Vogue Paris December 2014/January 2015 : Inès de La Fressange by Mert & Marcus

[ALAUU]

Wow, now this is a well deserved cover. Love Ines!

 

[gossiping]

i know i'll get hate for this but..i don't want to see an older woman on vogue paris. i want to see a young model.

 

[gossiping]

But aren't all magazines kind of this way? UK Vogue is all about London. UK Bazaar is all about the country side so forth and so on.

and i live in those places and i'm bored to death with it...

 

[Benn98]

i know i'll get hate for this but..i don't want to see an older woman on vogue paris. i want to see a young model.

You shouldnt have to get hate for this, it's a perfectly normal reasoning. I dont mind them every now and then - once a year should be enough. Leave that stuff for British or American Vogue, who panders to to a more diverse group of women.

 

[mistress_f]

the cover is beautiful, but the huge horrible font they used for 'ines' ruins it (i guess it's her signature, but still)

 

[Phuel]

Looks more like Jennifer Beals. Ines never even looked this young in the 1980s...

Why are these two allowed to brandish their form of excessive photoshopping on the most high profile of publications and campaigns? Are people that afraid of aging? It's all so disturbing to me that these two are paid-- and paid well, and celebrated to perpetuate ageism in their "work". I really despise their "work".

 

[mepps]

You shouldnt have to get hate for this, it's a perfectly normal reasoning. I dont mind them every now and then - once a year should be enough. Leave that stuff for British or American Vogue, who panders to to a more diverse group of women.

Actually it's not. It's ageism.
Reflecting the diversity of women is not pandering.
The obsession with youth is. Vogue Paris is a fashion magazine for women, and Ines is certainly that.

 

[MON]

i know i'll get hate for this but..i don't want to see an older woman on vogue paris. i want to see a young model.

Why not go for both? Women's diversification just doesn't end with their color, nationality.. it should also include age. And I think having "older women" on their covers is a statement itself - that you could still look fabulous and represent the ideal Parisienne, despite age. Although the photoshop went a bit over, the idea and intention is still there.

I think VP needs to mix it up creatively with their "Guest Edited" issues next year! Maybe instead of having a cover subject photographed by various photographers, why not have fashion influencers really influence the magazine? Like have an issue guest edited by a Stylist and on the cover is the stylist and a muse (e.g. Grace Coddington and a model). Then the editorials will be styled by Grace, Emanuelle ++ They could also create and editorial with 1 look, 2 difference takes of the 2 stylists. Or have a photographer issue! Like Juergen Teller and the editorials will have I&V, M&M, Sorrenti or whoever translate into their work the influence of Juergen. Or or an issue guest edited by the biggest model of the year or the model who has made a huge impact or heck, the model that we all must watch out for in the next year! There are so many creative ideas to play with. Dec/Jan is the only issue where they can have someone play around with the magazine.. so why not make it worth while, eh?

 

[Oxymore]

^this! I couldn't agree more with you. I guess they want to touch a larger public by putting well known faces.
And I'm really hoping for fresh faces for 2015 even if I'm sure will have some Natasha and Lara. Not that I don't like them, I love them but as you said MON, there is so many great ideas and not only for the Dec/Jan issue.

 

[Galimatias]

In all fairness Inès does not really attend a lot of events, she's fairly low-key nowadays, plus the height of her career was decades ago. Can't imagine many younger members would know who she is.

She's one of the faces of L'oreal (She attends a lot of events in Cannes film festival), designer for Uniqlo, 90's Marianne, friend of Carolina de Monaco, ambassador of Roger Vivier,has one book and she starred a Chanel Campaign 33 years ago...

 

[Benn98]

I think VP needs to mix it up creatively with their "Guest Edited" issues next year! Maybe instead of having a cover subject photographed by various photographers, why not have fashion influencers really influence the magazine? Like have an issue guest edited by a Stylist and on the cover is the stylist and a muse (e.g. Grace Coddington and a model). Then the editorials will be styled by Grace, Emanuelle ++ They could also create and editorial with 1 look, 2 difference takes of the 2 stylists. Or have a photographer issue! Like Juergen Teller and the editorials will have I&V, M&M, Sorrenti or whoever translate into their work the influence of Juergen. Or or an issue guest edited by the biggest model of the year or the model who has made a huge impact or heck, the model that we all must watch out for in the next year! There are so many creative ideas to play with. Dec/Jan is the only issue where they can have someone play around with the magazine.. so why not make it worth while, eh?

You've pitched some wonderful ideas here Mon. I'm especially supportive of the model as a guest editor. I think it could give the model a voice within the industry. Although, it will have to be either a super or an established girl. The photographer concept sounds just as good. I do still think their initial idea to have a designer guest edit was more captivating. Why this was stopped, I dont know. Anyway, imo Vogue Australia is probably the only magazine which captures these 'tribute' shoots effectively right now with their models.

 

[Benn98]

She's one of the faces of L'oreal (She attends a lot of events in Cannes film festival), designer for Uniqlo, 90's Marianne, friend of Carolina de Monaco, ambassador of Roger Vivier,has one book and she starred a Chanel Campaign 33 years ago...

I'm not trying to detract her accomplishments. Only, it's not odd if young people dont know about her.

 

[Creative]

For the last few years we are living the stalest period in Fashion History. No doubt about it. There is nothing exciting anymore and this magazine sums up the whole atmosphere: cliched, uninspired, unexciting, mediocre, blasé, boring, lazy... It looks like editors couldn't care lees. They do whatever might sell no matter how boring and done it is and go away with it. I'm pissed.

There's no thinking or depth anymore... There is no will to create beautiful and interesting things. The same girls, the same photographers, the same stylists, the same concepts... the same everything again and again.

 

[vogue28]

Am I the only one who thinks this is a fabulous collaboration? Ines is perfect for Vogue Paris and come to think of it, I'm dumbfounded as to why she hasn't guest-edited the magazine before.

The two covers are brilliant and both do Ines a service. Yeah, an extremely generous service considering the amount of airbrushing - especially on the black and white cover. Yet I've become accustom to over-Photoshopped covers nowadays. All the magazines and photographers do it.. not just Vogue Paris and M&M.

 

[GivenchyHomme]

I wonder what she thinks about them making her look like a wax figure. She's a beautiful woman but it's ruined by the excessive retouching.

 

[AD011620]

I liked that they choose Carla Bruni last year and Ines this year. These are very interesting women who lead interesting lives, who worked with the creme de la creme, who achieved great success in and beyond fashion. I won't even bother commenting on the age issue raised in previous posts simply because I find it offensive and oppresive but we are all entitled to have our opinions... I'd rather have them and get a chance of seeing their vision than Natasha or Lara... They are great supermodels but at the momemt that's about it. For this very reason I would rather have them gracing regular issues which is a great honour in itself...

 

[Lola701]

I'm not trying to detract her accomplishments. Only, it's not odd if young people dont know about her.

It's Vogue Paris and she is very famous in France. As i said earlier, she is in the cover of Elle at least 5 times a year, she's a regular on TV...etc.
And believe me, a Vogue Paris reader knows who Ines is. And that's the only thing that matters.

 

[Les_Sucettes]

i know i'll get hate for this but..i don't want to see an older woman on vogue paris. i want to see a young model.

Why? A woman is a woman, if she looks interesting or not has absolutely nothing to do with age, this idea that youth is the only thing worth looking at makes absolutely no sense to me.

My problem with this Ines is she's outdated not that she's older. I doubt very much that parisian women can see themselves in her nowdays, you just had to have her look to her Uniqlo colab to be stunned by how out of touch she is. And that 50s styling on the cover is awful.

 

[Oxymore]

It's Vogue Paris and she is very famous in France. As i said earlier, she is in the cover of Elle at least 5 times a year, she's a regular on TV...etc.
And believe me, a Vogue Paris reader knows who Ines is. And that's the only thing that matters.

Yeah, everyone knows who she is in France.
I saw her at at the Festival de Cannes this year, she was really nice actually.

 

[VogueGirl8910]

Nice covers, the color one, look like was shot by other photographer, specially Inez & Vinoodh's portrait. This one is more natural than the b&w cover. I can't believe than M&M are the Meisel of VP, i mean of the numbers of the covers this year.