W January 2010 : Jennifer Garner by Craig McDean

[iperlchen]

It doesn't look like Jen.

Maybe they used the outlines of Demi Moore's face as a template, much like they allegedly pasted Demi's face on the body of Anja Rubik last month. Just kidding, but something looks very strange. Oh the wonders of photoshop.

 

[DD.-]

She looks so weird, the make up doesn't suit her at all.
And the dress is nice, but it´s a bad way to sart the year for W imo.

 

[Fiercification]

It looks like W Korea except with even more text. And I think her expression looks like she got caught off guard, like when the photographers are just doing a lighting test or something.

And I agree the black, blue and orange is so messy

 

[MON]

Hate the cover. The colors ruin it! WTH, why did they use blue? The typewriter font that they used made it look cheap. Love the Dior dress

Excited to see S/S 2010 collections

 

[dior_couture1245]

I think Jen looks great, I just think the styling is awful...that Dior dress does not make for a good cover look.

 

[mikel]

The new lay out looks interesting.

 

[AnaBGD]

Her expression is weird/uncomfortable and generally the cover doesn't look good at all, esp. not the colors.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

She does look different, its the face, or maybe that hair? But overall i despise this cover with my whole being, the slightly new layout does not work for me. It just looks cheap, the placing of the text is ridiculous, my god her name text size on the cover is bigger than her head!! Not a cool way to start 10, but then i didnt expect fireworks.

 

[TheCheekyCritic]

She looks like a mix of Keira Knightley and Kelly Brook. What have they done to you Jennifer?

I showed this to my younger sister actually, covering up Jen's name, to see if she recognized her. She wasn't sure if it was Jennifer or Keira Knightley.

This is exactly why facial Photoshopping should always be kept to the absolute minimum. If the shot is sh!te, then it is just that, and no amount of retouching will change that fact.

I don't understand why Jennifer Garner of all people would need to be rubberfaced in this way. She has very strong features, but takes a good photo with a bit of direction and good lighting. This is just unnecessarily lazy. W, I'm disappointed. If you're gonna airbrush, then commit!

Not sure the dress was suitable for a cover shot either, not the way the shot's been cropped. It's a bit overbearing, the dress swallowing the entire lower half of the cover. I do like the idea of the blue against the orange, I just wish they had used another shade of blue.

Overall, however, a very generic, uninspired cover, and a letdown in light of some of their other recent covers. Kinda reeks of Elle US.

 

[user.n.]

Hate the cover. The colors ruin it! WTH, why did they use blue? The typewriter font that they used made it look cheap. Love the Dior dress

Exactly. The orange with the blue are irritating my eyes.

 

[Northern Star]

Not sure about this one either.........some pretty uneventful January covers thus far.

 

[MarionasMuse]

YaY Dior S/S 2010 : )))

 

[mikel]

This is probably a front-of-book editorial:

Constande by Knoepfel and Indlekofer:

Denim never looked as appealing as on the inimitable Constance Jablonski surrounded by a trio of sculpted young men in January’s W Magazine. Constance, Marlon Teixeira, Joan Pedrola and newcomer Isaac Weber/Ford, are all perfectly retro styled by Alex White in Knoepfel & Indlekofer’s sharp and sexy pics.

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It's very Versace. I like it.

 

[Dosmujeres]

I don´t like it

 

[Miss Dalloway]

That is just horrible!

 

[testinofan]

the cover is bad imagine take Michael Thompson, the ed of Knoepfel and Indlekofer is good and diferent to the mag

 

[versustito]

I don't like cover and jennifer face

 

[fashionismydrug]

I think me and W are going to have to formally break up...this is one of the worst covers I have ever seen. That's all.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

^ I feel your pain, in fact i filed for divorce after that shameful December issue. W has been awful for quite some time now, and i dont see how them introducing a shopping, and society issues will do them any better in the new year.

 

[cottonmouth13]

Oh! New typeface! But I gotta agree with some of you guys that the cover isn't appealing at all. I mean, they got a beautiful woman on the cover and yet this is what they have done? I honestly don't know what to think of this right now. I'm trying to appreciate it 'cause of
Ms. Garner but it seems like I can't. First issue of the new decade and yet this is what they have come up.