W November 2007 : The Art Issue

[BerlinRocks]

still no scan??
is it ou at least out in France??
i didn't check...

 

[o'sole]

I usually buy W every month, but not this time...

i agree with you
waiting for the december issue

 

[ChrissyM]

i got the jennifer aniston cover in the mail the other day..
was a little disappointed because i didn't realize it was going to be the art issue..

i have to say i definitely preferred last year's art issue cover--much more fashion related and not celebrity focused:

style.com

the one thing i have to say that i liked about this year's cover is that it wasn't airbrushed (the one i received anyway, i'm assuming the others are the same)
you can see that aniston has got freckles, laugh lines etc. gives them a little more humanity/reality..

the cameron diaz photo is really not great though..

so glad i didn't get the britney cover though

 

[tigerrouge]

I was much more impressed with these covers when I saw them for real - completely forgetting the supposed concept, the sight of such large-sized celebrity candids makes these covers quite attractive.

Anyhow, saw this little comment today, by Jeff Bercovici, in the Conde Nast Portfolio blog section (actual link at bottom of paste

Mega-flack 'Shocked' By 'W''s Art Issue Stunt

Remember when I told you that W magazine was running the risk of pissing off some very powerful Hollywood gatekeepers by appropriating stars' images, without permission, for the cover of its art issue?

Well, consider them pissed off. Or at least consider Jennifer Aniston's publicist, Stephen Huvane, pissed off, which is bad enough. He tells Us Weekly, "We were not happy about it.... We were shocked and disappointed that W ran that cover." (What was I doing reading Us Weekly? Uh, mailroom mix-up. Someone must have accidentally switched it with Harper's.)

And Huvane is not a person whose favor any fashion magazine can afford to lose. In addition to Aniston, his client list includes Julianne Moore, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kirsten Dunst, all three of whom have appeared on W's cover, the latter two in 2007.

It's a truly strange decision when you consider that for W, which averages about 50,000 copies per issue on the newsstand, a truly blockbuster cover means selling an extra 30,000 or so copies. When Vanity Fair pulled the same stunt with Brad Pitt, at least it could hope to move the needle by a couple hundred thousand units.

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2007/11/02/mega-flack-shocked-by-ws-art-issue-stunt

 

[pinksatin]

I got the Aniston cover.

I was disappointed with the issue overall too. Last year's was so great that I was actually looking forward to getting and seeing the new art issue. Last year I thought the eds were so beautiful that I quickly destroyed it by cutting it all up and making my own "art" with the images and it's on my wall. This year nothing is worth tearing out and reworking. It's just not as interesting visually by a long shot. 11 months til next years... hopefully it will be worth waiting for.

 

[testinofan]

Any have this mag, in this issue have 5 ads of Donna karan gold with Catherine mcneil scans pleaseeeee

 

[tigerrouge]

This arrived in the UK last week - and so far, I've only seen the Angelina or the Aniston cover, and I've been flicking through the mags in the stores, to see if there's anyone else available. Maybe they've gone for another sneaky trick, and only released for export the covers that they think will sell the best. Hmm. Or maybe they printed extra copies of the covergirl they thought would sell most copies - Aniston.

 

[happycanadian]

If someone would be so kind as to scan the Marc Jacobs spread, I would be SO extraordinarily thankful to you!

I think his apartment is perhaps the one closest to my own personal aesthetic of any celebrity apartment I've ever seen.

Thanks, in advance.

 

[MissMagAddict]

W Flashback: Richard Prince's 2007 Art Issue, Featuring Paparazzi Photographs

Ever since W launched its annual Art Issue in 2006, nearly every artist tapped to showcase their vision through the cover has worked directly with a celebrity, from Mickalene Thomas transforming Cardi B into a number of glamor queens from a bygone Hollywood era to Yayoi Kusama covering George Clooney in polka dots. The second-ever Art Issue (2007) was conceived of by the artist Richard Prince (who has returned for the 2019 edition, as well). Both then and now, he has tampered with in-the-moment , celebrity-saturated media ephemera. In 2007, it was all about paparazzi imagery. Prince decided on a number of high-profile names from that year, including Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston, Lindsay Lohan, and Britney Spears. Prince simply downloaded their widely seen images, then appropriated the photos with hand-scribbled messages dedicated to himself. One example: "Hey Richard, Shine on!, Angelina Jolie." See what his commentary on celebrity culture looked like in the days before Instagram—which he used for the 2019 Art Issue cover, starring Kate Moss—with his 2007 Art Issue covers.



source | wmagazine