Vogue India October 2017 : 10th Anniversary Issue by Greg Swales & Mark Seliger

[JRH379]

For a 10th anniversary issue of a Vogue magazine, this is pretty disappointing. This looks very cheap and amateur. Vogue India editor-in-chief Priya Tanna either should resign or should change her team because month after month they've been producing covers that I don't feel like is at par with the international editions of Vogue. I mean, I'm all out for using local talent if that's what their readers want but the execution and art direction is very cheap.

 

[vogue28]

I saw this last week floating around Instagram, and thought the Photoshop on Natalia Vodianova was atrocious. How magazines find this level of retouching acceptable is unbelievable. Everyone else, however, looks perfectly OK.

 

[Nymphaea]

Indeed cheap looking, more in the range of Dynasty.

 

[JRH379]

I saw this last week floating around Instagram, and thought the Photoshop on Natalia Vodianova was atrocious. How magazines find this level of retouching acceptable is unbelievable. Everyone else, however, looks perfectly OK.

I totally agree. What a waste of Natalia's beauty. This doesn't look like ANY of her Vogue covers. This looks like it was snapped in a red carpet event.

I wish Conde nast India would have their own edition of Vanity Fair so they could stop turning Vogue India into a society magazine, when it's not.

 

[Benn98]

What's odd is that everyone's skin colour looks the shame . And it's a bit random to see Natalia here. Not sure why they must celebrate anniversary issues EVERY YEAR?

I once attended a talk which featured Angelica Cheung, and she had nothing but compliments and kind words for Priya. Praising how she manages to service her audience without resorting to Western ideals of fashion. That's all fair and well, but what's the point if she just about removed every ounce of Vogue's identity? Sorry to say this, but maybe India should never have gotten a Vogue to begin with. Because when this magazine doesn't look like VF, it looks like GQ or Cosmo.

 

[magsaddict]

I've always had respect for Vogue India's unique vision - their familiar covers using almost exclusively Indian celebs are just as signature as Vogue Japan's White backdrops or Vogue US's Leibovitz portrait covers. I think we all have an idea about what Vogue should look like, but the beauty of international editions is you get to see how different countries tailor and shape Vogue to suit their readers. That being said the addition of Natalia is quite the mystery, i know she recently appeared at a Vogue India event so i assume this is to tie in? I find it more questionable that they've included men on the cover when the issue is celebrating women? I think using only women on this cover would be a stronger statement, especially since men on their cover is not as uncommon as it is on other international Vogues.

 

[badgalcrush]

I dont understand what the hell Natalia is doing here...
Seriously I don't put the blame on her but why people always think that you need to put someone caucasian to sell ? I don't get it
You can clearly see it here : Natalia , Padma & Priyanka is "supposed" to be the cover appealing to internationale readers because these three are the most well known outside India ...
Would have been indeed even more striking without the men and Natalia. I don't mind the heavy retouching it's in the Indian culture so I'll take it

 

[Benn98]

Well, this is the same magazine who chose to cover Shamina Shaik in a swimsuit next to a fully clothed old geezer. GQ much? Plus they put men on the past anniversary covers so I'm not sjocked to see them personally. I'm more surpised to see Natalia. Can't join the dots here.

 

[MagFan]

They are Vogue India Women of the Year Awards winners and Vodianova got "Vogue Global Philanthropist and Style Icon of the Year" one, that's why she is on the cover

 

[Zorka]

COVER 1
Photographer: Greg Swales
Stylist: Anaita Shroff Adajania & Priyanka Kapadia
Hair: Mickey Contractor, Elton Fernandez & Raj Gupta
Make-Up: Mickey Contractor, Elton Fernandez & Arun Indulkar
Models/Celebrities: Mithali Raj, Shah Rukh Khan & Nita Ambani




COVER 2
Photographer: Greg Swales
Stylist: Anaita Shroff Adajania
Hair: Jerome Cultrera, Rajeev Gogoi & Yianni Tsapatori
Make-Up: Andréa Tiller, Paresh Kalgutkar & Elton Fernandez
Models/Celebrities: Twinkle Khanna, Sonam Kapoor, Anushka Sharma & Karan Johar




COVER 3
Photographer: Mark Seliger
Stylist: Anaita Shroff Adajania
Hair: Bok-Hee & Peter Gray
Make-Up: Nick Barose & Kabuki
Models/Celebrities: Padma Lakshmi, Priyanka Chopra & Natalia Vodianova



Vogue India Digital Edition

 

[Zorka]

... GIVE IN STYLE
Photographer: Mark Seliger
Stylist: Anaita Shroff Adajania
Hair: Peter Gray
Make-Up: Kabuki
Model: Natalia Vodianova



Vogue India Digital Edition

 

[Zorka]

... ARE FOREVER IN FASHION
Photographer: Signe Vilstrup
Stylist: Ria Kamat
Hair: Yianni Tsapatori
Make-Up: Elton Fernandez
Model/Celebrity: Sonam Kapoor



Vogue India Digital Edition

 

[Zorka]

... RUN THE WORLD
Photographer: Mark Seliger
Stylist: Anaita Shroff Adajania
Hair: Bok-Hee
Make-Up: Nick Barose
Model/Celebrity: Priyanka Chopra



Vogue India Digital Edition

 

[MON]

Priyanka looks good! Let her be in US Vogue please!

Natalia's ed looks like a catalogue

 

[Zorka]

... EMBRACE THE FABRIC OF INDIA
Photographer: Kristian Schuller
Stylist: Anaita Shroff Adajania & Priyanka Kapadia
Hair: Yianni Tsapatori
Make-Up: Elton Fernandez
Models: Ravyanshi Mehta & Pritika Swarup



Vogue India Digital Edition

 

[Zorka]

... ARE FEARLESS
Photographer: Greg Swales
Stylist: Anaita Shroff Adajania
Hair: Jerome Cultrera
Make-Up: Andréa Tiller
Model/Celebrity: Anushka Sharma



Vogue India Digital Edition

 

[Zorka]

... CELEBRATE THEIR DIFFERENCES
Photographer: Ruven Afanador
Stylist: Anaita Shroff Adajania
Hair: Italo Gregorio
Make-Up: Joanne Gair
Models: Jazzelle, Bruna Tenório, Duckie Thot, Ros Georgiu, Rachel Trachtenburg, Lisa Verberght, Molly Constable, Pamela Ramos, Diana Silvers, Laura James, Rasika Navare, Sarita Choudhury, Coco, Breezy, Arpana Rayamajhi &Leyna Bloom



Vogue India Digital Edition

 

[JRH379]

What's odd is that everyone's skin colour looks the shame . And it's a bit random to see Natalia here. Not sure why they must celebrate anniversary issues EVERY YEAR?

I once attended a talk which featured Angelica Cheung, and she had nothing but compliments and kind words for Priya. Praising how she manages to service her audience without resorting to Western ideals of fashion. That's all fair and well, but what's the point if she just about removed every ounce of Vogue's identity? Sorry to say this, but maybe India should never have gotten a Vogue to begin with. Because when this magazine doesn't look like VF, it looks like GQ or Cosmo.

OMG where can I watch that talk? What talk is that? I need to watch it.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

the covers look odd, subjects are disconnected but the eds are nice

 

[liaa]

Natalia doesn't deserve to be here, since when is she Indian or has a link with this country?
Anyways, i like Sonam Kapoor's pictures.