Saturday, 10 October 2009

My love affair with Vogue covers


Georgia May Jagger showcases her bardot-esque pout on the latest cover of the fashion bible- shot by Mario Testino. The 17-year old is the fifth "Jagger woman" to make the cover.
This cover is in complete contrast to the October cover featuring Sienna Miller, also shot by Testino. It is bold, the background carefully co-ordinated with the punchy red used to daub Jagger's lips. The look is high-maintenance gloss, leant a punky edge by the noir nails and quirkily star-shaped sunglasses. The cover certainly jumps out at you from the news-stand.
The Sienna cover however has a more natural, carefree feel to it, Miller's smattering of freckles left to shine through. A studded Religion leather jacket is draped casually over her shoulders, unusually seen months before on the fash pack's favourite Pixie Geldof. Pixie has been slinging (quite literally) the label's jacket over her wild outfits all summer.
Some might say as it's a British issue the predominance of pink is not in keeping with the theme, however, the classic union jack colours have been so over-used that this marked departure seems a fresh way of tackling the theme.
I personally love the cover, but as a self-confessed Sienna fan I can't help but like it. Try as I might I find I can't move on from Sienna, she remains one of my main style-crushes. Put simply she is the girl everyone wants to be. Despite the very public affair, the tabloid mis-demeanours and her inherent ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time, she is still so damm cool.
Sienna is seen as the archetypal guy's girl and this inevitably goes against her in the press, but she continues to please her style devotees, me being one of them.

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