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We make fun of American fashion glossies a lot because their covers are boring. For one recent example, Harper’s Bazaar shed its own tedious cover format and then did a bunch of press congratulating itself for the new French Vogue-y direction. The March 2012 issue of W, however, gets both a supermodel (as opposed to an actress) and quite an arresting portrait to boot.
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The January issue of W Magazine features actress we irrationally hate Carey Mulligan looking quite a bit sexier than we’re used to seeing her. Why, there she is, right on the cover of the magazine, in only her underwear! I could do without the tired virgin/whore dichotomy in the copy, but the pictures inside are lovely. They get even lovelier when you remember that she has a smart brain to go along with her beauty. I can’t wait to get my hands on a full copy of the article. More
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For its December issue, W Magazine went full Fanning with a huge spread featuring the creepily precocious blonde sisters, as well as an interview with them by the world’s most notorious hit piece writer, Lynn Hirschberg. Mercifully, she spares them the truffle fry treatment, but she does ask a question that unintentionally reveals herself to be a horrible, horrible sister.
Unrelated: doesn’t Elle Fanning’s version of “Blue Steel” look like it should be re-named “The Bad Seed“? I think this every time I see a picture of her in which she’s not smiling. Which is most of them. More
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When reading W‘s art and fashion issue, you might want to pay close attention to the pages and pages of ads you normally skip through to get to the editorial content. This is because, scattered among the ads for actual products, are nine completely fake ads for fake products shot by the wonderful Steven Meisel. They star such familiar faces as Karen Elson, Linda Evangelista, and good old Joan Rivers, and I happen to think they’re a pretty brilliant marriage of fashion and art. More
Anna Wintour’s new favorite partner in blunt-smoking Nicki Minaj is the cover girl of W‘s November “art and fashion” issue, and for the accompanying editorial, the magazine decided to do something unexpected and wonderful with her. With the help of artist Francesco Vezzoli, they styled her to look like several different Renaissance portraits, if Nicki Minaj had been alive back then. (And if black women had been allowed to be noblewomen in 17th century Europe.) In addition to being cool and unique, I think the photos do a great job showcasing Nicki’s natural beauty, which often takes a backseat to her crazy ensembles. More
Oh, dear. People can’t stop leaking unretouched images of Madonna. The latest set–from her March 2009 W cover and editorial featuring then-boyfriend Jesus Luz–is perhaps the most startling. Be warned, Madonna is wearing a transparent, flesh-colored bra and the photos are essentially NSFW. More
Elizabeth Olsen, the littlest Olsen, has caused quite a stir on the festival circuit with her reportedly game changing performance in that movie with the relentlessly alliterative title, Martha Marcy May Marlene. Subsequently, she landed editorials in both W and Nylon (+Nylon‘s cover) in both publications’ October issues. Check out how dramatically different she’s depicted (see that?) across the two. More
Is there anything Carine Roitfeld can’t do? Since leaving her job as editor-in-chief of French Vogue, it seems like the plucky little 57-year-old lady has been busier than ever. To go along with a feature on her in the October issue of W, she selected, styled, and modeled an editorial featuring some of fall’s most insane runway looks. The results are predictably glamorous. More
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W‘s October cover features Justin Timberlake as a philandering politician and Amanda Seyfreid as his long-suffering wife (and, bonus: mistress). Seyfried wears first lady favorites like Carolina Herrera and St John while Timberlake continues to stall his followup to FutureSex/LoveSounds and that bums everyone out. They were shot by Michael Thompson and styled by Edward Enninful. Here’s the full spread. More
September covers are trickling in, which means one thing: summer is over and fashion’s big season is upon us. Or that the publishing industry is trying to move product by giving famous people dramatic makeovers. So maybe it means two things. Anyway, Kristen Stewart looks sultry and Bardot-y (it’s a word) (it’s Friday) in her W spread. Styled by Edward Enninful, Stewart wears Gucci, Max Mara, Dolce & Gabbana and more throughout. Observe… More
W‘s August issue features a delightful photo spread in which teen models Lindsey Wixon and Daphne Groeneveld hang around various areas of New York City styled to blend in with their surroundings. Or rather, styled to match the image their surroundings are historically best known for. I’m a little disappointed there’s no Brownsville one, but the folks at W still did a fine job. Let’s take a look. More
Tilda Swinton has long been one of our favorite figures in fashion for her bold, androgynous style choices and spooky sense of playfulness. “Unconventionally sexy” is not a euphemism when applied to her; there is nothing conventional about her allure, and she wouldn’t want anyone to think so. When appearing in magazines, Swinton never fails to impress, but her latest massive 15-page editorial spread for W‘s August issue is really something else. The accompanying online article cites such disparate influences as “Arnold Genthe’s portraits of Greta Garbo, Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, and the work of French artist and provocateur Claude Cahun, famous in the Twenties for her explorations of gender role play,” as well as Swinton’s “aesthetic North Stars,” her father and David Bowie. I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey. More
A lot of people grew cross with Nicola Formichetti yesterday when a W interview came out in which he said he refuses to style fat people. He used the racially loaded (and somewhat head scratch inducing) adjective “ghetto” to describe them, and puzzlingly referred to a shoot with “Ali G’s brother,” who looks like this (below), as a shoot in which there was an unacceptable amount of fatness at play. More
