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Vogue Italia April 2016 by Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh & Bruce Weber

Do Italians actually care about Gigi?

We can ask the same about the French, the Dutch, the Chinese etc. She's a celebrity, a model slash celebrity with the emphasis on the latter, so most casual readers may not care for her, but know her from entertainment news or at least heard of her.

I'm far from a Gigi stan but I 100% understand why she is snatching covers left and right. If she didn't sell she would not be everywhere.
 
None of this sparked my interest. Meh.
 
What is Gigi doing in this ed? She is comepletely out of place.
 
Is this one of those VI issues where they pack it with non-white models, but for the next couple years will use almost only white models?
 
Is it just me or Gigi didn't upload the cover in her Instagram (like her other covers)
 
Is this one of those VI issues where they pack it with non-white models, but for the next couple years will use almost only white models?

I feel this issue is more or less like "The China Issue" last year.
 
Gigi does look extremely out of place in this issue. But with that said, her images are some of my favorites.
 
Is this one of those VI issues where they pack it with non-white models, but for the next couple years will use almost only white models?

They're actually not that bad anymore with model casting throughout their edits. The couture supplement for the last three seasons featured diverse lineups. Covers are still a different issue though.
I am however impressed that they didn't label this 'the Middle Eastern' issue. I know it's just semantics, but the unsuspecting buyer would probably get this purely because of the images, not because of the ethnicity of the models.
 
What is Gigi doing in this ed? She is comepletely out of place.

I guess she just saw light and entered :P

Seriously, I love Demarchelier's edit, really fabulous. A picture of Liya would have been enough for the cover. Lindhberg's work is amazing as well.
 
^ or they know nobody's going to buy magazines anymore so they can just hire her and she'll get their name out on instagram
 
Such a gorgeous issue :heart:.. I don't care for what Vogue Italia does anymore and it's been many years since that but their Sarah Moon/Couture by Roversi stories last month made it seem like things started to pick up a little and this seems very much like it, kind of just missing Deborah Turbeville, and of course there's the mandatory mega saturated story by Hiett, because one guesses Aldridge didn't call back this month.. but I get over that when Peter Lindbergh's story is so pretty, so old school and so Max Vadukul circa Yohji Yamamoto.. and that is really the best I've seen from Patrick Demarchelier in a loooong time, the mood, textures, lighting, the clothes, all of the models (Gigi included), the result is beautiful.. and, does Liya age? :lol:.. how can she look exactly the same as she did 15 years ago (YSL Rive Gauche campaign..), crazy!.

I don't like to clutter my space with magazines (especially Vogues..) but I guess I'll have to give this a chance and pick it up if hopefully they have the Peter Lindbergh cover on my nearby store (they'll probably have the silly one by Bruce Weber).

By the way, I'm actually quite surprised Bruce delivered.. not really a bad story, but definitely the weakest here, he's one of my favorite photographers and possibly the only one (out of the big ones) that's constantly trying to stay true to himself and often making things that still feel as sincere as his early work... his story is quite puzzling especially when he made such a nice tribute to Goa in the past playing with similar elements (Vogue Paris June/July 2005). He's so good at creating strong narratives with an inmense variety of sceneries, people, activities, it often unfolds like a tale or the memory of a good dinner with friends from all walks of life (probably his biggest talent imo).. and here it just looks like he selected stuff from his photo stream, some test shoots he did with some actor in New York, next to a couple of models laughing backstage during fashion week, an outtake of Ajak for a story Porter didn't want, and he was done with his assignment. It's not terrible, but for Bruce maybe it is.
 
Beautiful photos from all three main photogs featured in this issue. And I also really like Emma
Summerton's editorial with Bhumika Arora. Never heard of her but she's serving up some great
face!
 
I'm starting to soften up with the Demarchelier ed
 
I was planning to get the Lindbergh cover, but once I laid my eyes on the Gigi one - I just had to buy it. In person it looks instantly iconic and so captivating! Miles better than what Meisel did with her in November. I'm not even into her looks but the gaze and the cover are just magnificent!

A very strong and enjoyable issue overall. It seems to really have a Middle-Eastern theme going on, and Casa echoes it as well.
 
Nirvana is so stunning!!! Love how diverse this issue is.

Nirvana Naves** - Lineisy Montero* - Imaan Hammam - Gigi Hadid
 
Thankfully I eventually managed to grab a copy with Gigi Hadid on the cover because that was genuinely the ONLY redeeming quality this entire issue had to offer, for me. Demarchelier's whole cover story blows the rest out of the water, it's a total knockout. :heart:
 

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