Vogue Paris April 2013 : Isabeli Fontana by Mario Testino

[kewkaw]

They Photoshopped her face into something weird

omg

 

[thiago:)]

Love to see Isabeli heart but that's pretty awful.

 

[ALAUU]

The hideous styling ruined what would've been such a beautiful shot. I mean, really how do you F up something like this? They've got the most beautiful scenery and the background and still couldn't conjure up a good shot.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

My goodness what a shame, i love if not the contents, at least the covers Alt's been producing, but this is so bad! The landscape is gorgeous, but there is one too many elements here, and it feels like something should have been taken out (hat, earrings,bracelet, whatever, i understand its about Peru, but eics job is to make sure the cover image is not imposing, and a good eic understands that!), and then what can one say about taking the most, or one of, beautiful faces in fashion, and doing THAT much airbrushing to it?!

 

[Melly5525]

I think the cover is a fun spring cover, Isabeli is gorgeous the styling is outrageous but works with the backround and its a change from all their recent covers. Excited for the contents, really good cast.

 

[CommanderTMugler]

I'm glad Isabeli got this cover but they really messed up her gorgeous features.

 

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

what happened here

 

[Bertrando3]

the camera should be yanked-out of Testino's hands as someone stated somewhere on the net

I so agree it's not even funny. BAD BAD BAD cover, are they serious??? Testino retouches way too much his photos (or the studio or retouchers who work for him lol) Isabeli always always always looks bad with too much make-up, her face doesn't work with strong make-up that's a simple fact, it makes her look trampy where usually with a simple and bare make-up she looks fantastic and classy. Here her face is so wrong that I don't know if I want to laugh or scream at how sad and bad it looks, the pose is cliché, the background doesn't scream fashion or Parisian and looks like a background from National Geographic more than one for French Vogue. I mean isn't the worst cover of 2013 so far? Her make-up, Testino's photo and the ridiculous coverlines.

 

[Srdjan]

Here, we are too critical of the covers, this is an overall lovely cover. Yes, some details (like earrings) haven't been taken care of, but still.

 

[Melancholybaby]

Somehow I was expecting Gisele to cover this issue...anyway on to the actual cover, I am extremely disappointed. The Dolce & Gabbana (?) outfit ruins the whole cover with its tackiness. Hopefully, the stories inside are good (and showcase Peru's natural beauty properly).

 

[HeatherAnne]

They made her look awful. The styling is equally terrible. What a waste of landscape.

 

[jmrmartinho]

This shot by Inez & Vinoodh and with a different styling would have looked amazing.
Mario Testino is done, I havent liked a work from him in a long time and Alt had a really miss styling on this one.

 

[maxlinden]

Isabeli's face is horrible!

 

[padre]

french GLAMOUR August 1993 #56 Helena Christensen by Mario Testino and... Carine Roitfeld
bellazon.com

 

[GlamorousBoy]

well, styling is tacky but I love that exotic look of the cover

 

[vogue28]

To be honest I think Mario Testino excels himself when working for Vogue Paris. Although I'm not a massive fan of this particular cover. I do, however, still fawn over his cover with Laetitia Casta. As jmrmartinho mentioned, Inez & Vinoodh would have provided something more creative, something visually stimulating.

The Peru theme is blatant on the cover. The background looks fantastic, great use of location. It's just that Isabeli's face looks so.. offish.

 

[Jelavender]

The styling is indeed horrible, but the horrendous Dolce & Gabbana outfit somehow blends well with the background, which isn't a bad thing. Also, having this beautiful natural background and considering the theme of the issue, you'd expect something really sincere and genuine, but the model poses and especially stares in such a ... hot (perhaps)... way, which unfortunately doesn't fit in and doesn't work.

 

[HeatherAnne]

This shot by Inez & Vinoodh and with a different styling would have looked amazing.

AGREED.

The best Vogue Cover under Alt was still the very first one with Gisele in St. Barth's shot by I&V. I can't help comparing it with this cover, and then grimacing.

 

[alonsoJonathan]

First of all thank god is not kate
Secondly yay for Isabeli!!
the hat is a lil distracting imo.

 

[julien520]

it suddenly reminds me of Dior F/W 2002 ,Alt always has a retro taste