Grazia Australia Editorial - Cabin Fever

This is one of my favourite editorials, mostly because it's fun, decadent and I love flying. I also wish this kind of luxe O.T.T. glamour was my life, sadly I'll be economy when I go to New York. Still, a girl can dream from the cheap seats. 

Mark Vassallo, the stylist behind these images works with Grazia Australia often and I always seem to love his work - the aesthetic is glossy, commercial, sexy and knowing. 

I love receiving copies of Grazia from Oz when my brother sends / brings them over. Grazia in the UK is great for shopping and celebs, but I've only ever rated about 2 editorials in all the years they've been publishing. 

Cabin Fever

Grazia Australia March 29 2010 

Photography - Harold David

Styling - Mark Vassallo 

New Editor in Chief at Paris Vogue

Congratulations to Emmanuelle Alt. She has been appointed Editor in Chief of Paris Vogue following Carine Roitfeld's resignation. I am looking forward to a magazine under Emmanuelle's vision because I must confess I find her totally bad ass sexy imagery much more appealing and challenging than Carine's sexy, have I shocked you yet? editorials. 

This is my favourite editorial by Emmanuelle Alt - Fur Play. It features Raquel Zimmerman, was photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin and appeared in Paris Vogue November 2009. 

Inez Van Lamsweerde in The Gentlewoman

I picked up The Gentlewoman magazine yesterday whilst I was browsing in WHSmith to escape the pouring rain of London town. The cover featured Inez Van Lamsweerde, fashion photographer and one half of the Dutch duo Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin. Since speed reading the article I have been looking back through past issues of Paris Vogue, where their work features heavily and this editorial captured me. I love the sculptural shapes of the models, the beach backdrop almost rendered useless as if it is artificial, and the eye popping colour. Well, these things and the fact they're just darn pretty images to look at. 

I will be trotting off to Smiths later to actually buy the mag and have a proper read of the interview. 

Images from Paris Vogue March 2007, Soleil de Minut

Photography - Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

Styling Emmanuelle Alt

Sissy Vian for Vogue Nippon

I love collecting fashion pics and storing them for inspiration. But editorials are a bit like listening to an album versus a single - it's the whole concept and mood, not just one moment of brilliance. 


These images are from an editorial in the June issue of Vogue Nippon with Devon Aoki (who just gets better and better), shot by Camilla Akrans and styled by Sissy Vian, whose work I can only find in Vogue Nippon so far. I love buying Vogue Nippon, but only usually get it when a) I'm in Japan or b) I'm feeling flush enough in the Japan Centre here in London to spend almost £15 on it. Gulp! 

20ans Emmanuelle Alt Editorial - Cat Woman

This is one of my favourite editorials of old. It's from a French mag called 20ans, that these days looks a bit like Company magazine, but 10 years ago was more like a cross between Dazed & Confused and Cosmopolitan - fashion, lifestyle, friends, street style, sex etc. 

I had a few precious copies of 20ans in the late 1990's that I would go back to over and over again. I loved this editorial and still do - the model, messed up sexiness and the playfulness (I'm a sucker for the image where she's eating the last feather).  What got me was that many of the editorials from 20ans had a slummy student flat as the background, or models rolling around in a bed with McDonald's cartons everywhere. In my late teens these were images that one could relate / aspire to - the thrill of being independent and rebelling against everything your parents drilled into you. 

Magazine - 20ans 

Stylist - Emmanuelle Alt 

Photographer - Terry Richardson

Now you see me... Now you don't...

 

Clothes: customised denim from charity shops & painted white
Shoes (throughout shoot): Christian Louboutin S/S 08

All photos -  Leigh Keily 
Model - Barbara @ ???

My Fantasy Beach Break

London is a sweltering pseudo sauna at the moment. City living and temperatures above 30 degrees really don't work for me. The tube becomes an even more effective torture device than before and shops begin to resemble Native American sweat lodges (I'm talking about you, Topshop Oxford Circus...half the city's female population spend their cash there and you STILL can't have a decent air con system?).

My point is that I want to be on a beach. I don't care if it's the Gower in Wales, Margate, somewhere more chic like St Tropez, or bordering on the exotic. I just need fresh sea air, a chance to swim and some sand that will stubbornly stick to every item of clothing and baggage to remind me of a great summer escape. 

Of course, wherever I go I will be channeling this great editorial in Vogue Paris from July 2007. It's styled by Emmanuelle Alt and photographed by Peter Lindbergh. 

Box Fresh Fashion

I know, I know...this is my second editorial post of late, but editorials are taking over my life at the moment, and this is pretty much my favourite one of this year so far. It's Pop S/S 2010 and I love it. I keep on trying to post the whole thing but each time blogger crashes - maybe it's personal? 

Emmanuelle Alt & my Parisian Dreams

I love Emmanuelle Alt's work for Paris Vogue. This is one of my favourite editorials ever and was blu tacked to my kitchen cupboards of my old flat for 4 years ('Toute Allure' from 2005 I think photographed by Terry Richardson) - how badly does this make you want to be in Paris? The next time I hop onto the Eurostar I'm making sure these are the kind of looks that have inspired my packing.

Recently for the fashion styling course I'm doing I looked back through all the old editorials I've ripped out over the years and realised that I'd been obsessed with Emmanuelle for ages without joining the dots. In the late 90's she worked for 20ans a French magazine that I always bought when I crossed the Channel, and lo and behold, it was her work even then that I was cutting and keeping for inspiration - I'll post those later...