W Magazine Volume #1 2023 : The 'Best Performances’ Issue by Jamie Hawkesworth

[Bertrando3]

Stupid : 3000 covers and 99% are bad lol NEXT !

 

[8eight]

i LOVE Jamie's work - he is one of the best. But im not sure he is suited to celebrity portfolios.

 

[caioherrero]

i LOVE Jamie's work - he is one of the best. But im not sure he is suited to celebrity portfolios.

Me too

 

[Deleted member 141523]

Brad Pitt has more covers than Amber and Shalom in the 90s at this point. Every year the same. And Jennifer First Action Female Hero Lawrence has a good cover but her humility and being political stuff kinda sucks lemons. I like Ana, Margot, Michelle W., Zoe and Cate here, but because of them. Austin has the best covers among the guys.

 

[fenty]

when did W become an actor/actress magazine? Nonetheless this isnt so bad.

 

[blueorchid]

^ 20+ years ago?

 

[YohjiAddict]

My favorites are Margot Robbie, Austin Butler, Cate Blanchett and surprisingly Michelle Williams – who I usually find blander than oatmeal. I would tend to agree that Hawkesworth is not the best for celebrity portrait commissions but this turned quite all right, they don’t look like neurotic luvvies doing a clown impression or recovering drug addicts, it’s warm and they look comfortable.

 

[Bernie Flood]

I love Michelle Yeon but why do they dress her in BALENCIAGA?

Kering is their biggest advertiser….

 

[Bernie Flood]

But where is Dolly deLeon? She deserves to be in there!

 

[vogue28]

Mona Tougaard by Rafael Pavarotti:

 

[avonlea002]

She looks diabolical. The retouching is beyond hideous.

 

[WAVES]

LOVE Mona’s editorial and it’s great to see her styled like this since she was becoming/ is/ was… a little one dimensional.
good job!

 

[Phuel]

She looks diabolical. The retouching is beyond hideous.

Thought it was Bianca Del Rio.

He just can’t help himself with the over-processed post-production. I get he loves color, but sheesh— it’s always so excessively over-saturated, harshly-bright and painfully-contrasted: Like having to stare at a lightbulb.

If he does learn to reign it in, he’s decent enough, even solid. Unfortunatelyy, because he’s already snatched all the top editorial and campaign spots with this kind of junior-level aesthetic, he will simply continue as is, rather than pushing himself for better. I don’t find anything he does fresh or exciting since it’s always copying everything that we’ve already seen from greater talents— just replaced with a Black cast (Edward’s idea of creative resolution, so no wonder Edward favours him so much). However, he does it better than all his contemporaries— at least he understands composition, if that means anything.

 

[oaklee91]

The font makes me spiteful

 

[reesewu]

The Mona editorial proves that Pavarotti is one of today's best working photographers. He does need to tone down his oversaturation every once in a while--though personally, I don't really mind it--but his versatility to adapt to certain aesthetics and adeptness at transforming his subjects into glamorous individuals are rare skills that 70% of new, so-called fashion photographers could only aspire to have. The aforementioned editorial saves this issue imo.

 

[Drusilla_]

Hate the covers (well, most of them anyway, this releasing 246289101 covers for every issue business was stale ten years ago and no less so now), love the shot of Mona.

 

[penny609]

Love Mona's story despite it's a studio shooting with plain background. It literally saves the issue, at least for me, as everything else I've seen is blatantly uninteresting to the maximum.

 

[Deleted member 141523]

Mona Tougaard by Rafael Pavarotti:

Getting strong Ghauri vibes from this

 

[Aedlacir]

Raquel Zimmermann by Colin Dodgson

 

[WAVES]

that first picture of Raquel… it’s not very good is it?
who takes a bad picture of Raquel Zimmerman???

only the third one is good.