V Magazine: The New York Issue

Some Sunday morning fabulous.

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V Magazine: High Society

You're no tramp, but you're no lady

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V Magazine: Hot for Scarlett

Put a magazine in front of us and we start spouting opinions.

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Kirsten Dunst for V Magazine

Whatever happened to Kirsten Dunst?

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Curves Ahead

Because models over a size 2 always generate a lot of discussion. We're shameless that way.

V Magazine's issue celebrating "women of all sizes" offers us another editorial to argue about discuss.

“CURVES AHEAD” by V MAGAZINE
What’s the skinny on today’s models? Big is bigger than ever, and these bombshells of plus-size are proving that there’s plenty of room in the fashion world for women who look like…women
Photographs by Sølve Sundsbø
Styling by Nicola Formichetti
Models: Candice Huffine, Marquita Pring, Michelle Olson, Tara Lynn, Kasia P

V63 will hit newsstands on January 14, 2010.

After shooting for V, Sundsbø later said: “I loved the opportunity to show that you can be beautiful and sexy outside the narrow interpretations that normally define us.”









Just as the last time we featured something like this, we're going to mostly keep our mouths shut and let you do all the talking. It's clearly an emotional land mine for a lot of women and as gay men, we can say we sympathize or understand but ultimately, we don't.

But can we just say one thing? As gay men? Okay, we really hope this isn't offensive, but isn't it kind of annoying that all too often during the rare instances when plus-sized models (Plus-sized when referred to models is not the same thing as when it refers to clothing. Confusing, we know.) are featured, the very first thing most photographers do is have them pose shirtless or with a belly shirt on? And if that's not the case, then they put them in the tightest, least flattering clothes they can find. Why? We get it. They're not size 0. So why not put them in the correct size or in clothes that flatter them? It's what a photographer and stylist would do with any other model, so why do the bigger models get the tighter, more revealing clothes? You never see plus-sized models in these editorials wearing something classic and tailored or flowing and goddess-y. No, they always look like they're heading out to the road house on a Saturday night, where ladies drinks are half off. In fact, the more we think about it, we can't ever remember seeing a "plus-sized" editorial (and it's not like there have been so many that we have trouble recalling) where we liked the clothes. It's always super-tight, super-short, super-revealing. We get it. "Big is Beautiful." They want to promote the idea that bigger women are sexy. Well you know what? Bigger women are fabulous too. Can't we have a "Big is Fabulous" spread some time soon that doesn't roll around in the old tropes that fat women are sexually ravenous and a little sloppy to boot?

And that's us "mostly keeping our mouths shut."


[Photos: vmagazine.com]


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One Size Fits All

For once, darlings, we leave the opinionating up to you.

Issue #63 of V Magazine, which will hit newsstands on January 14th, celebrates women of all shapes and sizes.

Editorial: One Size Fits All
Photography: Terry Richardson
Styling: Mel Ottenberg
Models: Crystal Renn (5 ft, 9 in; 36"/31"/41"), Jacquelyn Jablonski (5 ft, 9 in; 32"/24"/34")

Crystal Renn is one of the best-known (we almost used "biggest" and thought better of it at the last second) plus-size models in the industry.

Now take a look:




Why are we leaving the opinionating up to you? Well, because we think it's worthy of discussion and yet we have little to say about it. We're not "plus-sized" women, which means we haven't been subjected to exactly what that means in a world where one can so easily feel marginalized by one's imperfections. Oh sure, men are subjected more and more to this kind of body anxiety (gay men especially), but as we all know, men and women are judged differently, especially when it comes to their looks. What we're trying to say here is, no matter how much we might obsess over our waist size and the relative firmness of our pecs and butts, we don't have that lifetime of pressure that women sometimes feel to be perfect.

Bottom line? We think the editorial is interesting, but we simply don't have a reaction that goes beyond "Hunh. How about that." Actually, that's not quite true. We have another reaction and that one is "Why?" Is there a point to this? What do you guys think? How do these pictures make you feel?


[Photos: vmagazine.com]


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V Magazine: Natalie Portman

Princess Amidala gets her Rihanna on.

V Magazine #62
Editorial: Natalie Or Nothing
Styled by Clare Richardson
Photographed by Mario Testino

We've always been a little annoyed by Natalie Portman. For someone so undeniably beautiful, she's, well, boring as hell. The girl's just got no charisma whatsoever. Either she was really pissed off about something the day these pictures were taken or Mario Testino somehow managed to tap into a side of her rarely (if ever) seen, but we think these are some of the best pictures we've ever seen of her. She's looked prettier in other pictures, and we can't say we love the clothes, but she's commanding the camera in a way we've never seen her do. If we were flipping through this magazine, we'd stop and look at this editorial. And if we were her style consultants, we'd tell her to look into heavy eye makeup more often.








[Images: TheFashionSpot/VMagazine.com]


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V Magazine: Wild Things (NSFW)

We interrupt this non-stop Project Runway blogging for some much-needed nekkidness.

Where: V Magazine, September 2009 issue
What: “WILD THINGS" editorial, photographed by Mario Testino; Styling by Beat Bolliger
Why: Why the hell not?

Enjoy, bitches!

Lanvin Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Tanya Dziahilev

Dsquared2 Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Chanel Iman

Roberto Cavalli Fall 2009 [Not pictured]/Missoni Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Irina Kulikova

Burberry Prorsum Fall 2009 Collection [First look not exact match]
Models: Anna Gushina/Lily Donaldson

Etro Fall 2009 Collection/Blumarine Fall 2009 Collection [Dress worn as a skirt]
Models: Vlada Roslyakova/Catherine McNeill

Diane Von Furstenberg Fall 2009 Collection
Models: Ali Stephens/Elena Melnik

Etro Fall 2009 Collection/DKNY Fall 2009 Collection
Models: Anja Rubik/Naty Chabanenko

Christian Dior Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Magdalena Frackowiak

[Images: TheFashionSpot/Style.com]


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Cameron Diaz in V Magazine

Cam D gets her Madge on!

In an editorial for V Magazine's July/August issue Cameron Diaz pays tribute to Madonna:

Prada Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Auguste Tomasuite

We don't know, these pics just aren't doing it for us. Cammy never met a camera who didn't like her, but she seems weirdly out of her element in these pictures. And of all the women out there to do an editorial paying tribute to Madonna, she seems like a very strange choice. Besides, there's "paying tribute" and then there's looking like an impersonator. It's not that she evokes Madonna in these pictures; it's that they went to great lengths to make her look exactly like her. It all just comes off a little unimaginative to us. Interesting, but kind of a head-scratcher.

[Photos: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott/Vmagazine.com/Style.com]

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