Editorial Watch

Warning: image heavy.
This is a month old, but I'm sure we can all still appreciate it's magnificence.

L'hiver avant l'hiver
photographed by David Sims for Vogue Paris August 2010

Vogue Paris takes a look at the fall collections with a mega-sized 65 page cover shoot photographed by David Sims. Through the combined efforts of Carine Roitfeld and Emmanuelle Alt, models Freja Beha Erichsen, Iselin Steiro, Joan Smalls, Dara Werbowy, Isabeli Fontana, Crystal Renn, Frida Gustavsson, Aline Weber and Monika Jagaciak don pieces from fashion’s biggest names including Marc Jacobs, Chanel and Alexander McQueen. It is truly a visit into fashion paradise with Sims’ L’hiver Avant L’hiver.

Many, many more after the jump.

Editorial Watch

Sophie Srej (with two unknown models)
photographed by Wendy Bevan for June Marie Claire Italia

styling Elisabetta Massari

Like old postcards, no?
Beautiful and haunting at the same time.


Romany

[photos courtesy of fashiongonerogue.com]

Editorial Watch

This editorial is several months old, from Oyster Magazine issue 85: Print is Dead. But I was drawn to it because it features none other than Australia's Next Top Model cycle 5 runner-up Cassi Van Den Dungen. It was generally assumed that when she turned her back on the industry after losing (well, not winning) she wouldn't be working again. So you can imagine my surprise finding her modeling in an über-cool editorial of Australia's longest-surviving indie fashion magazine Oyster. I just had to share it...

Teddy Girls
Ali Stepka, Annamarije, Cassi Van Den Dungen, Georgie Fowler, Holly Thompson and Rosemary Smith

photographed by Liz Ham
styling Jolyon Mason
hair Sophie Roberts
make-up Sasha Nilsson

What is a 'teddy girl'?

"The teddy girls of 1950s London -- their sartorial assertiveness contrasted with the bombed out environments they occupied and their feisty appropriation of male styles (often down to the classic duck-tail haircut) set them apart from the standard Fifties Feminine."
Mina Estevez, Hint Fashion Magazine

"The teddy girls left school at 14 or 15, worked in factories or offices, and spent their free time buying or making their trademark clothes -- pencil skirts, rolled-up jeans, flat shoes, tailored jackets with velvet collars, coolie hats and long, elegant clutch bags. It was head-turning, fastidious dressing, taken from the fashion houses of the time, which had launched haute-couture clothing lines recalling the Edwardian era."
The Sunday Times

Pretty damn impressive for a first editorial, I must say.


Romany

[photos courtesy of trendland.net]

Editorial Watch

Sex sells, after all...

9 1/2 Minutes
Tori Praver and Tyson Ballou
photographed by Sharif Hamza for Vogue Russia
styling Simon Robins

Sexy stuff.
But what do you all think? Pleasantly sexy or too far?
What are your thoughts on the increasing influence of sex in the fashion industry? Obviously it's always been a major factor to commercial success, but lately it seems to have risen to a whole new level, especially with regard to nudity. I have no problem with nudity whatsoever, in fact sometimes it can be what turns something ordinary into something extraordinary - but sometimes it seems as if nipples are being thrown in here and there simply for the hell of it. It's the gratuitous nudity that I guess I have an issue with (and that goes for film and television, also). It's just downright...tacky.


Romany

[photographs courtesy of fashiongonerogue.com]

Editorial Watch

This new weekly feature will allow us to indulge in the most beautiful and interesting editorial[s] of the week...

Magdalena
photographed by Cathrin Jo Ann Wind for Diva
styling Yoan Gonfond
make-up Diana Galante c/o Top Agence

Photographer Cathrin Jo Ann Wind produced an unusual fashion editorial for Diva magazine, Austria. American painter Edward Hopper, who in the 1950s captured the solitude of the contemporary individual in sensitive pictures, inspired her shoot.

To capture the feel of the paintings, Cathrin commissioned miniature models, which she then photographed using meticulous lighting. Designs by J. P. Gaultier Maille, Salvatore Ferragamo, Burberry Prorsum, Stella McCartney, Missoni and Maurizio Pecoraro were added later.

An incredibly elaborate post-production completed the look: resulting in an editorial filled with light and shadow play, between reality and dream.

A very interesting concept, executed beautifully.

Romany

[photos courtesy of gosee.us]