Very impressive...love the unknown model and the multicoloured banner (the latter never-before-seen in Vogue Australia). Love the Prada fiesta.
Showing posts with label Vogue Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vogue Australia. Show all posts
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Favourite Vogue Australia Covers
From top: Catherine McNeil (September 2010), Abbie Cornish (December 2009), Sasha Pivovarova (July 2008), Melissa George (October 2006), Daria Verbowy (November 2005), Tiiu Kuik (July 2004), Linda Vojtova (September 2003).
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Mags I can't find and can't afford the thought of purchasing which keeps me awake in a cold sweat of anticipation (seriously)
In order...
UK Vogue February 2009. I'm not really sure who Cheryl Cole is - some Brit-tab G-lister I suspect - but UK Vogue is typically bold, sensual, unaffected and direct in its treatment of this month's cover subject.
US Vogue January 2009 (only because of my dedication to AH, not because I in any way support A-Dubs' crumbling empire):
And as regards mags I'd normally buy anyway but which I'm too poor to purchase currently (stranded in student accommodation on the North Coast of NSW)...
Vogue Australia February 2009. I realise this issue is probably as thin as toilet paper but Daria Verbowy looks so sexy and I just feel like saying "suck it" to all my female friends who for some reason can't stand her.
UK Vogue February 2009. I'm not really sure who Cheryl Cole is - some Brit-tab G-lister I suspect - but UK Vogue is typically bold, sensual, unaffected and direct in its treatment of this month's cover subject.
US Vogue January 2009 (only because of my dedication to AH, not because I in any way support A-Dubs' crumbling empire):
And as regards mags I'd normally buy anyway but which I'm too poor to purchase currently (stranded in student accommodation on the North Coast of NSW)...
Vogue Australia February 2009. I realise this issue is probably as thin as toilet paper but Daria Verbowy looks so sexy and I just feel like saying "suck it" to all my female friends who for some reason can't stand her.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
The Tanned Ideal II
Some desultory additions to yesterday's comments on tanning:
1. For fashion magazines to continue to feature soul-searching and heart-rending pieces about (for example) breast cancer (such as the February Vogue) whilst continuing to implicitly or otherwise to advocate tanning is basically hypocritical. For those in doubt about the public health impact of skin cancer vis-a-vis breast cancer, any Google search will reveal that they are very similar in terms of their mortality and economic impact.
2. It matters not whether or not tanning is addictive (vis-a-vis smoking) for the comparison to be valid. Not all behaviours with adverse health consequences are unquestionably addictive, though of course it would suit some people to claim that tanning is. If it isn't addictive - great, it'll be easier to change the relevant behaviours. If it is addictive - equally great, because it'll be *even more* deserving of public health intervention.
3. If fashion magazines do take a stand on tanning, they can't honestly expect a backlash from readers. Who would care? Advertisers maybe, but so what? Advertise more shoes, or bags. Magazines have survived the death of cigarette advertising.
1. For fashion magazines to continue to feature soul-searching and heart-rending pieces about (for example) breast cancer (such as the February Vogue) whilst continuing to implicitly or otherwise to advocate tanning is basically hypocritical. For those in doubt about the public health impact of skin cancer vis-a-vis breast cancer, any Google search will reveal that they are very similar in terms of their mortality and economic impact.
2. It matters not whether or not tanning is addictive (vis-a-vis smoking) for the comparison to be valid. Not all behaviours with adverse health consequences are unquestionably addictive, though of course it would suit some people to claim that tanning is. If it isn't addictive - great, it'll be easier to change the relevant behaviours. If it is addictive - equally great, because it'll be *even more* deserving of public health intervention.
3. If fashion magazines do take a stand on tanning, they can't honestly expect a backlash from readers. Who would care? Advertisers maybe, but so what? Advertise more shoes, or bags. Magazines have survived the death of cigarette advertising.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Karl Lagerfeld DVD
From Vogue Australia Forums
"Hi Voguettes,
The Vogue Australia March issue (on sale Feb 6) will include a feature-length DVD of Lagerfeld Confidential. Direct from its cinematic run in New York, London and Paris, the definitive Karl Lagerfeld documentary is exclusive to all Vogue readers.
Make sure you save the March on-sale date Feb 6 in your diary! This is one issue not to be missed!"
Sounds great, but depressing to see Vogue stooping to gimmickry for sales (ala Harper's Bazaar)...
"Hi Voguettes,
The Vogue Australia March issue (on sale Feb 6) will include a feature-length DVD of Lagerfeld Confidential. Direct from its cinematic run in New York, London and Paris, the definitive Karl Lagerfeld documentary is exclusive to all Vogue readers.
Make sure you save the March on-sale date Feb 6 in your diary! This is one issue not to be missed!"
Sounds great, but depressing to see Vogue stooping to gimmickry for sales (ala Harper's Bazaar)...
Friday, January 4, 2008
Soft Sell Part II
NB she's also in my blog banner above (famous Gucci ad).A comprehensive collections of her covers and editorials: http://www.herfamedgoodlooks.com/hfgl/Caroline%20Trentini/index.htm
Soft Sell Part I
My favourite editorial, featuring my favourite model of all time, Caroline Trentini. I saw this in Vogue Australia, February 2006 (Kate Moss cover) but it looks as if (from the font, and the fact that it was done by Patrick Demarchelier) it had to be reprinted from UK Vogue. I'll have more to say about the heartbreakingly beautiful Trentini very soon.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
My Prayers Are Answered/Iconography
The November '96 issue of Vogue Australia with Kylie Bax on the cover: the first Vogue I bought. I found the cover on
http://www.fashion-iconography.net, an amazing site that ought to be consulted by every mag enthusiast.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Beige Pages
You can bank on the first couple of issues of any mag in any given year to be write-offs, dominated by ads, editorials (often staggeringly mismatched with the current season) reprinted from overseas editions, half-hearted features on "getting into shape over the summer" and (as is the special province of Vogue Australia) encyclopaedically-detailed and puff-encrusted "sealed sections" on cosmetic surgery. February's Vogue Australia is no exception, so perhaps it's a bit unfair to give it too much a of teeth-kicking.
The Jennifer Connelly cover, reprinted from a recent editorial in US Vogue (another pic from that shoot claimed the cover for that edition) is typical of the blandsome and beige aesthetic favoured by Anna Wintour's glorified telephone directory - a Beige Pages, if you will - of a mag. Plus, in the cover pic she reminds me of Andie McDowell, which puts me in a mental state which is, I suspect, next door to the sensation of swallowing razor-blades in the street of my imagination. Almost every other pic in the shoot (with the exception of the one that made the US Vogue cover) is more cover-worthy than the one they chose. And I don't understand the Vogue Australia obsession with halter dresses - every second cover features some hapless celebrity being throttled by one.
There is nothing more depressing than reading a celebrity-interview. Jennifer Connelly offers us such words of wisdom as: "I don't think someone's hair colour should define their personality." Clearly those two months at Stanford didn't rub off...
Season/mood-inappropriateness manifests itself gloriously in the "Suit Yourself" editorial: who wants to be reminded of one's imminent return to work at this time of year? Not only is it inappropriate but I find it incomprehensible when Vogue pretends to be practical by doing edits on (for example) "workwear": either offer realistic fashion options for mundane scenarios (and not Ana Demeulemeester sequined jackets) or don't offer them at all - Vogue does glamour and fantasy best, and that's what it should stick to.
The Raquel Zimmerman edit (reprinted from Paris Vogue) is fairly lush and I fell in love with the telegraphic classicism of the Ralph Lauren shirts. The "Body of Evidence" lingerie editorial is beautiful, but the Bill Hensonesque aesthetic almost prevents the bras and things from being seen properly at all: there are ways of making a shoot moody without plunging everything into Stygean darkness.
Features articles in Vogue Australia not concerned with fashion have as far back as I can remember had a tokenistic and amateurish quality (underscored by the Natasha Inchley controversy of earlier this year): if we really wanted to read about breast cancer or the neurobiological basis of romantic love, we'd read marie claire (which of course some of us do).
All in all, this issue is not a keeper, in the tradition of most January/February issues. In general, though, the trajectory for Vogue Australia since being purchased by News Limited has been an upward one: you do get the feeling there's more money sloshing around. I bought my first Vogue Paris today: where has it been all my life? Maybe if I keep buying it enough French will rub off in time to appear chic during my planned Montreal jaunt at the end of this year.
The Jennifer Connelly cover, reprinted from a recent editorial in US Vogue (another pic from that shoot claimed the cover for that edition) is typical of the blandsome and beige aesthetic favoured by Anna Wintour's glorified telephone directory - a Beige Pages, if you will - of a mag. Plus, in the cover pic she reminds me of Andie McDowell, which puts me in a mental state which is, I suspect, next door to the sensation of swallowing razor-blades in the street of my imagination. Almost every other pic in the shoot (with the exception of the one that made the US Vogue cover) is more cover-worthy than the one they chose. And I don't understand the Vogue Australia obsession with halter dresses - every second cover features some hapless celebrity being throttled by one.
There is nothing more depressing than reading a celebrity-interview. Jennifer Connelly offers us such words of wisdom as: "I don't think someone's hair colour should define their personality." Clearly those two months at Stanford didn't rub off...
Season/mood-inappropriateness manifests itself gloriously in the "Suit Yourself" editorial: who wants to be reminded of one's imminent return to work at this time of year? Not only is it inappropriate but I find it incomprehensible when Vogue pretends to be practical by doing edits on (for example) "workwear": either offer realistic fashion options for mundane scenarios (and not Ana Demeulemeester sequined jackets) or don't offer them at all - Vogue does glamour and fantasy best, and that's what it should stick to.
The Raquel Zimmerman edit (reprinted from Paris Vogue) is fairly lush and I fell in love with the telegraphic classicism of the Ralph Lauren shirts. The "Body of Evidence" lingerie editorial is beautiful, but the Bill Hensonesque aesthetic almost prevents the bras and things from being seen properly at all: there are ways of making a shoot moody without plunging everything into Stygean darkness.
Features articles in Vogue Australia not concerned with fashion have as far back as I can remember had a tokenistic and amateurish quality (underscored by the Natasha Inchley controversy of earlier this year): if we really wanted to read about breast cancer or the neurobiological basis of romantic love, we'd read marie claire (which of course some of us do).
All in all, this issue is not a keeper, in the tradition of most January/February issues. In general, though, the trajectory for Vogue Australia since being purchased by News Limited has been an upward one: you do get the feeling there's more money sloshing around. I bought my first Vogue Paris today: where has it been all my life? Maybe if I keep buying it enough French will rub off in time to appear chic during my planned Montreal jaunt at the end of this year.
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Vogue Australia February 2008
Sorry for the poor quality of the image...Jennifer Connelly on the cover of Vogue Australia February 2008 (reprint from a recent US Vogue editorial). Will review once it is out (on Wednesday).
Welcome
Hi all,
Welcome to the Xenienx blog. I'm a boy from Sydney who has always wanted to indulge and share his passion for fashion and fashion magazines via a blog, and finally I've found the time (on New Year's Eve, bizarrely enough, when I should be preparing for the party I'm hosting) to do it.
Since the age of 13 I have been passionately fond of fashion and, especially, fashion magazines. I'll never forget the first issue of Vogue Australia I bought in November 1996 with (I believe) Kylie Bax on the cover. It filled me with a profound and intoxicating delight that has not diminished over the years.
If there's one little mission I'd like to accomplish via this blog, it is to challenge the stereotype that my interests are solely the province of women and gay men. There is more stigma attached to straight men being interested in fashion than there is attached to (straight) women pursuing "male" interests. Clearly this is not the most burning issue facing the world at the moment, but I think I would have been a happier and more well-adjusted person if I'd been able to share these passions earlier.
However, I am deeply cynical about and suspicious of "the fashion world" and would never want to be part of it - my appreciation of fashion remains solely aesthetic.
My favourite fashion house is Balenciaga. My favourite magazine (by far) is UK Vogue, but I also have a fondness for UK Harper's Bazaar. I hope that one day Vogue Australia will fully realise its tremendous potential. I thought Elle Australia was a great mag and I was sad to see it fold all those years ago.
The blog will consist mainly of magazine reviews and general faffings about models and designers. Hopefully I will start blogging substantively early in the New Year.
Happy New Year everyone!
Love,
xenien
PS. Anyone who can either provide me with a copy of that November '96 issue with Kylie Bax on the cover or an image thereof will be rewarded handsomely...
Welcome to the Xenienx blog. I'm a boy from Sydney who has always wanted to indulge and share his passion for fashion and fashion magazines via a blog, and finally I've found the time (on New Year's Eve, bizarrely enough, when I should be preparing for the party I'm hosting) to do it.
Since the age of 13 I have been passionately fond of fashion and, especially, fashion magazines. I'll never forget the first issue of Vogue Australia I bought in November 1996 with (I believe) Kylie Bax on the cover. It filled me with a profound and intoxicating delight that has not diminished over the years.
If there's one little mission I'd like to accomplish via this blog, it is to challenge the stereotype that my interests are solely the province of women and gay men. There is more stigma attached to straight men being interested in fashion than there is attached to (straight) women pursuing "male" interests. Clearly this is not the most burning issue facing the world at the moment, but I think I would have been a happier and more well-adjusted person if I'd been able to share these passions earlier.
However, I am deeply cynical about and suspicious of "the fashion world" and would never want to be part of it - my appreciation of fashion remains solely aesthetic.
My favourite fashion house is Balenciaga. My favourite magazine (by far) is UK Vogue, but I also have a fondness for UK Harper's Bazaar. I hope that one day Vogue Australia will fully realise its tremendous potential. I thought Elle Australia was a great mag and I was sad to see it fold all those years ago.
The blog will consist mainly of magazine reviews and general faffings about models and designers. Hopefully I will start blogging substantively early in the New Year.
Happy New Year everyone!
Love,
xenien
PS. Anyone who can either provide me with a copy of that November '96 issue with Kylie Bax on the cover or an image thereof will be rewarded handsomely...
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