Vogue Italia August 2010 : Kristen McMenamy by Steven Meisel

[Psylocke]

That is one of the most AMAZING editorials I have ever seen. Breathtaking. Haunting. Beautiful. WOW!



Thank you so much for posting this already.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Oh damn!

The first shot in #134!!! Pure love.
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[ThiagoMello]

This is the Meisel I love! Incredible editorial, completely new and creative, talking about something recent. Genious! I love all shots.

 

[xerq]

okay i get it now, she's Ariel! brilliant edit

 

[naya]

Goosebumps! Okay, i may have took it a bit too far. It's absolutely incredible though.

 

[tarsha]

OMG! Words can't really describe how amazing this editorial is. Definitely buying the issue.
Thanks so much for posting Omnis! I can imagine how this all will look in HQ. Astonishing!

 

[Riseup]

Now that's an editorial!!!!!!!!!!....beyond amazing, and the concept is great....

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Can't see anyone but McMenamy pulling this off with such magnificence.

 

[IAmLordZen]

It blew my mind. This is both disturbing and brilliant. A fashion editorial that goes beyond fashion. These images are vivid reminders of how much damage the oil spill has caused on the area's ecosystem. Truly marvelous.

 

[ad041715]

The editorial is the best thing I've seen from Meisel for VI in a long time. It pulls at your heart strings and each photo evokes emotion.

 

[Mchunu]

The editorial is everything. Each photograph is unique, beautiful, & melancholic. A depiction of a poetic defeat against mankind. It had to be really difficult to photograph such a story. Meisel is such a fine art photojournalist. Exactly what Italian Vogue has been missing.

I cry..

 

[tentalicious]

No words!

 

[testinofan]

Yes the concept and the ecologic idea are so great loveeeed

 

[avantgarde]

AMAZING.
Kristen is my favorite

 

[Tigertonio]

THE editorial of the year. I salute Meisel, McMenamy and the folks at Vogue Italia.

 

[mikel]

I love that Meisel is doing something topical and so spot on again. It's thought provoking, stunningly executed and Kristen is to die for. Meisel is pushing the bar again with his social commentary on the 'real world' like in his war, terrorism, rehab and dogging eds, but there's one difference with this ed: there's no fine line between glamour and the 'real world'. This ed just feels like social commentary and nothing more. The war, terrorism, rehab and dogging eds had a certain degree and sense of glamour in them. In those eds Meisel managed to make it more than just social commentary on the 'real world' by elevating the fashion and glamour part. It's difficult to see something glamorous in war, terrorism, rehab and dogging, but Meisel managed to do just that and that's why he's such a genius. But here it's different. In this ed there's no sense of fashion or even a hint of glamour. Most pics are just gross, no matter how well executed, no matter how appropriately styled, no matter how good Kristen is. You may find me shallow perhaps, but in the end I don't like it. If I want to see or know how bad and distrubing the oil disaster is, I'll open up a newspaper, not Italian Vogue.

 

[Spiral1532]

I love that Meisel is doing something topical and so spot on again. It's thought provoking, stunningly executed and Kristen is to die for. Meisel is pushing the bar again with his social commentary on the 'real world' like in his war, terrorism, rehab and dogging eds, but there's one difference with this ed: there's no fine line between glamour and the 'real world'. This ed just feels like social commentary and nothing more. The war, terrorism, rehab and dogging eds had a certain degree and sense of glamour in them. In those eds Meisel managed to make it more than just social commentary on the 'real world' by elevating the fashion and glamour part. It's difficult to see something glamorous in war, terrorism, rehab and dogging, but Meisel managed to do just that and that's why he's such a genius. But here it's different. In this ed there's no sense of fashion or even a hint of glamour. Most pics are just gross, no matter how well executed, no matter how appropriately styled, no matter how good Kristen is. You may find me shallow perhaps, but in the end I don't like it. If I want to see or know how bad and distrubing the oil disaster is, I'll open up a newspaper, not Italian Vogue.

Thank you! I didn't want to say anything negative so as to not "rain on the parade", so to speak. But, I don't like this ed either. You can barely even see the clothes.

Don't really understand why some people are acting like we're all gonna hold hands and sing Kumbaya after seeing this ed.

 

[dizzytacks]

environmental commentary finally! i could cry!

 

[Faith Akiyama]

If I want to see or know how bad and distrubing the oil disaster is, I'll open up a newspaper, not Italian Vogue.

But would newspaper articles or AP photos even provoke as much thought into the depth of the disaster as these images, especially in today's media world where there is an oversaturation of media controversy and bias? Especially when so many who are not close to/dependent on the gulf cannot fathom the consequences?

For me these photos tell it like it is - no statistical numbers, no back-and-forth uncertainties. The creatures of the sea, which Kristen represents, undergo a harsh struggle that was uncontrollable by them and devastating to them. Glamour is an unnecessary association to what they've gone through...it's on a somewhat different playing field than the previous, human topics that Meisel's explored before, in my opinion.

 

[honeycombchild]

I think it's a great editorial, I really do. I admit that perhaps it does lack of a sense of underlying glamour or beauty, but I'm perfectly okay with that in this context. I don't really feel it needs it here. Certainly one of VI's best editorials in a long time.

I can't help but have a very shallow concern about the clothes however. Drenched in oil. Something tells me those samples never got returned.