Vogue Italia November 2021 : Lady Gaga by Steven Meisel

[Deleted member 141523]

There's no mention of L'Uomo Vogue. In the other hand, this issue is way better than the past 5 years together.

 

[Zorka]

I think there’s an original beauty editorial too, with Levante (pg 135)

Oh, yes dear @charles01 , you're totally right but somehow I overlooked it!

BEAUTY
Photography: Carolina Amoretti
Styling: Roberta Pinna
Hair: Mariangela Santoro
Make-up: Rachid Tahar
Model/Celebrity: Levante



Outtakes:



Vogue Italia Digital Edition; instagram.com/levanteofficial

 

[Zorka]

Zorka, you’re the real MVP

Awwwwww...

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[charles01]

Thank you @Zorka! We all appreciate you posting these, you spend so much time making this community so amazing

 

[WinstonH20]

Echoing everyone else, @Zorka your hard work and time is much appreciated. Thank you.

As for the issue, colour me pleasantly surprised. An all round solid offering. Nothing particularly mind-blowing but far better than last month's abysmal Grazia level editorials. The Meisel cover is good and hearkens back to the glory days of VI and it's nice to see Roversi working with someone other than Ib 'clown couture' Kamara. His story is quite delicate and beautiful.

This is only a fragile start and I wonder how solid an issue without A-list contributors like Meisel and Roversi will be, but hopefully Francesca keeps this direction going forward. Focus on quality, not quantity. This also gives me some hope for Vogue France moving forward. We will see...

 

[Phuel]

Nothing appealing about the covershot nor the soft rebranding of this Vogue, as far as I’m concerned. Like mike, I was also more curious about the art direction and layout. Franca’s Vogue is long gone and buried, and anyone wishing/hoping/praying that that brand of high fashion and high concept will find its way back is either kidding themselves or clueless to CN and Edward’s agenda. This is Edward’s Vogue: From the generic layout that’s just a shared template from his Vogue UK to the pro-Black representation that he’s enforced, Italia. France and UK may as well be imploded into a single Vogue.

The standout of course is Roversi’s story.

(Even the stylishly and skilled archaic art direction of Emmanuelle’s Paris is replaced with this dumbed down for the mall-aesthetic in the Edward-controlled "France" November issue. They were smart enough to keep the clashing typefaces of Emmanuelle’s Vogue in small doses— I'll give them that. But it’s diluted for the mid-range department store sensibility. These Vogues are now made for the masses. And they look it.)

 

[ah ah]

New Vogue feels like Grazia spiced up with a bit of Meisel.

 

[Xone]

And don't forget that now VI included a shopping section with a shooting by Nicoló Parsenziani and styled by Roberta Pinna....9pgs...

There is another beauty "story" shot by Dan Beleiiu.6pgs

But it's true what @Phuel said....it's a template applied to VF and VI. And it was expected because Edward is behind it and he just make VF and VI clones of British Vogue.There is no personality anymore, you can buy one the other and it's ok. between VF and VI, VI is better edited/compiled.

Vogue Spain still looks they way it used to and Vogue Germany i don't know....

The Rovers story stands out. and the last page talking about the LGBTQ+ law that was dismissed by Italian parlament.

 

[Deleted member 141523]

^ It really made my sad about how this looks now, full of text, and even there's no an inside cover to introduce the fashion eds (the one with the name of the month and its theme a la Franca), but to be fair, is by far better than the last two years of Farneti. There's real models there, in real photographs, wearing real clothes, with real text. We forgot that simplicity is the best way to show your contents, like any other normal magazine. It was crazy to look at those painted "editorials", with no photos. I still don't know if brands (unlike the people of Instagram) praised or hate the previous VI. For sure this will change again in two years, but I have faith with this one.

 

[Xone]

^ It really made my sad about how this looks now, full of text, and even there's no an inside cover to introduce the fashion eds (the one with the name of the month and its theme a la Franca), but to be fair, is by far better than the last two years of Farneti. There's real models there, in real photographs, wearing real clothes, with real text. We forgot that simplicity is the best way to show your contents, like any other normal magazine. It was crazy to look at those painted "editorials", with no photos. I still don't know if brands (unlike the people of Instagram) praised or hate the previous VI. For sure this will change again in two years, but I have faith with this one.

Yeah i forgot to mention that @ivano in both editions VF and VI deleted that Introductory page to the fashion editorials that was present in Carine's and Alt's VP and Franca and Farneti's VI. That's a little weird because both editions failed to edit good that transition .

Like i said VI beats VF this month because everything is better compiled/edited it's stronger and more cohesive (with reprints included). But let's see if things get better for VF, i'm very curious for their december issue.

 

[Deleted member 141523]

^ And it comes with L'Uomo? It seems cool that finally VI and its male counterpart will have the same quality of contents. It's been so long since the ADR days. After her departure things changed. Franca did the best Vogue of all time (and I will love her forever), but I wasn't a fan of her L'Uomo, because she eliminated all the fashion editorials with male models. About the new VI, I like the references to the glory days. It brings a lot of nostalgia finding those Steven Meisel pictures in the magazine. I'm pretty sure this won't be the last time of Steven at VI. Edward shuld call him for the March and September issues. That would be such a dream.

 

[Xone]

^ And it comes with L'Uomo? It seems cool that finally VI and its male counterpart will have the same quality of contents. It's been so long since the ADR days. After her departure things changed. Franca did the best Vogue of all time (and I will love her forever), but I wasn't a fan of her L'Uomo, because she eliminated all the fashion editorials with male models. About the new VI, I like the references to the glory days. It brings a lot of nostalgia finding those Steven Meisel pictures in the magazine. I'm pretty sure this won't be the last time of Steven at VI. Edward shuld call him for the March and September issues. That would be such a dream.

No L’uomo pack with this issue i think maybe december could come with L’uomo…let’s wait. The issue of L’uomo is not bad but 8 euro is too much…

 

[Deleted member 141523]

No L’uomo pack with this issue i think maybe december could come with L’uomo…let’s wait. The issue of L’uomo is not bad but 8 euro is too much…

Maybe because its frequency. At least you have more time to buy L'Uomo than Vogue (4 issues against 12, by year).

 

[Deleted member 141523]

The colors of the digital version are terrible. Reminds me of to the old PDFs during Franca's years. They don't make justice to the real pictures.

My snaps.

 

[vogue28]

I'm unable to remember the last time I bought (or was even enthusiastic about) Vogue Italia but it would have been a sin to miss out on this.

Not only do we have Meisel's presence back at Italian Vogue but the cover (despite the 'collaboration' with British Vogue) is nothing short of flawless. My copy has been sat on my desk for weeks and I often just find myself staring at it. The cover itself is printed on matte paper whilst the masthead is glossy, which helps the magazine feel like the luxury, fashion-forward magazine we've known Vogue Italia to be over the years.

 

[JPineapple]

The colors of the digital version are terrible. Reminds me of to the old PDFs during Franca's years. They don't make justice to the real pictures.
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My snaps.

This is how the print version looks, million times better:

 

[keviners]

I looked at this month at Book Soup in West Hollywood and it was the only copy and it was so amazing and invigorating.