Nicki Minaj is featured in the December issue of Vogue Italia doing 1) the classic O-face, 2) the classic model hunch, and 3) the classic smize. The images, which are pretty striking, were shot by Francesco Carrozzini. Her album, The Pinkprint, is due Dec. 15.
White model. Facepaint. African animals. Shot by Steven Meisel and starring Dutch model Saskia de Brauw, a fashion story titled "Abracadabra" in the March 2014 issue of Vogue Italia feels sadly familiar and offensive.
Steven Meisel shot Gisele Bündchen as a pampered society lady undergoing a variety of spa treatments — mani-pedi, Kim Kardashian-approved blood facial, cupping, some other shit we don't even recognize 'cause we're not pampered society ladies — for Vogue Italia's "Health and Beauty" issue.
Yeah, that one. This rejoinder comes courtesy of the good folks at Ladygunn magazine.
Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani — who is always so sensitive to mental health issues — delivered a long speech on eating disorders and body image at Harvard last night. Sozzani has posted the text online. Let's investigate!
Have you heard of rappers? You know — those people who perform "rap" music? Preeminent documentor of urban style Vogue Italia has! Vogue Italia knows from rap. Today on its Web site, Vogue "Slave Earrings" Italia lays down some old-school knowledge about rapper style, which the magazine explains was invented by noted…
It's been a while since we had a truly glorious Steven Meisel satire for a Vogue Italia cover editorial. In the past, the famous photographer has set his sights on celebrity rehab centers and extreme plastic surgery, but lately he's delivered more covers inspired by old movies and the 90s. Which is fine, but sometimes…
Franca Sozzani has finally spoken out about Vogue Italia's decision to pull one picture of Karlie Kloss in a twisty-pretzel pose from its web site. She says that she was wrong to un-publish the photo. "I believed I could avoid a pointless debate. I made a mistake," she admits. Sozzani now believes she it would have…
In the December issue of Vogue Italia, Steven Meisel shot the 19-year-old American model Karlie Kloss for the cover — and an 18-page editorial inside. Titled "Body by Kloss," it featured Kloss's first-ever nude work [link NSFW]. But it wasn't one of the nude shots that Vogue Italia decided to throw down the memory…
Kiris Pyrhonen and Audrey Marnay are life-sized wind-up-doll-puppet-toy-creatures in Tim Walker's latest 15-page editorial for Vogue Italia. This is far from a new idea for a fashion editorial to explore — but Walker executes it beautifully.
The Vogue brand is no stranger to offensive missteps. In the past we've seen French Vogue do blackface, American Vogue portray LeBron James as King Kong, and Indian Vogue put a Fendi bib on an impoverished child. However, Vogue Italia always seemed a bit more enlightened than its sister publications. Just three years…
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…
Vogue Italia editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani runs a web portal, Vogue Black, dedicated to black women and fashion, issued a famous all-black issue, and has recently put Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Jay-Z on the covers of her magazine and its counterpart, L'uomo Vogue. So Sozzani's a little pissed that Liz Jones didn't call…
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.
The Internet loves a good game of This Thing Looks Like That Thing. Today's players? Vogue Paris, Vogue Italia, Emmanuelle Alt, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, and Steven Meisel. The charge is that Alt, the recently-installed editor of Vogue Paris, ripped off her latest cover editorial from a 1989 Linda Evangelista …
Vogue Italia is at it again: the May issue of the magazine features a 15-page Ellen von Unwerth editorial intended as a "Tribute to Black Beauties."
For the first time since its famous all-black issue of July, 2008, Italian Vogue has printed a magnificent 17-page editorial, featuring twelve black models. The story is definitely reaching for a languid, finger-curled, Harlem Renaissance feeling. Let's explore.
In a series of ghostly Vogue covers, every 2010 cover in each edition is layered into a single image, revealing the gulf between the formulaic approach of the majority of editions and the more experimental nature of a select few.
