Compulsive Viewing

Vogue Italia brings out the closet home shopper in us all with a satirical tongue-in-cheek editorial for the January 2012 issue featuring a cast of established models. Steven Meisel shoots Joan Smalls, Sigrid Agren, Natasha Poly, Daria Strokous, Caroline Trentini, Karlie Kloss and Gertrud Hegelund in the Spring/Summer 2012 collections from Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Versace and others. The juxtaposition of the screen blurbs, the plastic fantastic QVC presenters and the straight off the runway garments injects this editorial with a dose humour that is so bad it's good.

Sigrid Agren, Joan Smalls, Natasha Poly, Daria Strokous,
& Caroline Trentini
Vogue Italia - January 2012
Photographer - Steven Meisel
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Gertrud Hegelund & Karlie Kloss
Vogue Italia - January 2012
Photographer - Steven Meisel
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Sigrid Agren, Daria Strokous & Natasha Poly
Vogue Italia - January 2012
Photographer - Steven Meisel
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Joan Smalls & Caroline Trentini
Vogue Italia - January 2012
Photographer - Steven Meisel
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Caroline Trentini, Karlie Kloss & Daria Strokous
Vogue Italia - January 2012
Photographer - Steven Meisel
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Joan Smalls & Natasha Poly
Vogue Italia - January 2012
Photographer - Steven Meisel
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Joan Smalls & Natasha Poly
Vogue Italia - January 2012
Photographer - Steven Meisel
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Dream Team

American Vogue ups the ante for its September issue with an incredible cast of models assembled for a Steven Meisel editorial. Veterans Caroline Trentini, Coco Rocha, Raquel Zimmermann and Jourdan Dunn mash it up with relative newcomers Fei Fei Sun, Mirte Maas, Arizona Muse and Daria Strokous. The spread entitled "Playing to Type" features the Meisel's favourite faces in a myriad of looks based on five distinct personalities; the Romantics, the Modernists, the Artisans, the Bourgeoisie and the Subversives. With styling by Grace Coddington and hair and make-up courtesy of Guido Palau and Pat McGrath, it's no wonder this editorial delivers on every level.

The Modernists

The Subversives

The Artisans

The Romantics

The Bourgeoisie
US Vogue - September 2011
Photographer - Steven Meisel
Source - models.com

Paradise Found

Riccardo Tisci delivers another stunning haute couture collection for Givenchy with ten looks inspired by Paradise. In his own words Tisci's focus for this collection were "Purity, lightness and fragility", hence the heavenly gowns constructed from silk tulle and gauzy lace, painstakingly embellished with hand curled feathers, tiger's eye pearls and silvery grey caviar beads.

Tisci's dreamy couture vision was projected by a celestial cast of models including Iselin Steiro, Kasia Struss, Joan Smalls, Izabel Goulart, Saskia de Brauw, Daphne Groeneveld, Zuzanna Bijoch, Maria Carla Boscono, Valeryia and Caroline Trentini. Tisci's eclectic mix of established faces and newly appointed stars of tomorrow will no doubt have a casting directors and magazine editors paying close attention.

Birds of Paradise

Joan Smalls

Iselin Steiro

Izabel Goulart

Daphne Groeneveld

Zuzanna Bijoch

Kasia Struss

Saskia de Brauw

Caroline Trentini

Maria Carla Boscono

Valeryia

Images courtesy of Givenchy
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Latina Beauty

V Spain unveils it's Top Ten Latina Beauties in an editorial shot by Sebastian Faena. Joan Smalls, Isabeli Fontana, Caroline Trentini, Izabel Goulart, Rose Cordero, Tati Cotliar, Elsa Benitez, Alessandra Ambrosio and Arlenis Sosa amongst others, feature in the series of coloured, and black and white portraits. Hailing from Argentina, Brazil, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Mexico, the models selected aptly represent the diversity of Latina beauty. 

Isabeli Fontana

Joan Smalls

Arlenis Sosa

Rose Cordero

Caroline Trentini

Izabel Goulart

Alessandra Ambrosio
V Spain - Issue 9
Photographer - Sebastian Faena
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