Vanity Fair December 2021/January 2022 : Jennifer Lawrence by Lachlan Bailey

[Deleted member 1957]

The cover is a little crowded but i still love the colours love the editorial

 

[Ivanity86]

the cover is adorable, maybe not suitable for a Christmas cover but that's okay, I like it, you love the colors, the style, remember the years of Graydon Carter, I haven't bought Vanity Fair for some time but for this month I will make an exception !!

 

[PowerDroid]

There is something cheap about Lachlan's photography, I can't quite put my finger on it. It might be the straight man's sexualization of the female body but it's recurrent in all of his images. Maybe it's the fake 1970s photo filter pushed to the limit and the unnatural color saturation. It's all so sugar coated, like a friggin' candy apple.

 

[oaklee91]

What an amazing issue!! She looks radiant and I can’t wait to see her and her quick wit everywhere again.

 

[Dion Chan]

was this shot before her pregnancy? Beautiful editorial, cover meh they mad her like every other generic white model

 

[MulletProof]

I’m in the minority here, I think she looks amazing and these 60s-inspired stories hardly go wrong.. just the best eye makeup of all time .. you can tell it’s a 2021 production by the cake-y/youtube tutorial result in the shot with the orange coat, but.. willing to overlook that can she looks great.

 

[KoV]

I think one of Jennifer's first jobs was modeling for Abercrombie & Fitch as a teen. This shoot reminds me of that brand's aesthetic, which suits her perfectly. She was really *everywhere* for the better part of a decade, so while stepping back and out of the spotlight at the height of her career was perhaps seen as a bold and unconventional move, it's made me excited to see her back on a magazine and back onscreen again. And it gave her an enigmatic quality the biggest stars have, which she really lacked before.

 

[Frederic01]

There is something cheap about Lachlan's photography, I can't quite put my finger on it. It might be the straight man's sexualization of the female body but it's recurrent in all of his images. Maybe it's the fake 1970s photo filter pushed to the limit and the unnatural color saturation. It's all so sugar coated, like a friggin' candy apple.

Agreed. The styling and make-up/hair do not help. If anything it makes it look even more cheap, and reminds me of those horrendous Guess by Marciano ads, with too much fake-tan, yellow-blonde hair, and heavy make-up.

Also it just me or does this look like a low-rent Mario Testino shoot from about five years ago?

 

[vogue28]

Couldn't resist getting myself a copy of this earlier today, just sat there all pretty, glossy and utterly immaculate on the shelf in WHSmith. I knew I would fall even more in love with the cover seeing it in person! It's gorgeous, Lachlan Bailey's photography is heavenly and Jennifer's never looked better.

 

[tigerrouge]

In this month's Vanity Fair, there's another example of what I'll politely call the magazine's "muddled messages", where an article starts out discussing the recent murder of British woman Sarah Everard and how terrible the entire situation was, but by the third page, the article then becomes dismissive of the murder by starting to talk about the 'prevailing emphasis on the safety of white, cisgender, middle-class women' and mentioning TERFs, as if there's a list of buzzwords to tick off when writing this article, and not enough time to fit them all in - not in any way that makes sense.

The core message in Britain from that brutal murder is that if even the supposedly privileged 'white, cisgender, middle-class women' are enjoying the privilege of being murdered and then blamed for not preventing their own murder, then we're all f*cked. All of us.

 

[Benn98]

.... but by the third page, the article then becomes dismissive of the murder by starting to talk about the 'prevailing emphasis on the safety of white, cisgender, middle-class women'....

This is sickening. Who is the author?
There is already a lot of unhappiness over the very slow response from the Home Office (in particular Priti Patel) to commission an inquiry into the case. And then you read something like this.

And anyway, this article should've been published after the inquiry to factor in their findings as well.

 

[tigerrouge]

I'm not familiar with the writer - Melissa Jeltsen.

I think reading about a British case through an American lens... there are a lot of superficial points in common between the two countries which can lead people to think comparisons between any British and American experience can be easily made, when that might not always be the case. And depending on the number of points the writer wants to touch upon, it might be difficult to explore or compare the two situations in such a relatively short-ish piece. If certain points are crammed in, it can give rise to the feeling the article is using the murder as a convenient springboard for point-scoring, rather than keeping the focus on the woman at the centre of the situation, and conveying how Sarah's death feels like a watershed of sorts in Britain.

 

[KoV]

Highlight of the issue is the feature on Lucas Bravo….

 

[axiomatic]

There's a pretty "dishy" profile of Adam McKay also

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/11/who-the-f*ck-cares-about-adam-mckay