<![CDATA[Jezebel: photo shoot]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: photo shoot]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/photoshoot http://jezebel.com/tag/photoshoot <![CDATA[Lady Gaga + Hello Kitty = Crazy Cat Lady]]> The woman continues to make interesting choices. In this awesome Markus Klinko & Indrani photo shoot, she, er, plays with the pussy. Additional images after the jump. [Best Week Ever, ONTD, Gaga Daily]



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<![CDATA[Marie Claire's "Outlaw" Look: $13,000 Gown & Black Lipstick]]> The May issue of Marie Claire has a fashion shoot that really pinpoints my love/hate relationship with fashion magazines. I get that they're selling a fantasy, which is why you'll find a microscopic raffia bikini on a Estonian girl standing by an African waterhole with a hyena, or an elaborate evening gown being whipped by the winds in the middle of the desert. It's not supposed to be realistic; it's supposed to look cool. When it's done correctly, the results are inspiring. Done incorrectly? I ask, politely, WTF? This "Prairie Tale" shoot is problematic: I "get it" but I just don't like it. It's not the kind of fantasy I want to live. Check the high-waisted pants and pioneer-chic blouses, after the jump.



MARIECLAIREoutlaw042108.jpg"Rowdy, romantic outlaw chic" means $840 Gucci shoes. Can one actually walk on sand with those heels? Where's the covered wagon when you need it?

MARICLAIREoutlawTWO042108.jpgIf only the pioneers had had retro radios.

MARIECLAIREoutlawTHREE04210.jpgHere's the $13,000 gown! There is something darkly beautiful about it, but would a gothic castle would have been a better backdrop? Too predictable? Seeing this dress in stark bright daylight doesn't seem right.

marieclaireoutlawFOUR042108.jpgIs it okay to wear fishnets while horseback riding? Is it okay to wear a $1400 necklace while horseback riding?

mariclaireoutlawFIVE042108.jpgDress: $5,320. Shoes: $790. Stockings: $120. Shooting Prada so close to a horse's ass: Priceless.

mariclaireSIX042108.jpgI was going to make a joke about the model being mauled to death, but it seemed too grisly. Heh. Sorry.

MARIECLAIREoutlawSEVEN04210.jpgDress, $5,060; top, $2,330; Roberto Cavalli. Model Anna Kuchinka says, "If I weren't a model I would be a clinical psychologist." Maybe she can help us process why that Cavalli blouse is more than an airline ticket to Italy?

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Earlier: Marie Claire's Vietnam Photo Shoot: Apocalypse Wow
Marie Claire's Oh-So-Realistic Trailer Park Photo Shoot
Marie Claire & The 75-Year-Old Bhutanese Model
'Marie Claire' Editors Went To Italy And All They Got Was This Awesome Photo Shoot

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<![CDATA[French Vogue: The Wind Beneath Our Wings]]> Despite all the stupid stuff that gets published in women's magazines, sometimes what's found on the printed page can be unexpectedly enjoyable. Just open the April issue of Vogue Paris, and check out the "Dans Le Vent" (in the wind) shoot by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Bright blue sky, fluttering dresses, sunshine! Inspiration! A breath of fresh air! Poetry in motion! It will take all of your will power not to drop everything and move to the Mediterranean to take modern dance. Some images from the shoot — paired with the poetry of Emily Dickinson (it just seemed like a good idea) — after the jump.





FRENCHVOGUEWINDone041608.jpgThe wind tapped like a tired man,
And like a host, "Come in,"
I boldly answered; entered then
My residence within

A rapid, footless guest,
To offer whom a chair
Were as impossible as hand
A sofa to the air.

frenchvoguewindTWO041608.jpgNo bone had he to bind him,
His speech was like the push
Of numerous humming-birds at once

His countenance a billow,
His fingers, if he pass,
Let go a music, as of tunes
Blown tremulous in glass.

He visited, still flitting;
Then, like a timid man,
Again he tapped—'t was flurriedly—
And I became alone.

(From Nature)

frenchvoguewindTHREE041608.jpgOf all the sounds despatched abroad,
There's not a charge to me
Like that old measure in the boughs,
That phraseless melody

The wind does, working like a hand
Whose fingers brush the sky,
Then quiver down, with tufts of tune
Permitted gods and me.

frenchvoguewindFOUR041608.jpgWhen winds go round and round in bands,
And thrum upon the door,
And birds take places overhead,
To bear them orchestra,

I crave him grace, of summer boughs,
If such an outcast be,
He never heard that fleshless chant
Rise solemn in the tree,

As if some caravan of sound
On deserts, in the sky,
Had broken rank,
Then knit, and passed
In seamless company.

(From Nature)

frenchvogueFIVE041608.jpgThe wind begun to rock the grass
With threatening tunes and low,—
He flung a menace at the earth,
A menace at the sky.

The leaves unhooked themselves from trees
And started all abroad;
The dust did scoop itself like hands
And throw away the road.

The wagons quickened on the streets,
The thunder hurried slow;
The lightning showed a yellow beak,
And then a livid claw.

The birds put up the bars to nests,
The cattle fled to barns;
There came one drop of giant rain,
And then, as if the hands

That held the dams had parted hold,
The waters wrecked the sky
But overlooked my father's house,
lust quartering a tree.

(The Wind Begun To Rock The Grass)

frenchvoguewindSIX041608.jpgThe daisy follows soft the sun,
And when his golden walk is done,
Sits shyly at his feet.
He, waking, finds the flower near.
"Wherefore, marauder, art thou here?"
"Because, sir, love is sweet!"

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We are the flower, Thou the sun!
Forgive us, if as days decline,
We nearer steal to Thee, —
Enamoured of the parting west,
The peace, the flight, the amethyst,
Night's possibility!

(From Time And Eternity)


Earlier: Bon Joor, C'est Paris LOLVogue Encore!
What's The Message Behind A Black Man In Heels On The Cover Of Vogue?
French Vogue: Now With More Bearded Drag Queens
Olivier Theyskens Totally Naked in French Vogue: Hot or Not?
Mon Dieu! C'est French LOLVogue: Shoulders, Champagne and Cigarettes
French 'Vogue': Devil Worship Is The New Black!

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<![CDATA[Marie Claire's Vietnam Photo Shoot: Apocalypse Wow]]> Ah, to be a fashion editor at Marie Claire! The photo shoots! So global! Recently, they've been in Bhutan, Italy, and, um, a trailer park. For the April issue, the magazine booked a trip to Vietnam, to shoot spring neutrals. The photographs, by Richard Mazzucco, are absolutely gorgeous, but just a wee bit somber. Well, it is Vietnam, right? On the one hand, arranging a photo shoot there means bringing money into the economy. On the other hand, the average yearly per capita income (around $726) is less than a Donna Karan skirt. Why did the editors pick this location for a shoot? "The simple grandeur of Vietnam's Ha Long Bay seems a fitting backdrop to fashion's elegant minimalism: soft-edge architectural shapes in textured silks and barely there colors. Very zen." Dreamy images of rocks, water and a $1,900 skirt, after the jump.







MCvietnam040208.jpgSee those flyaways? Someone needs Frizz-Ease. Dress, $818, Lorena Calma.

mcvietnamTWO040208.jpgWater, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.
Vest, $338, top, $208, skirt, $218, BCBG MaxAzria Runway; belt, $178, BCBG MaxAzria.

mcvietnamTHREE040208.jpgDress, $2,460, Bottega Veneta. Flight from New York City to Ho Chi Min City via Kayak.com, $1,172.

mcvietnamFOUR040208.jpgSomeone's got her eye on that bicycle, because someone's shoes hurt so bad she needs to sit down. Also, someone wishes this shoot were on the beach in Thailand instead.

mcvietnamFIVE040208.jpgIf you look very very very closely you can see the aforementioned Donna Karan Collection skirt, a bargain at $1,895. The top is $595, the belt is $695, also from Donna Karan collection. You can get a custom-made silk dress in Saigon for around $65.

mcvietnamSIX040208.jpgSpring has sprung, why are you so glum? Depressing. Beautiful, but depressing.

VIETNAMSEVEN040208.jpg"This Zac Posen dress is price upon request, which means you can't afford it," she whispered, as she contemplated plunging into the unforgiving waves.

Earlier: Marie Claire's Oh-So-Realistic Trailer Park Photo Shoot
Marie Claire & The 75-Year-Old Bhutanese Model
'Marie Claire' Editors Went To Italy And All They Got Was This Awesome Photo Shoot

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<![CDATA[LOLVogue: Teh Hare Toss & Teh Bunnee Hop]]> Have you heard? There's a new issue of Vogue. Wait! This post isn't about the possibly offensive cover or the Best Bodies photo shoot. This is about the LOL. More specifically, LOLcats and their ilk, LOLhedgehogs, LOLbarbecues, LOLgators and so on. That's right, it's time for another beyond-stoopid LOLVogue. We're in ur magazeen, puttin werds on ur moddles, after the jump.













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Earlier: LOLVogue: Tard Moddles & Bahlinceeyagga
LOLVogue: Sheez Over Ayteen, I Sware
LOLVogue: Hungry Moddles & Rorschach Tests
Bon Joor, C'est Paris LOLVogue Encore!
LOLVogue: Carbs, Botox & Pink-Eye
LOLVogue: Good Help Is Hard To Find
Mon Dieu! C'est French LOLVogue: Shoulders, Champagne and Cigarettes
LOLVogue: Starving Models & Marionettes
LOL'Vogue': Scarves, Silverware & Scooters

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