Vogue España January 2023 : Anok Yai by Renell Medrano

[vogue28]

 

[Kimy Jo]

Beautiful

 

[aracic]

Utterly boring. A beautiful model looking like a bored child wrapped in paper towels, forced to pose for their parent's camera. What a waste...

 

[iacoboi]

Anok already has an editorial with the same team out on the January '23 issue of Vogue UK. I wonder if the cover story of Vogue España will just be a reprint of that...

 

[tigerrouge]

Looking back through my library's digital copy, the Anok Yai edit in UK Vogue was shot by... Renell Medrano, styled by Stella Greenspan, although this particular shot above does not appear in that editorial. It doesn't seem to appear at the front of the issue either, in the Contents or Editor's Letter.

I've said before, there's now a certain look that's developed around 2020s Vogue imagery - a sort of bland, non-dimensional look, usually captured in a studio, and even when different colours are used, there's something very same-y about how those colours are used, in terms of the contrast between them. It's probably the product of the human eye, but in terms of effect, it has all the artistry of a robotic formula being followed on a colour wheel. OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

Block colour against some other block colour, lots of empty space, shabby or unremarkable backdrop, applaud and purchase!

I'm aware there are constraints - of all sorts - that can force people into using a studio, but look at all the decades of past work that shows a studio shoot can be the stuff of dreams.

 

[mikel]

Where’s the fire in her eyes?

 

[Kimy Jo]

Anok already has an editorial with the same team out on the January '23 issue of Vogue UK. I wonder if the cover story of Vogue España will just be a reprint of that...

I didnt even remember that
Says a lot about vogue current state

 

[SLFC]

How many more times are they going to do this to her, she's an amazing and stunning model, she doesnt deserve it, nobody deserves this treatment. How much more boring and depressing can you get?

 

[Deleted member 141523]

this should have been their December cover, that dress screams holidays.

 

[WAVES]

I’d be having that sad expression too if they forced me to wear a green trash bag.

 

[marsnoop2]

I've said before, there's now a certain look that's developed around 2020s Vogue imagery - a sort of bland, non-dimensional look, usually captured in a studio, and even when different colours are used, there's something very same-y about how those colours are used, in terms of the contrast between them. It's probably the product of the human eye, but in terms of effect, it has all the artistry of a robotic formula being followed on a colour wheel. OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

Block colour against some other block colour, lots of empty space, shabby or unremarkable backdrop, applaud and purchase!

I'm aware there are constraints - of all sorts - that can force people into using a studio, but look at all the decades of past work that shows a studio shoot can be the stuff of dreams.

you articulated this perfectly. The aesthetic is puzzling to me because despite the colors, it’s all just so dreary. Let’s up the saturation a bit and give into some brighter decadence as opposed to feeling melancholic.

I find myself just looking at older imagery in awe of what these magazines were able to create and now it’s quite depressing.

 

[iacoboi]

Looking back through my library's digital copy, the Anok Yai edit in UK Vogue was shot by... Renell Medrano, styled by Stella Greenspan, although this particular shot above does not appear in that editorial.

Just to follow-up on this matter, judging by these other pics of the Vogue Spain cover story, it was shot on the same set by the same team of the "Daydream believer" editorial that appears on Vogue UK, some shots are even the same. While "smaller" Vogue's recycling Vogue UK/US editorials is nothing new, having an issue of Vogue UK "spoil" the cover story of another Vogue seems to lower even more the standards of creative direction/management of these magazines...

 

[Zorka]

For the umptieth time Vogue España is collecting the crumbs from the UK Vogue's table. Anok Yai is a great model indeed and this cover image is definitely the best from the whole bunch, but the whole thing is just very pathetic and sad.

 

[Deleted member 141523]

It's funny that VS keeps producing 12 issues by year with this quality, while most of the editions started to make 10.

 

[woemwoem]

Anok's a stunning girl but not a great model. She relies too much on just her looks. Rarely brings any energy to her shots.

 

[Deleted member 141523]

A bob haircut with that dress would have been a dream, and I remember Anok with that cut in some old eds. VI under Farneti if I'm not wrong.

 

[Bertrando3]

Anok's a stunning girl but not a great model. She relies too much on just her looks. Rarely brings any energy to her shots.

Exactly, she is no Alec Wek. She's gorgeous but she doesn't use her body, EVER. She's just ''there'' like many other models nowadays anyways.
However she isn't the only one to blame. If you think about it now many many magazine editorials / photographers / brands look for that ''dazed'' look, that boring aesthetic where models don't pose and have that blank look in their eyes and are WORLDS AWAY from what supermodels used to do in the 80's and 90's posing skills wise and energy.
So in a way that girl is ''surfing the trend''. I hate models who don't pose and photographers and magazines who ask models not to do anything.
It's a waste of money and relying on their DNA doesn't help the models coz we think they don't know ''how to model''.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

The cover had potential but its way too depressing, the ed is even worse. No fire whatsoever, and fire doesnt even mean sumping around or smiling, just that slight sign of life is missing.

 

[oaklee91]

Exquisite colors!

 

[Hchloe]

Striking cover, love the colours.