covered stardom

The cover of US Vogue's June issue was made public yesterday and revealed that Blake Lively is once again made its cover. I didn't know if it was me or Blake had actually been in a lot of big magazine covers in the last months so I did some cover digging last night. She started appearing on W magazine in 2008 after being in Gossip Girl for just over a year. From then on, she was literally all over the place, starting with her not-so-age-appropriate Vogue cover in February 2009 and rounding it up to be the front of the American bible again next month. I can't really complain about this, as Blake is anything but unpleasant to the eye but reading Fashionista yesterday a very fair point was made by pointing out she is "not exactly modern American woman material".

I suppose Anna Wintour very much adores Blake's perfect body, which is why it kind of makes sense to choose Lively as the most suitable celebrity to sport swimwear. But still, American Vogue seems to be missing the point more often than not lately. We want to see something new, don't we?

I'm off.

PS. Look out for our Gossip Girl fashion special tomorrow!

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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.