Vogue France May 2025 : Adriana Lima, Joan Smalls & Lara Stone by Mario Sorrenti

[YohjiAddict]

Pheobe’s daughter reminds me of the late French actress Pascale Ogier, so I’m instantly sold on the ed. I don’t know if her future work will be as good though…

The main editorial is so inconsistent, there are a few shots that have life in them, the closeups for example, but it feels very superficial. The pictures chosen for the covers are hideous with that angle that wouldn’t flatter anyone, she was aiming for that raw unapologetic Carine vibe and landed straight into the banal and forgettable! At least she had the good taste to keep the lingerie shots for the foldout, those Balenciaga looks are like something fished out of a garage bin!

 

[Deleted member 116957]

This girl really thinks she's all that, doesn't she? Y'all ain't gonna gaslight me that she's half-decent, let alone good. Using 28359 different fonts, for example, is BAD art direction... not good.


Vogue France Digital Edition

 

[fenty]

These covers are blasphemous

 

[90sfan]

Now Mario Sorrenti is trying to do Jurgen Teller hahhahha. Sorrenti is the worst, I swear. Everything he does looks like a bad Macy’s catalogue.

 

[tigerrouge]

Looking through my library's digital copy - with the Lara cover - it's showing as 200 pages, although the actual page count seems to be 195 pages. The other two main covers seem to follow straight after the cover page, as if they're included as part of a gatefold ad, but the underwear shots don't appear until you get to the main editorial section.

The Watch editorial with Romeo Beckham and Maya Wigram, I don't hate it, but thanks to reading UK Bazaar, Tatler etc, I see a lot of good editorials of this sort. Vogue's watch / jewellery shoots in general tend to be very flat and uninspiring, so I'd say this one shows more effort than is standard for any Vogue edition. Maya is good, but Romeo doesn't look convincing in either of the shoots that he's in - but did you expect him to? You can only be disappointed if you had hope to begin with.

There are a lot of other features in the issue, about architecture, actors, plus a selection of moments from the Cannes red carpet over the years, and the usual visual references where an old pic of Anja Rubik will pop up in the beauty/lifestyle section etc.

I want to like it more than I do, but I certainly like it more than most of the other Euro editions (German, Italian etc).

If I could be assured of getting Lara's cover, I'd order it online, but when there's multiple covers on offer, I can't be bothered with the fuss of trying to specify which one I'd prefer to receive, so I skip them completely.

 

[MModa]

Looking through my library's digital copy - with the Lara cover - it's showing as 200 pages, although the actual page count seems to be 195 pages. The other two main covers seem to follow straight after the cover page, as if they're included as part of a gatefold ad, but the underwear shots don't appear until you get to the main editorial section.

The Watch editorial with Romeo Beckham and Maya Wigram, I don't hate it, but thanks to reading UK Bazaar, Tatler etc, I see a lot of good editorials of this sort. Vogue's watch / jewellery shoots in general tend to be very flat and uninspiring, so I'd say this one shows more effort than is standard for any Vogue edition. Maya is good, but Romeo doesn't look convincing in either of the shoots that he's in - but did you expect him to? You can only be disappointed if you had hope to begin with.

There are a lot of other features in the issue, about architecture, actors, plus a selection of moments from the Cannes red carpet over the years, and the usual visual references where an old pic of Anja Rubik will pop up in the beauty/lifestyle section etc.

I want to like it more than I do, but I certainly like it more than most of the other Euro editions (German, Italian etc).

If I could be assured of getting Lara's cover, I'd order it online, but when there's multiple covers on offer, I can't be bothered with the fuss of trying to specify which one I'd prefer to receive, so I skip them completely.

I also do not like the fuss of requesting a specific cover but then I love receiving what I wanted to see.

 

[MyNameIs]

I was excited when I saw the title, even if I never liked the three of them, but the result is, once again, tragic.

 

[Simera]

A group cover with those 6 would have been more epic than what we actually got…

 

[MModa]

A group cover with those 6 would have been more epic than what we actually got…

Model group covers have become passé.

 

[90sfan]

This is a waste. Of time, of talents, of money, of location.
It’s annoying.
It’s trash.

Surprised?!? It was shot by Mario Sorrenti, and styled ny Alistair Mckimm. It doesn’t get more mediocre than that. Mediocre Squared ;-)

 

[Royal-Galliano]

The font just makes me think of the band Travis.

udiscovermusic

my favorite! <3

for some strange reason, the font works for the music artwork even after quarter of a century, and it doesn't feel dated. here though, it looks forced and clueless. maybe i just miss carine's VP. some of the covers were plastered with taglines and i didn't hate it!

 

[Royal-Galliano]

Model group covers have become passé.

there are groups and there are groups. it's down to cast, styling, poses, layout, the overall energy. some of the best covers in my book feature two or three people. it's about ingenious selection of coverstars, not about the mission impossible to please everyone, all the potential target groups, races, ages, what have you.


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[Deleted member 116957]

my favorite! <3

for some strange reason, the font works for the music artwork even after quarter of a century, and it doesn't feel dated. here though, it looks forced and clueless. maybe i just miss carine's VP. some of the covers were plastered with taglines and i didn't hate it!

I agree, it works with Travis... but not this garbage magazine lol.

 

[MModa]

there are groups and there are groups. it's down to cast, styling, poses, layout, the overall energy. some of the best covers in my book feature two or three people. it's about ingenious selection of coverstars, not about the mission impossible to please everyone, all the potential target groups, races, ages, what have you.

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I agree with you. I loved covers featuring two or more models. It is just my observation that it is not a popular thing anymore.

 

[Deleted member 116957]

@MModa It's not like group covers were really a "common" thing until like the mid-2000s... I guess? I dunno. They used to be very rare, look at fashion magazines from the 40s onwards. Most were always single models. Maybe now and then, but they definitely were never common... they used to be pretty "special"

 

[Scotty]

I like the editorial but the covers are kind of awful. Adriana looks amazing. They were clowning her last year but she bounced back!!

 

[caioherrero]

Model group covers have become passé

Le Monde did an amazing Group cover this year….

 

[MModa]

Le Monde did an amazing Group cover this year….

Indeed, I forgot about it.

 

[tigerrouge]

I am intrigued about the June-July cover, if they're going to hark back to how those summer covers used to be.

It can't be worse than the June-July 2024 cover with Gigi Hadid for Vogue World / the Olympics, pretending to do gymnastics in a darkened room.

 

[MModa]

I am intrigued about the June-July cover, if they're going to hark back to how those summer covers used to be.

It can't be worse than the June-July 2024 cover with Gigi Hadid for Vogue World / the Olympics, pretending to do gymnastics in a darkened room.

Unless they move the summer cover to August. Last year, I liked the August beach cover with Jenner even though I am not her fan.