^ totally.
What a horrible, horrible issue. Kei and Giampaolo's stories seem to have been accepted in an effort to balance something out, probably just the name of the magazine, but the result is so incoherent and disastrous, they're really not doing any help when stories like Keeping the faith and Passion for pastels pretty much speak for the direction of the entire magazine.. Keeping the faith in particular, is quite honestly, the worst editorial I have seen in years, you want to be careful when trying to be humorous about dated aesthetics such as the 80s Versace one.. the result really just suggests longing (not surprising considering the people involved) and a genuine interest to bring back such a vulgar and ridiculous conception of beauty.
I wonder if Vogue Nippon/Japan really wants ADR or if it's just a Condé Nast strategy, to employ her in one of their editions and continue to pave her way up, cause what she does and is about is just so discordant with anything they were going for only 3 years ago, and with the Japanese approach to fashion in general. If they didn't ask for it, how awful to get a parasite like that thrown into your publication, talk about a fashion nightmare.
Thanks for all the posts, visualoptimism!.