W September 2006 : Christina Ricci by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott

[fleur137]

^exactly!

 

[Spike413]

I love the cover, and actually, I liked a few of the shots from the Teller editorial.

As others have said, Shalom and Stephanie look the best of all, but I really love the shots of Pat Cleveland too.

style.com

It's odd, I've never been a fan of Jurgen's work, but between the styling (which I really like) and some of the poses, there's something that appeals to me.

 

[fleur137]

^some of them look ok (e.g. shalom) but imo, rachel hunter and others look awful. for an ed that they're hyping up because it features prominent models from the past, i would have expected more. but then i'll make a judgement on the whole mag when natalia's ed is out.

 

[Jacque Marcel]

I still think Paulina and Christy look great. The others are so so and Naomi looks like a reject from Flavor Of Love.

 

[CharlottefromCA]

Naomi looks like a reject from Flavor Of Love.

 

[Monmonde]

Not at all fond of this issue...
Christina looks alright on the cover, but I really hate what she's wearing... That big fur is so undescribably hideous

And that 90s supermodels edit is just gross. I really like Juergen Teller, think he is very talented, and absolutely loved his April edito for W (IMO one of the best edit this year so far) But... what the hell is this? ewwww

 

[mikel]

yuck!

style.com

Yuck indeed, Rachel Hunter looks absolutely hideous

 

[evisu donna]

Oh god, this is really bad

 

[Moofins]

Those "old" model pictures are frightening, mostly. Some are okay, but MAN.

 

[kanita]

I don't know if it is 'bad', the old models pictures, it probably was Jurgen Tellers intention to make them look 'not perfect', just like the young models are photographed, dressed up in glamorous clothes, but with a 'dirty' exprecion on there faces. It is kind of ground braking, to change our way how we see 'older woman'. They are (still) sexy but in a raw kind of way.

 

[fouroclock]

I still think Paulina and Christy look great. The others are so so and Naomi looks like a reject from Flavor Of Love.

One of top three best post ever.

 

[fleur137]

The others are so so and Naomi looks like a reject from Flavor Of Love.

LOL!! karma!

 

[Ariez]

my God, they all look disgusting except for Shalom. wtf? Was this his intent? To make them look like crap? Even if that was the case I really dont get it. and the pages are so big too, if i were someone who bought the magazine for the first time i'd proably drop it in horror lol. Way to kill an issue.

 

[china doll]

I don't know if it is 'bad', the old models pictures, it probably was Jurgen Tellers intention to make them look 'not perfect', just like the young models are photographed, dressed up in glamorous clothes, but with a 'dirty' exprecion on there faces. It is kind of ground braking, to change our way how we see 'older woman'. They are (still) sexy but in a raw kind of way.

I agree, looks like he had some view-point where not all of us understand that... but at the first glance of course these photos looks ugly

 

[StellaMare]

I really like Teller's shoot. It shows us REALITY, and yes fashion edits tend to be quite far from reality and that may be more interesting, but this kind of photography just gets me. I love Teller & Richardson, because they basically just put people under a flash and (well,they try) to make everything ugly into some kind of beautiful. I think it's captivating.

 

[ShoeGal4Eva]

why is christina on the cover???? just because one's in a movie about a woamn with a pig nose does not make one nicole kidman

 

[Avant Garde]

why is christina on the cover???? just because one's in a movie about a woamn with a pig nose does not make one nicole kidman

I think its nice that they used a lesser known actress for a change.

 

[ShoeGal4Eva]

^it's much better than usinf same celebs like lindsay lhan over and over again...but i just dont like her in particular and find her overrated

 

[em 692]

i am so excited to see what they shot in Detroit (at the Heidelberg Project?) for the first time in a while, i am excited to see Kate Moss

...but i'm sure there is already a thread on this i remember because i went to it when i first found out they were shooting in Detroit. was it deleted?

 

[Luxx]

I was very excited to see the Kate Moss and Bruce Weber edit but quite frankly I found the vast majority of it offensive and stereotypical. The whole vibe was supermodel slumming it with urban youth. I'm not usually the sort to get up in arms about a photo shoot but I felt like this was in really poor taste. There were over 50 photos as per Weber's usual and I felt like about 5 of them were legitimately good. There was something opportunistic and semi explotive about that editorial. The scenarios seemed cribbed from a bad episode of Soul Food, they were comical. Kate goes to "gospel" church, Kate plays basketball, Kate makes out with brawny boxer, Aretha Franklin's breasts spill out of her top, Kate chills with her peeps, Meg White appears, Kate gets a bad hair weave and so on so forth. Add to that the fact that Kate looked positively knackered the whole shoot and you've got a really bad edit. Maybe I should scan to show what I'm talking about.

Best editorials in the entire magazine belong to Natalia, Malgosia and interestingly enough Christina Ricci.