month done more for me.

You're probably right, my precious @vogue28 , but you know how they say:

"Nostalgia is a seductive liar."

And I am sooo effing nostalgic these days...

 

[Bertrando3]

this is Vogue Us, this is a fashion editorial, these are models, and Grace coddington's touch is inimitable !!!!i'm tired of seeing photographers, not models, not talented fashion editors just because they have a different ethics, since Mario Testino Patrick and Bruce Weber were fired (Peter lindbergh is dead) and the abandonment of Grace Tonne and Phyllis everything went wrong , from 2018 to today not apart from some editorial by Annie, there is nothing beautiful. I want Meisel back, I want David Sims hopping models back, I want Steven Klein and Mikeal Jansson (who had done a great job in recent years) back I want Craig Mcdean and I want more Tim Walker !!! give me back Vogue US as we all know it

My very thoughts exactly but I'm afraid this time has passed and unfortunately we will never see these pairings ever again. Sad but true. I actually wonder what happened between Anna and Steven Meisel.

 

[caioherrero]

Grace’s work at American Vogue it’s million times better than UK Vogue.

 

[MulletProof]

I think that story is a pleasant surprise, an attempt at old school Vogue and the colors are gorgeous.. it just lacks the fantasy element that used to be present in these type of stories, there was something a bit larger than life to them and the clothes had an equal role in how the whole narrative was elevated and made the viewer stare at each page and daydream for a bit. I guess they were asked to do 'natural' poses because it's hard to buy 'fairy' posing when you're not super young anymore, but, they could call Charlotte Rampling and take some notes, cause these two look genuinely tired.. they look like this super wealthy and extravagantly dressed lesbian couple who collect art and who invited an artist over for dinner but then the pandemic hit and are now stuck with him for weeks (he doesn't even have a change of clothes clearly), having to show him around their stupidly large estate to make this endurable even though they are, pic 4, mostly depressed and always wishing they had more.

In short, cute colors, obnoxious couple.

 

[caioherrero]

This is her first time in US Vogue since May 2020, right?

 

[Lola701]

It’s beautiful and has that Vogue old school vibe…
But, I’m not that nostalgic tbh…
If I want the magic of old Vogue, I can simply look at them. I think Vogue needs to make story telling again but with new photographers…

I prefer that over that « static portraits » trend but I’m tired of Leibovitz.

 

[cestmagique]

I wish it were more balanced between the three of them. The effects are a little ridiculous too, some things look saturated in green dye, the last shot is very blurry, etc. But I still like these ultra staged, painterly editorials. This one is more down to earth than a lot of past US Vogue editorials but it doesn't come across as dreadfully ordinary the way so much current Vogue stuff does.

 

[WinstonH20]

Looking at the thumbnails, I also felt a sense of nostalgia seeing Annie Leibovitz and Grace Coddington together again, but the results are underwhelming as expected thanks to Annie's tacky compositing and Photoshop filters.

You can tell Annie was an art student. She tries so hard to make all her pictures look like paintings. Not through masterful lighting and intelligent composition, but through excessive post production techniques like filters and multiple composites. It's all so obvious, WE GET IT ANNIE! I mean, in some of these the subjects are in sharp focus and so obviously pasted onto blurry overly filtered green backgrounds and in the last shot, everything's blurry. She probably thinks it's very Pictorialist, but as usual it's done in a tacky way that shows her questionable taste.

That said, I'd honestly rather see these kind of overproduced images than the snapshot styles of the new guard of photographers, which all tend to look like they were shot on iPhone against the same bed sheet background. I mean, even when these overproduced pictures aren't to my liking, at least I care enough to critique them. With most of the new guard, the most I can muster is a shrug of indifference.

 

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[aracic]

The issue is so sad... it's practically a compilation of globally reprinted content and then you have Annie. We've already seen it all posted here (except for the Prada editorial, which you can find in the UK thread), but if anyone has any desire at all to see those global editorials in magazine layout I'd be happy to post.