Topic: American Vogue

Lady Gaga Lands The Most Important Fashion Cover Of The Year

Lady Gaga Lands The Most Important Fashion Cover Of The Year

Lady Gaga let the cat out of the bag on Twitter: she’s American Vogue‘s September covergirl. Yes, the all-important September issue is refreshingly offbeat this year and Gaga looks great in a fried lion’s mane and that striking Marc Jacobs gown. She was shot by powerhouse duo Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott and styled by Grace Coddington (of course). The cover story is already up online, too, so it looks like this was a coordinated leak. More »

Vogue Writer Who Fat-Shamed Her 7-Year-Old Daughter Gets Book Deal

Vogue Writer Who Fat-Shamed Her 7-Year-Old Daughter Gets Book Deal

Whether it’s teenage runway models representing “different” body types or hailing all people over a size 2 as “curvy,” Vogue‘s annual “Shape Issue” is always a barrel of bitter laughs. This year, however, it may have gotten its darkest: socialite Dara-Lynn Weiss wrote candidly (and, seemingly, obliviously) about putting her seven-year-old daughter Bea on a strict diet that included publicly humiliating her, withholding cake at a birthday party and a bunch of other nightmare shit only a really, really, really questionable mother would do. Now everything gets worse! More »

Fashion Cliché: Models Grocery Shopping In Designer Clothes

Fashion Cliché: Models Grocery Shopping In Designer Clothes

You know what sounds like a good idea for a striking, funny, provocative fashion editorial? Imagine a beautiful model… wearing outlandish couture, flowing caftans, immaculately tailored sheath dresses… while buying groceries in a supermarket. Yes, a regular old, garden-variety supermarket. The most mundane of environs. Wouldn’t that be camp? And tongue-in-cheek? In fact, the whole idea of juxtaposing couture opulence with menial tasks is just so rich!

And that’s what we should have thought last week, when we saw this Jean-François Campos-lensed cover shoot for Vogue Latin America starring Constance Jablonksi. But we didn’t. More »