Vogue Italia November 2024 : Lana Del Rey by Steven Meisel

This is so unexpected...but very welcomed.
 
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So unexpected! Vogue Italia, Meisel, and Lana! Feels like everything after 2017 never happened. I know Italia and France are now small editions of Vogue, but the Meisel touch makes me think "Who cares? I'm for it!" Assistant, repetitive, etc. I don't care at all reading that. I'm happy because my favorite photographer still working, and is back at home after eight forgettable years. And the subject! She deserves this collab, I love her.

Nothing to do with this, but I hope one day he notices Kylie Minogue, the ultimate Queen. And that's it.
 
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These remind me of Dolores Guinness by Slim Aarons.
The last time she looked this good was when she first came out, or the H&M campaign.
And Meisel is like a big hotel bed with very crisp sheets. Temporary comfort but guaranteed sanity. By contrast, Klein made her look too street and Hawkesworth made her too... real.
 
the inside is giving ornella vanoni in the 1960s. i love the cover, lana looks stunning and full of life, but i'm getting sick of this formula of meisel replicating the style of vogue covers of the 1960s or whatever era they did these portraits in. i mean, they work but it's too safe, repetitive, we're in a different decade. and i don't know how about you guys, but the magic of vogue italia was about a fantastic story telling and elaborate fashion editorials. nowadays even when we get a decent meisel cover, that's usually it. nothing worthy of even flipping the cover page. back in the franca days, this would be a great supplement cover.
 
I'm opening my library's digital copy, looking at any Meisel cover for Vogue Italia, I want to believe in the issue...

Digital copy showing 192 pages, inside front cover ad is Rianne for Vuitton.

At the front of the issue, there's a reprint of a jewellery editorial with Lindsay Leonard - one edition misspelled her name in the credits as 'Linsdey Lenoard', and the misspelling has carried over into this reprint. People working across several editions have not checked anything at any point, they've just plopped the shoot into the page run.

In the main editorial section, there are more images in the cover story than we've seen online. It's followed by the Norman Jean Roy reprint from US Vogue, then 'Between the Sky and Water', a shoot I haven't seen before, by Thomas Cristiana, with model Anouck Smits, followed by the Jacquemus-at-home reprint, the Raquel Z pottery studio reprint, and lastly, the Charlotte Wales reprint from UK Vogue.
 
Good for Lana, happy she’s having a second wind with her moment. I’ll ignore the McGirr McQueen moment though… mainly because it was just bad fashion.

Now, the hair. It’s so fried and the way it has been photographed is so poor. Could they not have done a wig or something? I get Meisel likes to do those strands in the face for that “Avedon/Ara Gallant” hair reference, but this is just bad, bad, bad. It’s so thirsty, and the full on zoom in makes it so noticeable.
 

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