LOVE LOVE LOVE everything !!! Every image, styling, layout = STUNNING JOB. Over and over again: every chinese and Asian edition really brings it: PURE HIGH FASHION like back in the golden days of Italian Vogue under Franca. THISSSSS this is the creative visuals I want to see when I think ''high fashion'':
- great models
- superb images
- awesome concepts
- editorials which either are super futuristic or fierce evil dark = FASHIONNN (not any of the non sense of normcore and lazy styling with pseudointellectual images of someone in a boring street with a fruit in their hands of someone looking 12 years old looool)
Didn’t think this issue was worthy initially. But it’s such a nice surprise to have a change of mind when the entire issue is seen. Gorgeous covershot, of course— and wouldn’t expect anything less from Maggie. What’s more impressive is the coverline of “The Neo Noir” is actually carried throughout the entire issue with its fashion stories and features. So nice for a Vogue that doesn’t insult its reader with everything thrown at them-- treating them like 2yos with the attention span of a fruit fly.
The coverstory “International Woman Of Mystery” is of course, cinematic noir: The silhouette shots still belong on the reject pile as far as I'm concerned. But the shots of her in the car and lying on the floor and sofa are Franca’s Vogue swoonworthy standards. “Dark Horse” has some stunning surreal shots that’s an odd to 1950s Chinese cinema. But along with the impressive shots, there are some clunkers. “Purple Is The New Black” is just too sparse, minimal and artsy Man Ray-is for my preference: Not enough fashion. But the best of them all is “China Noir”. My goodness; The just before the breaking dawn mood and slithering, shimmering sensuality is the stuff of fashion dreamweaving that's all too rare these days. Love.
Even the beauty and feature stories carry the “Neo Noir” concept. How unwaveringly confident and unrelentingly committed is that for a Vogue??? The only reprint is its inVogue Matt Healy “Next In Line” story. That’s easily forgiven— and forgotten, when the rest off the content is close to solid.
Get it for the supreme covershot. But stay for the highest of fashion noir stories. (@Kimy Jo will likely fashion-OD on this issue…)
Gorgeous editorial after another. This issue is CINEMATIC.
Kudos to them for producing such a strong issue like this.
They've been consistently doing great since September last year.
This is stunning, and from the look of it a really cohesive issue. Tang Wei is a great choice, too - she's an actress who embodies that old-school filmmaking vision so beautifully in her film work, but I love that she can carry it to photography too.
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