Vogue Italia Editor Admits Fashion is 'One Of The Causes' of Anorexia

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!

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Vogue Italia Would Like to Tell You About the Hot New Trend of ‘Rapper …

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 M.C.…

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High Fashion Takes On QVC

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…

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Vogue Italia Defends Those Weird Karlie Kloss Pictures

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 been…

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Why Did Vogue Italia Nix An Image From Karlie Kloss's Nude Editorial?

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 hole.

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Dreamy New Vogue Italia Editorial Features Puppets

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.



It really wouldn't be a Walker shoot if there weren't a couple random,…

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Italian Vogue Features Unbelievably Racist 'Slave Earrings' [Updated]

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…

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Plus-Size Model On Plus-Size Issue Of Italian Vogue: "We Need Fashion…

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…

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Brazilians Push For 20% Black Model Quota

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 her …

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