Kate Moss, Daria Werbowy & Lara stone cover the September issue of Vogue Paris
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It is such a relief, after the American and British September covers, to see that at least some people still know what they are doing. Instead of going for an over-the-top cover Emmanuelle Alt has taken the most essential F/W basic – black – and put it in the hands of Mert & Marcus and modelled by Kate Moss, Daria Werbowy and Lara Stone. If this isn't a subtle and chic way of going grand for September I don't know what is.

I am very excited not only to see the 64 pages of the three girls' editorial inside but also to see more of the new artistic direction, which you know I am generally quite fussy about. I gather it will feature "a cleaner, airier design, with remodeled typography and the use of a craft-paper-like brown background — both of which hark back to its look in the Sixties and Seventies.". Sounds pretty good to me. So far I love the fact that all 3 covers are identical and the girls have simply been put in the gap. It makes a really fun gif!

What do you think of the Vogue Paris September covers?

Lara Stone covers the new Vogue Turkey
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As you know I am currently obsessed with some of the newer fashion magazines from around the world – Harper's Bazaar Spain, Vogue Turkey, Vogue Brazil, ELLE Ukraine, Vogue Netherlands... They have all been producing incredible content over the last few months. Sometimes even better than some of the more popular titles.
This month I am in love with the April double cover of Vogue Turkey. Lara Stone hasn't looked this good since last August when she covered Vogue Paris. The best part of the covers and stories inside is that they have seen that there are two sides to Lara that really work – the clean-faced natural beauty and the over-the-top vamp. So they have devoted each other stories and covers to her two personas.
I have to say that, at least this time around, my favourite is the 80's story of bold colours. It has been done in such a chic and sophisticated way I would have said it came from Vogue Paris had I not known otherwise. Scroll down and click on read more to see what I mean.

Vogue Paris

I've been hesitating between posting the new cover of American Vogue with Sarah Jessica Parker in Burberry or the August cover of Vogue Paris. Eventually, I've gone for the latter because I really did not like SJP's one and I was once told that if you don't have anything nice to say is better to say nothing. A rule that I normally don't follow but hey, it's Vogue Paris.
I first chuckled when I saw the plane because, really, why would you put a plane on a cover? "Le best de la rentrée" gives the issue a sort of a theme and starts to make sense of the cover. Although I'm not sure of whether Lara Stone (shot by Inez & Vinoodh) has just come back from her holiday (plane leaves) and so she starts prepping for the new season or if she just arrived to the beach for her holiday and that's why the plane leaves.
The fact is that, whether the idea behind the cover composition is BS or not Emmanuelle Alt is at least trying something different. I really love the styling, very Vogue Paris, and how the black outfit really contrasts with the beach landscape.

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It's Spring in Paris

It's that time of the month again when new magazine covers and storied start surfacing. Vogue Paris (surprise, surprise) is among them and I am in awe of their über-colourful cover. Lara Stone (again, surprise) presents the issue dressed in some of the genius Louis Vuitton collection for SS11. The cover also promises some private time with Colin ("Colin Firth en privé") and it includes their Spring/Summer collections special. And that's exactly the feature I am most excited about, as no other Vogue does the one-look-per-designer editorials like the French do.

Part of their 65 looks of summer special is an editorial featuring also Lara Stone and Sasha Pivovarova shot my Mario Sorrenti (yes, surprise again) and styled by Emmanuelle, Jane How and Carine. I realised this is most likely the last work as both editor and stylist we'll ever see from Carine, which is terribly upsetting but also slightly exciting.

What do you think of the issue?
I'm off.

PS. All the "surprise" in this post are meant to be pronounced in French.
[Pictures: TFS]

quatre-vingt-dix

When I first heard that Vogue Paris was throwing a masquerade ball to celebrate their 90th anniversary I simply thought of a chic party with the best crowd in a decadently glamourous venue and the odd mask. What I didn't know was that it would take place during Paris Fashion Week and that most of its guests would take the theme seriously. Following the inspiration from the magazine's October issue, many models and editors showed up in lace masks paired up with sexy dresses with hints of baroque. Everybody was there and the Vogue Paris team tweeted themselves silly. Tweets like "Emmanuelle Alt et Peter Dundas dansent joue contre joue sur la piste de danse"* or "Emmanuelle Alt danse avec Anja Rubik sur la piste"** made it sound like the party of the century. Or, at least, my party of the century. But nothing, not Carine as a leopard or Julia as a vamp or Olivier Lalanne, were a match for Anna dello Russo. The queen and muse of all things fashion did what she does best: dress up. She wore a custom Pucci white dress (kudos to Peter Dundas) that she accompanied with a long white wig and mask in the same colour. The final touch was an incredible Trojan inspired feathered head piece by Gareth Pugh. Talk about decadent.

I'm off.

* "Emmanuelle Alt and Peter Dundas dance cheek to cheek on the dancefloor"
** "Emmanuelle Alt dances with Anja Rubik on the dancefloor"

[Pictures: Vogue.fr, JustJared.buzznet.com, Vogue.com, TFS]

i wake up and only look at pictures

Today I woke up and realised I hadn't seen any of the SS10 new advertorial campaigns. Something that is quite weird in me as I like having seen every single shot before they get splashed across the first pages of Vogue. I only found Lanvin (love the movement) and Louis Vuitton (so glad they ditched Madonna for Lara Stone) but give me some credit, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday morning and the wine didn't stop coming last night. On the way, I found these amazing pictures by Karl Lagerfeld that are part of the calendar he has created for Italian Marie Claire taking inspiration from Italian cinema and featuring Ana Mouglalis and Baptiste Giabiconi —Nine, anyone?
[Credits: WWD.com]

I'm off.