Vogue France September 2025 : Jeanne Cadieu by Steven Meisel & Ella McCutheon by Karim Sadli

[mikel]

Well, well, Meisel was lured out of the studio.

Love it! Especially the shot where she’s walking the dog.

 

[Lola701]

When Meisel shot and it was styled by MAS, it looked like Vogue France/Paris. This ed is pure VI or W by Edward.
I love Sofia, I love Meisel, I love Chanel and Karl but that story is rather boring….Even more considering that Karl did the archives thing years ago with Daria.
Why is Jeanne styled like an old lady?

 

[likeahurricane]

Well, well, Meisel was lured out of the studio.

We have no evidence of that, maybe his assistant was reporting back 🤭

 

[aracic]

Ughhh not they made the best cover the subscribers-only one lmaoo.

be f*cking for real!!! this just ruined my day lmao

Guess I'll have to hunt this down through eBay instead of the newsstand... But it's a must-have, of course! All sorts of glamorous, so reminiscent of his work circa 1992, the beautiful couture stories in particular. I'm obsessed! Hopefully there's more inside.

 

[MModa]

I love both covers but the one with Ella is my absolute favorite. I am definitely looking forward to seeing how the fashion editorials flow inside of the magazine because that makes a difference. I am also sure the issue is full of other visual treats as well. A must-have issue for me ❤️

 

[BalkaniStaCouture]

Vogue France September “ Subscribers Edition” 2025 Cover

Photographer: Steven Meisel
Styling: Alastair Mckimm
Hair: Guido Palau
Makeup: Pat McGrath
Model: Jeanne Cadieu
(@alastairmckimm)

 

[vogue22]

I never thought Steven Meisel, of all people, would one day be putting out his best work for French Vogue.

 

[justaguy]

There’s a hint of Helmut Newton in Meisel’s story that I’m loving so much!

 

[ivano]

So many young models were dressed like someone older, from another time or rich looking in his VI cover stories. October 2013 it's the one that comes to my mind. Under Meisel lens that combo type looks great. Jeanne also looks here like Julia Nobis. That was my thought after seeing the cover for the first time. This is so Sozzani's VI. Takes me back to Linda's story from 2008 and McMenamy's January 1995 issue.

 

[fenty]

YESSS THE MEISEL EDITORIAL IS FAB

 

[likeahurricane]

So many young models were dressed like someone older, from another time or rich looking in his VI cover stories.

And it's not even a Meisel/VI thing. What models from the 1950s to the 1990s looked their age? They were always styled to look older, except in eras where youthfulness was allowed like the mid-late 60s or the mid-90s. That type of styling fell a bit out of favor into the 2000s, I think.

 

[Summer Day]

I’m getting Geraldine Chaplin with this editorial

 

[zacatecas570]

Vogue France September “ Subscribers Edition” 2025 Cover
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Photographer: Steven Meisel
Styling: Alastair Mckimm
Hair: Guido Palau
Makeup: Pat McGrath
Model: Jeanne Cadieu
(@alastairmckimm)
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This would have made a BEAUTIFUL cover

 

[kasper!]

#13 Go-see by Juergen Teller....and it was almost 26 years ago

 

[Bertrando3]

NOWWWWW we're talking!! Meisel's editorial is crazy good old school Meiselesque under Franca's magic. SUPERB!

 

[Melancholybaby]

Bar is low that we are finding these impressive. Meisel’s feels extremely dated even if well shot.

Definitely. The ingredients are all there (Alastair notwithstanding) and the result is ok, I guess, but there's something dusty and dated about it that puts me off. Far from his Vogue Italia best.

 

[Ivancica]

Happy for Jeanne (disappointed it's only subscribers' cover).

 

[ellearchivist]

Meisel shooting outside in daylight! He’s not a vampire after all!!! The cover is also stunning! Long live Vogue France!!!

 

[oaklee91]

Sensual without trying to be. That neck!

 

[tigerrouge]

Has no-one in this thread looked at a magazine that was published during what was considered the real golden age for them? The ones that Meisel would have looked through when he was young?

Because magazines then were advertising clothes for adult women. Sure, the models wearing the clothes were younger than the intended audience - because being young, they had the body shape to make the clothes look their best - but the people making the purchases were not the same as the people modelling the clothes.

And people entered into an adult life at a much earlier age, getting married, taking on responsibilities. War and post-war periods forced everyone to go through some terrible things, to put it lightly. 'Teenagers' were young men who were sent to war, and if they were lucky, they came back.

The (marketing) concept of the teenager only came along later, and ever since then, fashion advertising has shifted its focus to target younger people (for reasons), so now we've come to expect models wearing clothes appropriate to the age of the model, or else it looks 'wrong', and the ideal state of existence is to be an overgrown eternal teenager with cartoon characters all over your clothes.

Anything else is 'old lady'.

And there's a misguided notion that arises, when younger people are the target of so many forms of marketing.

It's easy for a younger person to think, because companies are centering them, making them the focus of their efforts, that they must be really important - and by extension, their thoughts and opinions about the world must also be really important - when no, you're being so intensely targeted because advertisers think you're stupid, easily influenced and can be continually rinsed for your money.

When I was a teenager, I had no money to spend on the stuff I saw in magazines. At this age, now I can, but magazines don't want to sell me anything.

Fashion advertisers don't want people to progress in life to be adults, they want them to remain 'young' in mind and body, because young minds can be made to do anything.