Vogue Italia July 2000 : Hannelore Knuts by Steven Meisel

This cover has always stuck out to me for some reason. I mean she defrosting chicken but the image is striking and memorable. It captures life in a rather dark and odd way. It makes you think beyond just the images themselves. It also makes me miss the collaboration of Lori Goldstein and Meisel. Fantastic work all around. Thanks for posting ivano!

 

This must be one of my all-time favorite editorial from Meisel! I love the mood in this story, kinda lonely-lady-in-glamorous-clothes feeling. Hannelore was great in this ed! Again, Meisel had revisited this theme again in the story in August 2012 issue and it was good too!

 

Truly magnificent. Fashion was so meaningful during this time! These images have so much to say! Soulful, powerful, impactful, beautiful....I miss this so much!

 

I loved to see her in the last Dries van Noten show, and i came here directly for this incredible editorial. It amazing the misterious light, the opressive atmosphere, her sadness, all involve in these common places. She has an Annie Lennox vibe that I love, and those cold eyes, living for this.

 

Magazine: Vogue Italia (July 2000)
Title: How To Build The Most Perfect Body Skin
Photographer: Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Model(s): Karen Elson, Bianca Krizek, Frankie Rayder, Malgosia Bela, Vanessa Greca

Vogue Italia Archivio

 

Don't know why I came to the vintage section, I just want to weep. This is sheer perfection, storytelling with layers and not just cheap irony like we're used to these days.

Some of Steven's best and most iconic work is with Lori and Brana from this time, when he was obsessed with L.A. and shot everything there. It feels truly special now, it defines that time in fashion so well.

 

Looking back at this it seems that 50% of Hugo Comte's work is trying to emulate this particular edit and its mood. But this one edit is so lovely, I don't mind seeing it reproduced.

 

I want another Belgian model attack like early 00's!