Vogue Italia February 2011 : Candice Swanepoel by Steven Meisel

[Gabriel29]

Good for Candice! VS girls are on fire!! Not a fan of the styling, but I'll leave my judgement for the spread when it is released.

Anyone hating on the VS girls, get over it. They are sexy, and here to stay! Models are models.

 

[Mchunu]

Seriously-things have gotten to the point where you have to make a decipher that you're not in favor of a model before stating whether or not you like something? I'm not the one patrolling any specific model's thread and I'm not here to talk about whether or not I like Candice-some people like her and other's don't-BIG DEAL? You'd think we were discussing someone of caliber like Oprah.

The ugly truth is everyone is entitled to their own opinion, supported or not. Fighting over models is really just so...high school. The fact that part of my disliking of the final result does have to do with part of its intended effect is totally justified.

Maybe I shouldn't've used "ghetto", but she looks synonymous to a hip hop model. Perhaps its essence is in its 80s/90s influence but I'm not moved at all. We get it...THE 90's! It'll never happen again, though-so enough already.

 

[Omnis]

Always expect the unexpected with Steven Meisel.

 

[jeremydante]

i love this cover- it's like an attack of the angels for february. adriana for vogue brazil, rosie for vogue uk & now candice for italia. i feel a modern day supermodel era approaching. or so im hoping.

beautiful shot & i cannot wait to see the spread. candice is a star.

 

[kingchic]

OMG the over is overtly 90's with an injection of, like, Kimora Lee's Baby Phat.

 

[bbc12]

Beautiful...!!
Awesome...!!!!

 

[KatJenahMckey]

Don't like this at all. It just looks unrefined...

Bring on the Summerton edit and Ann Ward!!!!!!!!

 

[Deleted member 116957]

She reminds me of a Fly Girl. I love it.

 

[mackos]

Could someone please remove this fake cover thing from the first post? Oh wait, it's for real

Looks like the newest low for Meisel, and how impudent one has to be to put So glamorous in its description?

 

[alonsoJonathan]

^^

 

[Simera]

If it was someone else on the cover who wasn't a VS girl I'm sure everyone would feel different about it.
But it's not really that bad, just a bit sexual. But who cares.

 

[tarsha]

^ Of course, in previous month's thread people posted that they adore Meisel and etc. but now.... Don't judge book by it's cover.

 

[Hemmy]

The cover resembles some of Meisel's very early Italian Vogue work-of course, with less class and more bling. She looks like she could be the main ho in a 50 cent video. I don't like.

HAHAHAHAHA
50 cent ho

 

[Bertrando3]

Could someone please remove this fake cover thing from the first post? Oh wait, it's for real [...]

soooooooo good! loool

Then? to answer to those who think that the members who don't like the cover, including me, JUST because it's Candice and not Freja or Karlie or someone else shot by Meisel for the cover of Italian Vogue then I say: it has absolutely nothing to do with that. There were previous covers of Italian Vogue that were also bad: not every cover from every magazines, even from the best ones, will be great, it has to do with various elements.

The image itself is just ridiculous and there's no 90's feeling to it for me at all, where does Amber Valetta get compared to Candice and in this cover
and the bling "guetto" styling (whoever used the word is right: it's so cheap & fake) this isn't just "Vogue" or luxurious or edgy or whatever word that is supposed to embody the Vogue brand.

This is just a mess of a styling no matter whoever girl they would have chosen for this month.

But yeah to add injury they chose a VS girl that isn't typically the "best" model for a Vogue high fashion cover to start with OR at least a Victoria's secret girl that has a background in high fashion and knows how to pose.

But obviously some people will love the cover because it's Candice or because they feel the styling is "cool" or "fun" but it's definitely not the case for me.

 

[AgrenateD]

sometimes it makes me rather gleeful seeing Meisel churn out covers like this, as if to deliberately smite on us members for our outrageously fickle model preferences.

but i couldn't care less for Candice landing this one and it does makes a nice change as well, though it's quite amusing how some people treat her being on the cover as something akin to personal injury. my only gripe is that the idea already had so much potential but they still end up using the same old stereotype on the model. though of course it would be odd not to capitalize on her obvious purpose (and it seems like the only reason why they get chosen at times), to portray the usual raunch, thus making everything worse as is the case on this cover. add to that the excessive styling that is supposed to look back on the garishness of the 90s. but then again the eds haven't been released yet anyway so i suppose we only need to wait until we can pass the verdict that this issue is as hideous as it appears to be.

 

[CielDeLit]

Unfortunately after looking at it over and over, i stlll can't find a single positive thing to say about the cover. It is very unremarkable, cheap and just plain ghetto-looking.

^ ditto.

The hair, the styling, the layout, the background... Actually the model is maybe the only thing OK about this cover.

 

[rockit21]

The negativity is shocking.
They made a random girl into a GODDESS.
Let me see u do that

 

[honeycombchild]

You say goddess, I say hoochie-mamma.

I'm just not feeling what they're trying to do here at all. I thought with a second look that maybe I'd feel differently but alas, I do not.

And it's got nothing to do with the model choice for me. I couldn't care less which model it is, so long as it's a good cover. I don't particularly feel this is good on any level, be that styling, photographically, beauty wise..

 

[Northern Star]

Well you always count on Meisel and V.I. to shake it up. After the sublime high fashion glamour of last issue to the full-on bling and 90's assault of this cover. They can never be accused of being boring.
As for my opinion, I actually don't mind it at all.....don't love it, but certainly don't find it offensive.
Cannot say I've ever been a huge fan of Candice.......very pretty girl at the least, here I find her reminscent of Lydia Hearst. I really can't wait to see the contents and see where they go with the main editorial.

 

[annavtree]

I think the cover is a success in that it manages to be what it wants to be/what it was aiming for. It is certainly a statement. But I don't think it is a statement I like very much. My tastes run much more to the pretty and this is...not pretty.