Italian Vogue, the fashion glossy known for courting controversy (sometimes with shocking insensitivity) is at it again — this time, the magazine is raising awareness for violence against women by having models pose as high-fashion horror movie victims, screaming helplessly as they're threatened with various weapons.…
Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani is (naturally) defending her magazine's controversial current cover story, which features a cast of top models in outlandish wigs and hair pieces and gold grills toting babies, eating fast food, and taking pictures of themselves with their jeweled cell phones. The fact that many of…
Earlier this month, three plus-sized models landed the cover of Vogue Italia. Velvet d'Amour — the plus-sized actress, model and photographer who famously walked the runway at the Jean Paul Gaultier show in Paris in 2006 — has some thoughts about the issue, and the fact that the women aren't actually wearing much in…
Even if you take just a quick glance at Tara Lynn, Candice Huffine and Robyn Lawley on the June issue of Vogue Italia, you can tell that these women are not the typical gazelle-slender models. Lynn is a size 16; Huffine is a 12; Lawley is a 14. Three plus-size models, on the fashiony-est fashion magazine in the world.
[Seems that someone is more interested in what the editor of Italian Vogue, Franca Sozzani, has to say. At the Gucci show. Milan, September 2. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]
Since cycle 15 of America's Next Top Model premieres tonight, we were invited to an "intimate champagne breakfast" this morning with Tyra Banks and André Leon Talley. The event was kind of like speed-dating. But with smizing!
Guys, I was on BBC radio today talking about Steven Meisel's oil-drenched Vogue Italia shoot — and so was editor Franca Sozzani. Check out this link, and fast forward to about 26:30, where the discussion begins.
This changes everything. Do we know Franca Sozzani's stance on smizing? [Twitter]
The good news? Vogue Italia's new websites embrace black people and curvy models. The bad news? Vogue Black and Vogue Curvy are two separate sites, sequestered from the main Vogue Italia homepage.
[Miami, January 21. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]
This ten-page Italian Vogue editorial from February, 2006, features two Caucasian models made up to look like black women. The photographer? A certain Steven Klein.
That's what Salon's Judy Berman wants to know, re: Rihanna's Italian Vogue Shoot. Most of her poses are strong, but in one, she's muzzled. [Salon, HuffPo, This Is 50]
Last year, Italian Vogue shook the fashion world with its "All Black issue, which sold out on many newsstands. This year, the July issue features Kristen McMenamy on the cover, but comes with a delightful supplement devoted to black Barbies.
The news that '90s supermodel Karen Mulder was arrested in Paris for making death threats to her plastic surgeon could be written off as, at worst, a punchline, or at best, the latest expression of an unbalanced woman's erratic behavior.
This "Vagaries Of Fashion" spread from Italian Vogue — seen on Sociological Images — is the third "neglectful mom" shoot we've seen from a fashion magazine this year.
Sometimes, for a scintillating editorial, you don't need a fancy concept, or references to some old movie. You don't require a "narrative." You just need a good model, a good photographer, and some crazy clothes.
