Editorial | 'The Pattern' Fei Fei Sun by Yuangui Mei for Vogue China March 2011
February 28,2011
The Pattern
Vogue China March 2011
Shot by: Yuangui Mei
Styling by: Ling Wu
Model: Fei Fei Sun
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The Pattern
Vogue China March 2011
Shot by: Yuangui Mei
Styling by: Ling Wu
Model: Fei Fei Sun
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New York
Playing Fashion March 2011
Shot by: Emma Tempest
Model: Giedre Dukauskaite
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Boots & Saddles
Vogue Nippon April 2011
Shot by: Mark Segal
Model: Bianca Balti editorial
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L - Movie Poster, for Longchamp's Faraway. [Fashion District]
M - Tyra Banks Prepares to Launch Type F. [Modelinia]
R - Vanity Fair 2011 Oscar Party Red Carpet - Anne Vyalitsyna. [Women]
L - Arizona Muse for YSL Manifesto Bag. [T Magazine]
M - Fordmodels.com Relaunches. [Ford's Blog]
R - Editorial Preview | Stone Cold Fox. [Models.com]
L - New Face | Jia Jing. [Models.com]
M - New Face | Dalhia (Silent). [tFS]
R - Diamond Session at IZAIO. [Models & Style]
Extra: Making of Marc O'Polo Campaign. [...]
Vogue Italia's blog:
The creative director of Dior (now suspended by the company) was clearly provoked, and filmed, while obviously inebriated
When it comes down to it, there’s proof of what happened to John Galliano – there’s the video, posted by The Sun on its website.
It’s all in high definition – especially the sound – and the image is enviably composed. However, we aren’t clear about one thing: the video starts right at the moment when Galliano launches his tirade. So one or the other must be true: either whoever took it was a master of timing, or what we are seeing is a video created for this purpose. In other words, possibly it was made by holding the mobile in the hand waiting for the celebrity – evidently provoked – to explode.
An explosion was more than probable when you add together the amount of alcohol Galliano had consumed and the provocations of the people speaking to him. Of course we condemn the extremely seriously racist content of what he said (there’s even a hypothetical apology for Nazism).
We don’t want to go on an obsessive search for hidden motives, but perhaps behind this event are just some parvenus of journalistic scandal who, in our opinion, were waiting to have three minutes of video to sell to someone for a good deal more than 30 pieces of silver.
This after Hilary Alexander's comments. Gabriel Bell of Refinery29, responds to this best:
“30 pieces of silver” is shorthand for the Jewish betrayal of Christ. It is one of those artifacts of pre-WWII cultural anti-semitism that has no place in an article defending someone against charges of anti-semitism. How could anyone be so titanically tone-deaf as to sign off their conspiracy theory with that particular chestnut? I can’t claim to step into the writer's mind and explain their motives. Doing so would make me a conspiracy theorist, much like them. But I can speak to what I see, and what I see is someone using old anti-semitic tropes to describe a perceived conspiracy in the press against someone who used anti-semitic remarks.
On face value alone, this Vogue Italia post is sloppy conspiracy thinking underlined with needless racial insensitivity. Dig just a centimeter below the text, and it appears that whoever wrote this—and I do truly hope it isn't Ms. Sozzani—has serious problems with the truth and, perhaps, a serious problem with Jews.
Read the full psst here.
The Attitude
Vogue China March 2011
Shot by: Giorgio Batu
Styling by: Yoyo Yao
Models: Ming Xi & Danni Li
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Hilary Alexander writing for the Telegraph:
Tales of success and excess, of artistic genius unbounded and venom unbridled, of tragedy surmounted and succumbed to, are endemic in the worlds of fashion and film and music. One only has to look at the implosion of careers such as Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Naomi Campbell and Mel Gibson.
The fashion world, with the first anniversary, this month, of Alexander McQueen's death by suicide, in 2010, is only too well aware of the pressures, stress and constant demands to deliver-the-goods that can lead to self-destruction; Madame Fashion is a brutal task-master. From Sophocles to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the book of quotations is full of dire warnings that those whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad.
What devils possessed Galliano we may never know. What private hell he is living through is equally unknowable.
But one thing is certain: he needs help. I am not for a moment excusing his behaviour. There will come a time when he must confront the viper in his breast. But, right now, this is a moment in his life when he needs support and love from the industry he has given his life to.
I disagree. I respect he's given his life to this industry. But This industry has given much to him in return. If anything I look at it this way: the industry has housed and given way for his personal interest/talent to flourish. No one owns him any favors. He should be grateful. The problem I see with these aging legends is that they have allowed their ego to grow beyond the necessary. Forgetting they are also human. Not gods. While I'll excuse an artists way of life, and the freedom they need to spit out their genius, there is a line that needs to be drawn. That line is drawn with the strands human dignity, kindness, and respect. Some men grow humble, some grow delusional.
Example. Valentino Garavani:
What can I say? An Oscar [for Valentino: The Last Emperor] would be an incredible crowning for an emperor.”
The Mood
Vogue China March 2011
Shot by: Xin Fan
Styling by: Cheryl Leung
Models: Danni Li & Bonnie Chen
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Jessica Stam's figure in this i-D image is marvelous. The combination of posture, proportions, and curves is stunning. [...]
Update: Billy just posted another view of the same image.
Update 2: Full editorial here.
- Elle Japan April 2011. Penelope Cruz by?
- Jalouse March 2011. Camille Rowe by?
- Madame Magazine March 2011. Ediely (Muse) by?
- Clin d’oeil Issue #? Sandra (Next Canada) by?
- Uptown March 2011. Thandie Newton by?
- Vogue Australia April 2011. Anja Rubik by Marcin Tyszka.
- Unit Magazine #11 Spring 2011. Izabel Goulart by André Schiliró.
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