Vogue Italia February 2004 : Lisa Cant by Steven Meisel

[MagFan]

Fashion photography is a TEAM WORK. Magazine people, freelancers, photographer's team - all are involved and all are important. Why most of the time photographer is the only one who gets the praise? And we've seen results of this with Testino, Weber, Richardson and others, who started using that power in their favor.
What was great is to see some photographers work for different magazines with different teams and how different their work turns out. Strong experienced A-listers at Interview and Vogue US and then fails with some Vogue Russia, where total creative freedom was given.

 

[blueorchid]

Ugh, this issue makes me so nostalgic. Just when I was getting into fashion. I'm sure I used at least 5 of those images as LiveJournal icons back in the day.

 

[Phuel]

That it’s still so packed with such visual splendour for a Feb issue just showcases how incredibly filled with only the best of talents that era was. Let that sink in: This is a February issue, and it's still this excellent... This new generation of lessers couldn’t even pack a single story with solid imagery, let alone an entire September issue these days LOL

I just adore Jessica the more I discover her work. She’s never been this OTT-performative model that many want in their Supers. She has this restraint, reserved, quiet, and even icy coolness to her— which you’d think would hold her back. But impressively, she can portray a 1950s bad girl, like in “Be My Baby”— then in another story, portray the blue-blood ice queen with her arched, high brow, and pull it all off so seamlessly. There’s absolutely this dark streak to her white heat muse. She’s the best of Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth and Grace Kelly. And fashion was all the superior for having her. In 2022, we have the dead-in-the-eye stare of Paloma and Hailey LOL.. :weeps: