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Knicker-tastic

Tags: Beyonce, Dazed & Confused, Glastonbury

Love Magazine issue #6: Super natural

Love Magazine has just revealed their covers for issue 6. The issue will have eight different covers, featuring both super models and young Hollywood starlets. The theme for the covers is “super natural” and the images were shot by Mert & Marcus. Personally, I think these are amongst the best fashion covers I have seen for quite some time. If I had to pick one, I would probably pick the cover with Mariacarla as my favourite. Which one do you prefer?

Elle Fanning

Chloe Moretz

Hailee Steinfeld

Daphne Groeneveld

Nyasha Matonhodze

Lara Stone

Mariacarla Boscono

Kristen McMenamy

Photographers: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
Editor: Katie Grand
Makeup: Kirstin Piggott
Hair: Ashley Javier

Source: Models.com

Tags: Chloe Moretz, Daphne Groeneveld, Elle Fanning, Hailee Steinfeld, Kristen McMenamy, Lara Stone, Marcus Piggott, Mariacarla Boscono, Mert Alas, Nyasha Matonhodze

It’s Britney, B*tch!

Christina Aguilera isn’t the only former pop princess who’s gracing a major fashion cover this month, Alexi Lubomirski has shot none other than Britney Spears for the cover of US Harper’s Bazaar.

So, what side are you on? Who did it best, Team Christina or Team Britney?

Tags: Britney Spears

Reborn like a Virgin Mary

W magazine July cover with Christina Aguilera – after being a raw kid, then a woman, after marriage and divorce, this angelic look of her couldn’t be any more suitable.

Tags: Christina Aguilera, W magazine

Belated Happy Halloween

I don’t normally post anything for Halloween, but this Vogue Nippon beauty cover is just too genius. The ring, the cherry and the vampire…Happy Halloween…belated!

Tags: Halloween, Vogue Nippon

模界大姐大 刘雯 Liu Wen

My favourite 2 oriental personalities in fashion world, one is everyone knows…Alexander Wang, and the other one is Liu Wen, whom I have introduced in previous post. Liu Wen is at the moment the number 1 model not only in China but the hottest oriental model. Here Grazia China had invited her as their cover girl and did a full interview with herself and her family and friends.

Must say, a good model should have a face easily transformed into any look, but at the same time has strong facial features without being flooded and buried under layers of make-ups and hairs. Liu Wen is exactly that type, so does Kate Moss and Cindy Crawford.

Here it says, Liu Wen is not just a famous model, she has become a true celebrity.

With her mum and dad… In the interview, her parents described her as a quiet teenage, shy but strong…

I really love this look…the hair, the eye-shadow and the cropped top…

Tags: Liu Wen

The September Covers 2010 – Part 1

It’s that time of the year again. Last week the September issues of some of the world’s leading fashion magazines hit the newsstands. The September issue is usually the thickest issue of the year. Since the recession the magazines might perhaps not be the door stoppers they used to be just a few years ago (the September issue of US Vogue in 2007 for instance had 840 pages), but the issues still have a decent amount of pages.

I’ve always been fascinated by how the magazines present the most important issue of the year and have to admit that I do judge the magazine by the cover. For this post I’ve taken a look at the covers of some of the leading British fashion magazines. I will try to do more reviews in a couple of weeks when the French, Italian, American and other international editions of these magazines have launched their September issues.

First magazine up in this review of the September covers is British Vogue, which features Kate Moss on the cover. Kate Phelan has done the styling and the photographer is Patrick Demarchelier. The fact that British Vogue has used Kate on the cover doesn’t really come as a surprise. This is Kate’s 30th British Vogue cover and it’s the 6th time she’s on the cover of their September issue. The issue weighs in at 380 pages. What I really like about the cover is that for once Vogue is going for a full body shot.

Kate Moss on cover of British Vogue, September 2010

More covers from Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, i-D and Vanity Fair after the jump.

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Tags: Cedric Buchet, Emily Blunt, Gisele Bündchen, kate moss, Kate Phelan, Lady Gaga, Matthias Vriens-McGrath, Naomi Campbell, nick knight, Nicola Formichetti, Patrick Demarchelier, Sophia Neophitou-Apostolou

Cover clash of the titans

Ever gone to a party only to discover that someone else there is wearing the exact same outfit as you? Something of those sorts has happened in the world of fashion glossies recently.

A few days ago The Guardian wrote about how the August editions of arch rivals British Vogue and Elle UK both feature variations of “the same dress” from Miu Miu (it’s not actually the same, just two very similar styles from the same collection). To make matters worse, “the same dress” was also featured on the cover of the July* edition of W magazine.

Several bloggers and newspapers have picked up the story. Today, however, I stumbled upon this blog entry on Stylebrity and guess what dress is featured on the August cover of Elle Sweden…

The August cover of Swedish Elle, featuring Mona Johannesson, photographed by Jimmy Backius

*I think the article in the Guardian says the August issue of W, but it’s actually the July issue.

Photo source: tFS and Fashionising

Tags: ELLE, Eva Mendes, Freja Beha Erichsen, Lily Allen, Mona Johannesson, Vogue, W

The 10 best fashion covers this decade

While we’re on the subject of magazine covers, this brilliant discussion thread on tFS made me think about some of my favourite fashion covers from the past 10 years. Here’s a small collection of some of our favourite ones. We’ve tried to choose only one from each year.

First row features Vogue Russia (2001), Kate Moss in Dior for British Vogue (2006) and Kate Moss for Numéro France in 2004 (this cover was reprinted three years later for the first issue of Numéro Korea). The second row features Kate Moss for Vogue Paris (2005). This was one of four covers, all featuring Kate. The next cover is from V Magazine (2009) and features style diva Grace Jones. The third and last is the first issue of British Vogue in 2000 – The Gold Issue. The last issue in 1999 was silver. Third row features Vogue Italia (2007), The Face with Stella McCartney and Vogue Paris (2008) with Kate and Naomi.

And the favourite cover from this decade? Find out after the jump!

Tags: grace jones, kate moss, nick knight, stella mccartney

Hey Helena

So glad to see a real model on magazine cover these days instead of those familiar Hollywood faces. 

Especially ELLE these days seems only with actress on cover, even more artistic magazines like Vogue and Numero are constantly having non-model covers. Therefore, January issue of ELLE looks ‘fresh face’. I always like Helena Christensen, think she’s the ultimate first model who doesn’t just own a pretty face. She’s an thoughtful photographer,Her exhibition A Quiet Story, curated by Jim Cook, premiered in Rotterdam in 2006. Chanel Tokyo’s NEXUS Gallery is scheduled to mount the exhibition in 2010. Also an edgy boutique owner, Christensen has an antiques shop in Manhattan and sells some of her clothes in her mother’s Yo-Yo Second Hand Shop in Christianshavn. She was a part of Nylon magazine as the original creative director. 

Since so many Hollywood actress are continuously branding their ‘cool’ by claiming ‘addiction to sex’, her quote is actually quite amusing…’Whenever my head is like a maze, I turn to the easy things in life, the things that mean the most to me: Sex and cheese. These things are connected. Truth be told, I love all cheese’. Simply brilliant!!!

Tags: ELLE, Helena Christensen, Numero, Nylon, Vogue