What It Feels Like For A (Glamour) Girl
September
Vogue jumps out on the news stand for all the wrong reasons. On her fourth cover in three years, Keira Knightley's hair looks reminiscent of a baby primate (though not in a cute way), her pose is all wrong for the Balenciaga she's wearing, and her expression has a whiff of self-consciousness and striverdom about it — like some vogueing drag queen's idea of a
Vogue cover. Which means the stuff inside must be doubleplusungood! Although my esteemed colleague, Dodai, has already
brought you
two of the issue’s more bizarre contributions to the fall fashion discourse, fear not! There’s still plenty left to see from the summit of the fall ladymag pileup. Keira Knightley in Berlin, Sasha Pivovarova in scarlet and alabaster Alexander McQueen, Caroline Trentini in the only Caroline-jumps-for-Condé editorial that has ever made any sense, and what the cover shot would be if this were a
real fashion magazine, as we take deep breaths, don sensible footwear, and scale, together, Mount
Vogue, after the jump.
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