magazine collection: Vogue Italia

So after making a review on Vogue Nippon, I’m going to cover Vogue Italia. To many, Vogue Italia is THE fashion magazine. It pushes the boundary of fashion photography as well as challenges the public to very controversial and shocking images.  To be frank, if I had to decide which Vogue collection to save if say a fire were to run in my dormitory, I would save every single issue of my Vogue Italia.

Here are the basics:

Editor-in-Chief: Franca Sozzani

Firust issue: 1964

Every single cover and main editorial in Vogue Italia is shot by non other than Steven Meisel since the late 80’s. Here are my favorite covers from my collection, but as you can see from my second post in this blog, their October 2007 cover will forever be my favorite, too bad I can't find it :'(.

May 2007 with Gemma Ward

October 2008 with Anna Jagodzinska

December 2008 with Katrin Thronmann

June 2009 with Meghan Collison

Meisel's editorial tends to either push the boundaries of fashion and becomes instantly adored, or it can be a classic (often dull) studio shoots. Some issues he's touched on for editorials include celebrity rehab, oil spill in the Mexican Gulf, terrorism attack of 9/11 and the list goes on... 

He's known for having a circle of favorite models he feature in each cover, American Vogue even dubbed him the "godfather" of all famous models today which includes Giselle, Naomi, Linda and Christy. I'll do a post about his personal life soon! But for now, to see my Vogue Italia collection, continue after the JUMP!

my magazine collection part UNO

So I've decided that since I'm going to discuss a majority of this blog on the communication side of fashion, and I've stated in my previous post that I'm obsessed with fashion editorials; I'm going to post my growing and humble collection of magazines. Keep in mind that this is part one of my collection. I'm currently only going to feature my Vogue collection, because when one thinks about fashion magazines, Vogue always sticks out as the leading magazine in fashion. 


To be frank, I've only started collecting about a year and a half ago. Ever since I moved to Singapore about a year ago I started investing (yes, I consider it an investment) on a lot of fashion magazines. A majority of it being Vogue of course. As you can see from this image here, I collect a lot of different international versions of Vogue, with American Vogue being the most. If you were to ask me which one is my favorite, I wouldn't be able to give you an answer. Each edition is unique in its own way. Italia gives me inspiration and plays with how far my imagination can go. Paris give me glamour and luxury. Nippon gives me clear, fun art direction as well as keeps me from forgetting my Japanese fluency... and it goes on. 

I will do a more in depth review on each edition of Vogue soon.

  

See close up shots after the jump!