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Vanity Fair November 2022 : Lizzo by Campbell Addy

In my humble opinion, it used to be worth reading when Graydon was editor. It had just the right amount of history, glamour, and a mix of true crime/scandal/Hollywood/fashion. It's a completely different magazine under the new editor. It's a dull pamphlet now compared to what it once was.

I agree about this but it's still one of the few magazines worth reading. It shifted very heavilly towards politics in the past few years but then we didn't have insurrections and abortion rights beingg taken away so I guess somebody has to do the job.
 
Vanity Fair has always been very political, Graydon Carter was vehemently anti-Trump at a time when a lot of the current contributors were still messing about in high school. He was a man obsessed. Articles on the level of revealing the identity of Deep Throat? Not done under the current regime.

In a recent issue, they misspelled Michelle Yeoh's name in the credits/contributors section, I'm sure they'd be the first to tell us that such carelessness with names is not a great look.
 
Oh, yes. I remember all his last issues has Trump's name in every single cover, and in my opinion, since him (DT) the magazine business went this way. The Vogue Values thing was a response to that era. Before him, magazines were focus on their primary subjects.
 
I know they’re many singers who has her physique such as Ella Fitzgerald and Pearl Bailey but We really need to stop normalizing this.

Comments like this really make me roll my eyes. Like, you do realize the same thing could be said about LGBTQ+ cover stars or black cover stars, etc. I mean...it's a slippery slope. Why not get upset about the cultural, societal, agricultural, economic, etc. factors that contribute to obesity in the United States. I mean, I hate to break it to you but if a majority of a country is obese... it's already "normalized."
 
I mean, I hate to break it to you but if a majority of a country is obese... it's already "normalized."
1000% this. What they actually hate seeing normalized is accurate representation. They want the entertainment industry to be a perfect little bubble of skinny people forever and ever.
 
the cover is ok. I like the most it’s commanding pose than anything else. the boots, the hair… the slash of redness is effective though.

I like Lizzo and I don’t wish her to lose weight or to slim down and what I’m about to say has nothing to do with her - she feels good with herself, she’s confident, she’s beautiful!

normalising obesity is bad and also is extreme skinniness. they’re both unhealthy. both realities are damaging and dangerous and both people will be told by their doctors that their bodies are unwell, regardless on which side of the spectrum you’re in to consider which one is better looking than the other.
 
Lizzo and anyone of similar weight manage to offend people just by existing in their bodies. I am personally a fan of body neutrality. We all for better or for worse lol possess a corporeal form, we have a body that is of use to us to different extents (there are also disabilities that render our bodies more or less "functional"). We will all someday also die and our bodies will either be cremated or we will rot, be consumed by other forms. While we are still alive however we do not see our bodies as vessels that we are to take care of in a way we see fit to serve us as we see fit, we unfortunately exist in complex ways and are socialized to hate our bodies, to scrutinize ourselves, to strive towards this or that trend so plastic surgeons and beauty industry can profit off our insecurities. someone else's individual health is also really none of my business (and i am more concerned with structural issues surrounding accessing health services) and people do not have to be healthy to deserve to be seen, heard and photographed. and yes, we should address how poverty influences eating habits, how people are sold junk but that is a bigger more nuanced issue. Many people who are thin or within a normal BMI could be described as having disordered or nutritional enough eating habits. Many people we see on covers of magazines live "unhealthy" lives in other ways. Moreover we cannot really tell all that much on the state of someone's health just superficially looking at their body.
 
There are probably better images inside that would live up to the coverline of 'showstopper' and I'll be disappointed that we didn't get one on the front.
 
No print subscription copy yet, but I see the digital issue is already online via my library - the UK edition has 118 pgs.
  • The ads open with 4 pgs of Chanel, but then it's into jewellery and watches.
  • Gloria Steinem writes a 1 pg piece near the front of the issue about hope.
  • Rachel Zegler is the Vanities person.
  • There's a 1 pg mention of Steven Klein's new book (only one image of Madonna with a horse).
  • The Lizzo feature opens with an image of her wearing a spiky mask which I love. She doesn't shy away from talking about weight.
  • The Ron deSantis article enquires: "Can he lead the Trump cult of personality with no personality?"
  • Ezra Miller is "Hollywood's most troubled young star".
  • Annie Leibovitz shoots eight artists - Cindy Sherman, Simone Leigh, Faith Ringgold, Roni Horn, Mickalene Thomas, two Guerrilla Girls and Amy Sherald.
  • There's a look at the abortion ruling, talking with five women on the frontline, and more Gloria Steinem, reflecting on the first year of Ms. magazine.
  • This is followed by an article about reparations, based on the work of Audley Moore, and another article about women's diminished presence under the Taliban.
  • Julie Taymor answers the Proust Questionnaire
 
Everything Coming Up Lizzo, and Its About Time
Photo Campbell Addy
Stylist Patti Wilson
By Lisa Robinson
Subject Lizzo
Hair Shelby Swan
Makeup Alex Mayo


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We Need To Talk About Ezra
By Julie Miller
Subject Ezra Miler


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Forward Vision
Photo Annie Leibovitz
Stylist Maya Berera
By Thelma Golden
Subjects Cindy Sherman, Simone Leigh, Faith Ringgold, Roni Horn, Mickalene Thomas, Käthe Kollwitz, Frida Kahlo, Amy Sherald
Hair Brielle Johnson, Tav
Makeup Kumiko Hirose, Billie Gene


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The Queen Mother
Painter Charly Palmer
By A. Kristen Mullen
Subject Audley Moore


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Lizzo's would have been VI inside material under Franca. It's a nice story, the opening page it's so Avant Garde.
 
Leibovitz’s ed also appears in the january issue of Vogue Korea
 

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