Naomi Campbell is her larger-than-life supermodel self for Harper’s US March issue, wearing embellished pieces from Dolce & Gabbana, Givenchy and Gucci, styled by Jay Massacret and lensed by Karim Sadli.
Naomi Campbell | Karim Sadli | Harper's US March 2012
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Doutzen Kroes | Daniel Jackson | Harper's Bazaar US March 2012 | 'A Fresh Take'
Doutzen Kroes delivers a stunning, intimate, sensually-engaged all white series of photographs, lensed impeccably by Daniel Jackson for Harper’s Bazaar US March issue. ‘A Fresh Take’ is a wonderful look at a true Smart Sensuality woman.
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Gwen Loos | David Roemer | Glamour Italy February 2012 | 'Tribal Chic'
Every spring/summer magazine has its ‘Tribal Chic’ editorial and sometimes several. Model Gwen Loos spreads classic safari style wealth, dressed by Valentina Di Pinto, then lensed by David Roemer for Glamour Italy’s February issue. /Hair by Keith Caroenter; makeup by Hung Vanngor.
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Pirita Litmanen | Federico Cabrera | REVS Magazine #1 | 'Scent of Mystery'
Note | Nudity REVS magazine seeks to explore fashion as an art form. Led by photographer Federico Cabrera, model Pirita Litmanen explores the future of fashion, sensuality and modernism in ‘Scent of Mystery, styled by Udi Salminen for REVS #1.
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Constance Jablonski | Greg Kadel | Vogue Italia February 2012
Constance Jablonski is a sensual Venus in Greg Kadel’s romantic rite of spring beauty images for Vogue Italia’s February issue. Constance’s lingerie-inspired wardrobe, complete with flowers and fur, is styled by Elizabeth Sulcer./Makeup by Mariel Barrera; hair by Franco Gobbi.
via FGR
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Georgia May Jagger | Alexi Lubomirski | Harper's Bazaar UK March 2012
Georgia May Jagger is as bronzed as her metallic fabrics for the March cover shoot of Harper’s Bazaar UK. Leaving little doubt that the editorial seeks to position Goergia May as Lara Stone, the young sea siren is captured by Alexi Lubomirski wearing Givenchy, Herve Leger and Salvatore Ferragamo, styling by Vanessa Coyle. /Hair by Tomoohiro Ohashi; makeup by Tyron Machhausen.
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Rooney Mara | Glen Luchford | Dazed & Confused January 2012 | Who's That Girl
Rooney Mara, currently starring in ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” gets edgy and dark for the January issue of Dazed & Confused. Glen Luchford captures a bit of Rooney’s style mystery, wearing Balmain, Alexander McQueen and Givenchy in ‘Who’s That Girl?’.
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Linda Evangelista & Saskia de Brauw | Mert & Marcus | LOVE Magazine S/S 2012 | 'The Misfits'
Note | Nudity Spring editorials may be obsessed with Donna Reed as Susie Homemaker or rich woman with a maid statements, but LOVE magazine’s Katie Grand puts a very different spin on the fashion moment with her spring 2012 edition. When Grand put Linda Evangelista on the first-ever solo LOVE cover, it’s the tag line that got our attention: “After Taste — Celebrating the End of Elegance with Linda Evangelista.”
This Mert & Marcus editorial ‘The Misfits’ trends against that intellectual backdrop. Starring Saskia de Brauw, Linda Evangelista, John, Angus, Miles & Erik, the images embrace Grand’s familiar theme of gender identity, transfluidity, male and female. Provocation and transgression run deep in Katie Grand’s soul like a breath of fresh air.
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Madonna | Mert & Marcus | MDNA Covers & 'Give Me All Your Luvin'
Mert & Marcus capture the incredible Madonna for her new album MDNA, followed by images from the first track ‘Give Me All Your Luvin’, the single dropped Feb. 3. The album MDNA is out March 26. Madonna’s global tour dates follow below.
Single ‘Live Me All Your Luvin’
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Ali Michael | Bruno Staub | Elle US March 2012 | Spin Doctors
Stylist Joe Zee squares off with model Ali Michael, mixing modern clinical style with retro references, photographed by Bruno Staub in ‘Spin Dictors’ for Elle US March issue. /Hair by Holli Smith; makeup by Maud Laceppe.
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Woman | Daria Werbowy | Mikael Jansson | Vogue Japan April 2010 | 'When Goddess Rules the Sea'
Working on goddess jewelry and sea siren editorials, this Vogue Japan April 2010 editorial of Daria Werbowy ‘When Goddess Rules the Sea’ appeared, lensed by Mikael Jansson and styled by George Cortina.
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Uma Thurman | Peter Lindbergh | Vogue Italia February 2012
Peter Lindbergh captures actress Uma Thurman for the February issue of Vogue Italia. Lensed in black and white images, Uma is intimate but also an aloof escape artist in the same moment, wearing Yves Saint Laurent, Sportmax, Prada, Dior and others selected by stylist Michael Philouze. / Hair by David Babaii, Makeup by Stephane marais @ L’atelier
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Daisy Lowe | Toby McFarlan Pond | LOVE Magazine #7 | 'Closer'
First question about Daisy Lowe’s stunningly sensual and provocative editorial ‘Closer’ for LOVE magazine’s Spring/Summer issue #7 is: who is Toby McFarlan Pond? He is an English still life photographer who photographs luxury goods such as jewelry, handbags and heels. Count cover art for Bjork among his connections.
For LOVE McFarlan Pond works with fashion editor Jean-Marc Masala on a fine jewelry editorial that Carine Roitfeld will love. In their own words: “A warm human body meets cold, hard rocks: The camera presses flesh as Daisy Lowe gets intimate in big, bold gems.” Nice. A quick overview of the photographers work is at Trunk Archive.
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Rianne ten Haken | Anthony Maule | A Perfect Guide #22 | 'Fashion Discipline'
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Note | Nudity Model Rianne ten Haken and photographer Anthony Maule deliver a smashing editorial ‘Fashion Discipline’ for A Perfect Guide #22 Winter 2011. Vanessa Coyle styles the shoot from labels including Maison Margiela, Haider Ackerman, Rick Owens, Agent Provocateur, Lacivious and many more. The editorial oozes an intense sensual heat and provocation but also remains intimate with a strong artistic connection between ten Haken and Maule. ‘Fashion Discipline’ is a winner for the clothes and the artistic statement about powerful, unyielding female sensuality. Rianne ten Haken projects this image on a consistent basis, and I love her for it. A weakling for women she is not. Anne
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Kristen McMenamy | Tim Walker | LOVE Magazine #7 S/S 2012 | 'The Origin of Monsters'
First I gasped, then I wept when reviewing LOVE magazine’s ‘The Origin of Monsters’. Kristen McMenamy is always known for taking risk, but I hadn’t viewed Tim Walker as equally provocative. Katie Grand, I complimented yesterday, as a preeminent fashion mind, a woman willing to REALLY press the envelope. Only a few come to mind: Katie, Carine and Franca. Am I missing someone who is truly influential?
Many @Annes come to me now, a profusion of compliments and support for the unique style and voice behind the websites. ‘You’re becoming famous,’ some write. Our traffic is up almost 50% the last 3 mos, so I must be doing something right. My goal is to raise the intellectual mindset of our industry around the question of ‘intention’, when the subject is images and messages to women and men, too, around the female experience. It comforts me to know that so many of you ‘get it’, at a time when women are fighting for our lives and ‘selves’ around the world and here in America.
When I saw these Tim Walker images I did start crying and then fired off a heartfelt email to my Catholic monk blogging partner Bro. Dennis. Three weeks of news, the big Komen Breast Cancer Foundation/Planned Parenthood fight has left me raw. Republican candidates are running around the country promising to reevaluate contraception for American women. Fox News calls women like me totalitarian feminists for fighting back for women’s rights — any rights that women will have left when the Republicans are finished with us. I listened to a Catholic bishop in the Philippines explaining that there’s no problem with women having 12 children. It’s the world’s challenge to learn to feed them.
If you look and listen carefully, the concept of the women or woman as ‘self’ and not an incubator or breeder of fetuses is never commented on. We’ve become the cogs in the wheel, the machines that make babies and we must be controlled like a Maytag. Just keep us running, say the social conservatives.
Then these LOVE magazine images appeared, and the damn broke for me. I could cry, write down the words and articulate the nightmare for readers. Anybody who says that fashion images have no impact on women is full of crap. That’s why I raise the issue of intention. When you can make fashion as art — ‘The Origins of Monsters’ being a perfect example — why wouldn’t you?
On a related note, our recent front page story on ‘Queen of the Sun’ and experience artist Sara Mapelli’s dance with bees, coupled with the latest research on why our honey bees are dropping dead like flies, is a welcome respite from my fashion to flogging analysis. Her video is pretty damn profound. Anne
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Laura Blokhina | Pierre Dal Corso | L'edito Magazine February 2012
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My dear friend Pierre Dal Corso just delivered a superb set of images published today in L’edito magazine. Model Laura Blokhina is styled without restraint in edgy, lingerie-inspired fashion deluxe by Ilona Glapa.
For me the editorial is outstanding, very fresh and employs photography techniques plus page layouts that are unique. Spatial relationships and poses are key to the powerful visual impression made by this creative editorial operating with a single orchestrated vision of a modern femme fatale. I love it. Anne
Full credits after images. More Pierre Dal Corso.
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Leelee Sobieski | Michael Donovan | Bullett Winter 2011 | Never Been Kissed
Julie Ragolia styles Leelee Sobieski in ‘Never Been Kissed’, lensed by the always experimental Michael Donovan for Bullett’s Winter 2011 issue.
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Eva Mendes | Txema Yeste | Marie Claire US March 2012 | Hot & Bothered
Eva Mendes sizzles for this latest issue of Marie Claire US, photographed by Txema Yeste. Styled by Nina Garcia, Eva wears a Dolce and Gabbana bodysuit on the cover, Bottega Veneta, Jeremy Scott, Prada, Nina Ricci and more.
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Julianne Moore, Helena Christensen, Erin Wasson, Elizabeth Olsen & Shailene Woodley | Cover Vs. Magazine S/S 2012
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Julianne Moore, Helena Christensen, Erin Wasson, Elizabeth Olsen & Shailene Woodley and ‘Intimate’ cover girls for Vs. Magazine Spring/Summer 2012. Guy Aroch is behind the camera in a blue mood look at sensuality.
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Mariacarla Boscono | Patrick Demarchelier | Vogue Italia February 2012
Mariacarla Boscono headlines ‘The Outstanding M.C.B. in Patrick Demarchelier’s editorial for Vogue Italia February issue. The entire cast wears Gucci’s Art Deco Dresses, styled by Patti Wilson.
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