Vogue Paris October 2010 : Lara Stone by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott

[CrisGalaxy]

^ Yeah I don't think Lara Stone is very popular here in the U.S.
The only well known models in the U.S. are Gisele, Kate, Heidi, and Naomi

 

[cottonmouth13]

there are people who haven't heard of kate moss.

This cracked the hell out of me.

 

[florider2000]

I love that they kept the whole of VOGUE letters across her eyes. For once it was perfect composition to let it be. I absolutely love it, I can imagine Herb Ritts doing something similar. The good old days with B&W simple portraits. remember TATJANA BEHING BLACK VEIL Vogue UK cover? as striking and timeless.

 

[Les_Sucettes]

No one I know ever heard of Lara by name, well unless I mention that blonde woman that married David Walliams, they seems to have a fuzzy image of her.

I think the problem in this thread or even in all TSF is that people have different ideas of what "iconic" is, for me Iconic is an image that transcends it's original context and becomes a symbol, a departure, a paradigm. An image that is instantly recalls something, regardless of the culture, status, etc of the person that is looking at it. With this description not many images can be called iconic. Something like the Che photo, Madonna and her conic bra, certain images of Marilyn, Kate Moss in her CK ads. etc etc. Of course that for people like me is risible that an image of Lara Stone that hugging her boobs can be instantly iconic, but I'm prepared to accept that people seem to have different idea of what iconic is, i just still did not understood what it is.

 

[Hyba_ella]

, well said

i do agree with you Les Sucettes, this cover may be striking but there's nothin' iconic about it, I love Lara , she's a great model but what she represents now bothers me , but i guess boobs sell...

 

[tigerrouge]

For me, use of the word 'iconic' is the same as, say, 'impeccable' - it's part of that way of talking where words get divorced from their actual meaning and start becoming a shorthand for how excited someone is to see something.

Although in my dictionary, the only things that are 'impeccable' are manners, saints and very clean surfaces, so I tend to stick to more mundane words for describing magazines.

But if someone uses 'iconic' to sum up how they feel about an image, to me it means they're impressed and totally caught up in the moment - which isn't really what 'iconic' means, so therein lies the irritation for some - but just as fashion is often larger than life, the words to describe it can be similarly over-the-top.

It always makes me think of that Vogue Italia cover, which declared that "plastic is the new black" - and how no-one at the time was entirely sure whether it was serious or satirical.

 

[Laetitia]

Oh great cover !

 

[Over the Sea]

holy boobs

I don't looove the cover, but I do like it

 

[Gaultier_Bandit]

Sooooo true.....Lara is only "big and iconic" only within the fashion crowds. Def. here in the US not allot of ppl. are familiar with her. I wold say the mainstreams idea of models would be Giselle, Naomi, Adriana, Heidi, and Tyra. Those are faces known world wide.....everyone knows them world wide.

 

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

well she did have that W cover and then she was on the cover of US Vogue
im sure people know of her

 

[Gaultier_Bandit]

well she did have that W cover and then she was on the cover of US Vogue
im sure people know of her

^^ This is true, but not everybody reads US Vogue, ....let alon VP or W.

 

[TianSoFine]

It can get annoying after a while when all the ''haters'' have to say that they're so sick of her everything, her work and naked eds etc while there is not one model of her generation who is becoming so iconic as she is.

The world isn't separated between Lara haters and Lara lovers. Just because a person doesn't like this cover doesn't mean they hate her, it means that opinions differ on this particular cover. I don't see too many comments in this thread are actually complaining about how sick they are of her work. People can have criticism for a magazine cover without being a total hater of the model on the cover.

 

[Frenchkiki]

I have nothing against Lara Stone or this cover (nothing spectacular, really) but because of Lara's fans here at TFS I am starting to dislike Lara a lot!
Show a picture of Lara sat on the toilet doing what she has to do and publish it in Vogue and her fans at TFS will scream "this is art!" "this iconic!" "Lara cant do no wrong!"



This cover for me is not a cover for Vogue's 90 anniversary. Not because of Lara. Just because it doesn't fit the event. Looks like a regular cover. And I am not patriot at all but I kind of regret they did not use a French woman for the cover. We have enough real iconic French actresses or Models in France to make a beautiful and spectacular cover.

 

[retailqueen]

please tell me the last 2 pages are a joke?

Are people seriously getting irrate cause all of TFS isnt crazy about Lara/the cover?

I actually like it. The cover would have been a complete success if Lara's boobs didnt occupy such a large part of the page

 

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

^^ This is true, but not everybody reads US Vogue, ....let alon VP or W.

thats very true

 

[clocked]

i think it's Iconic, and Epic, but i've always been a huge Lara fan. so, Lara's boobs and gap and lips? wonderful.

 

[Harumi]

Iconic? Do people outside of websites like TFS even know who she is???

She has achieved a small level of mainstream notoriety, especially in the UK because of her wedding to that Little England guy.
However, whenever she is mentioned outside TFS, people seem to mostly agree about how ugly her face is (I guess the no-eyebrow, black circles and spaced out teeth isn't so mainstream).
Her fans are quite deluded as to her relevance outside the fashion microcosm. Gisele is the last supermodel. And apart from the ultra commercial girls who have branched out like Heidi or Tyra, nobody gives a rat's a** about fashion models, Lara included.

Re: the cover, I think it's absolutely sublime and on part with Vogue Paris' usual excellence.
I always have the highest expectations for this magazine and I am rarely disappointed. Even when they have weak eds there is always something very beautiful to redeem each issue, and they have the best beauty section in the business, months after months. But then, I have not jumped on the VP hate wagon like the rest of TFS (once upon a time Vogue US was cr*p and VP was gold and know the trend has flipped, with people heaping praise on Vogue US 'new direction' - despite the fact that it is as geriatric as ever imo-, and Carine is the new laughing stock). Funny how things work out.

 

[Shelton123]

I have nothing against Lara Stone or this cover (nothing spectacular, really) but because of Lara's fans here at TFS I am starting to dislike Lara a lot!
Show a picture of Lara sat on the toilet doing what she has to do and publish it in Vogue and her fans at TFS will scream "this is art!" "this iconic!" "Lara cant do no wrong!"



This cover for me is not a cover for Vogue's 90 anniversary. Not because of Lara. Just because it doesn't fit the event. Looks like a regular cover. And I am not patriot at all but I kind of regret they did not use a French woman for the cover. We have enough real iconic French actresses or Models in France to make a beautiful and spectacular cover.

Sorry but not every Lara fan is like that, I don't think every picture of Lara is amazing, stunning, spectacular, and iconic, yet she is my favorite model of all time.

And a LOT of models have fans like that, it's not just Lara.

And Lara still got her start in France I believe (I may be wrong so can all y'all please not crucify me if I am?).

I believe that Lara could be an icon, I'm not sure whether she is or not because there really is no clear cut definition of an icon to me. But then again, Angela Lindvall is considered an icon, not trying to take away her status, because I believe she is an icon, but go down the street and ask someone who she is. Most likely they won't know. Maybe you'll get a few more people who know her vs. Lara but it won't be a vast margin. If Lara isn't an icon yet I think she will be.

 

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

i think the thing is with calling this image iconic people are getting memorable and iconic confused. This is a memorable image because its anniversary but not iconic because it has just been released...you cant call something iconic if it is new

 

[agee]

I don't think that Lara Stone is a recognizable name in the US, but her face is somewhat recognizable and Calvin Klein is going to make her much more recognizable if she remains their face for multiple seasons, if not her name. I don't think that if you put Lara or another established but unknown model on the cover of a US magazine that people won't take an interest in it because they don't know her name, I think the thing with US Vogue and other American magazines is not that putting a model on the cover won't sell, it's more that a non-supermodel celebrity will sell better (or the odds are that it will sell better).

I think that in the US, the known models are the super-supers, Kate, Gisele, Tyra, Heidi and the VS crew, Adriana Lima especially; Chanel Iman, even pre-VS Chanel was fairly well known by name and face; Coco Rocha; Karlie seems to be becoming more recognizable (I think a Teen Vogue cover raises your profile quite a bit in that demographic); Agyness has faded but for a while she was one of the more recognizable model names and faces.