WSJ. Magazine Fall 2021 : Amanda Gorman by Cass Bird & Marta Ortega Pérez by Steven Meisel

[Melancholybaby]

Steven Meisel is working with WSJ now. A supplement has a budget that can afford Meisel and not the US mainstream like Vogue, Elle or HB. Condé Nast and Hearst, can you fell the embarrassment.

It's actually Zara that can afford a WSJ puff piece on its future CEO accompanied by a (phoned-in) Meisel photoshoot.

 

[GivenchyAddict]

I would not mind the classic B&W Meisel for WSJ all the time.

 

[aracic]

Seeing as he shot Coppola for the same supplement magazine in 2017, I suppose their budget can handle it even without Zara.

I always enjoy new Meisel work, it's never disappointing! I'm particularly happy about this seeing as his editorial work is so rare nowadays.
It's far from his best work, but I'll take it!

 

[caioherrero]

So Karl only works with Zara now?

 

[Joromana]

Steven Meisel is working with WSJ now. A supplement has a budget that can afford Meisel and not the US mainstream like Vogue, Elle or HB. Condé Nast and Hearst, can you fell the embarrassment.

No, probably not.

It's more likely he shot this as a favor to Marta Ortega Pérez since Zara is almost certainly paying him big money to shoot their campaigns. I'm guessing this was shot simultaneously during a Zara photo shoot.

 

[Fiercification]

I'll just take Templer shooting editiorial for a magazine again...let alone Meisel doing a shoot besides for UK Vogue. It's phoned in but beautiful. No doubt it's a one-off due to the Zara associations though. Although Meisel did shoot Sofia Coppola with Paul Cavaco for WSJ in 2017 so who knows!

RE the Amanda cover - gorgeous portrait, very 90s (reminds me of the members of a UK girl group called Cleopatra who used to rock their braids proudly back then). Too bad the editorial is boring. Meisel can afford to be lazy - he's a legend and the results are at least good. Cass Bird...not so much. At her worst she's only a step away from Collier level imagery (thankfully not quite that bad here).

 

[Zorka]

MODERN HEIRLOOMS
Photographer: Samuel Bradley
Stylist: Chloe Grace Press
Hair: Mari Ohashi
Make-Up: Thom Walker
Models: Evie Saunders & Grace Musase



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[Zorka]

KNITS & PIECES
Photographer: Josh Olins
Stylist: Ludivine Poiblanc
Hair: Shon
Make-Up: Petros Petrohilos
Models: Miriam Sanchez, Awar, Louise Robert & Laura Hagested



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[Zorka]

MORE IS MORE IS MORE
Photographer: Nadine Ijewere
Stylist: Kate Phelan
Hair: Shiori Takahashi
Make-Up: Lucy Burt
Model: Shivaruby Premkanthan



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[caioherrero]

No to all this. Only good thing is Meisel and Karl.
This year this magazine is boring. They used to do such a cool work.

 

[Zorka]

THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL
Photographer: Markn
Stylist: Ai Kamoshita
Hair: Soichi Inagaki
Make-Up: Crystabel Efemena Riley
Models: Taira, Akuol Deng Atem, Seohyun Kim, Kitan Sogo & Fabio Rosario



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[GivenchyAddict]

This Olins x Poiblanc shoot is criminal. It just cheapens the whole issue.