the influence of technology in fashion is rapidly increasing. whether its the live streams from paris for alexander mcqueen or michael kors being inspired by lady gaga enough to inject lucite into his spring collection- the future is now. the december cover of italian vogue pays tribute to our current digital age with the tag line, “meisel pic” referencing the infamous “twitpic” site, which is among the sister sites of the entire twitter.com conglomerate. personally, i think it is the role of publications as reputable as vogue italia, to produce original concepts that, if anything, would inspire others. you have to look at the cover & wonder, “how much creativity is lacking here?” it almost downgrades the magazine’s creative reputation. its understandable that fashion publications need to provide a certain element of shock value with emphasis on the unexpected but real shit- dont sacrifice creativity completely. the cover features supermodels christy turlington, gisele bunchen, kasia struss, lara stone & natalia vodianova in reportedly self-shot images. while kasia gives you the online profile signature of shooting into the mirror, christy gives you the ‘im a bad bitch in shades’ shot. lara stone lends her face to the unsuspecting overhead candid, while we see gisele with her amrs out in a pose screaming, “i shot this image myself & didnt take time to fix my hair beforehand.” the only image that reflects any form of creativity is natalia’s & seen to the left, its obvious. after first seeing the cover on monday, i thought it was a fake & honestly dismissed the cover script as a poorly selected font of a tacky watermark. myself, as well as many other readers & fashion blogosphere residents, have tried to give the cover a chance. sometimes you dont appreciate the cover when confronted with it head-on & it takes time to soak in- i mean, why wouldnt you try & bend your perception for steven meisel? but this cover, is – without a doubt – horrible. i’ve compared it to a high school yearbook friendship collage. case in point, that type of shit is not chic. in my own blazing opinion, i feel that fashion is provided to inspire us- not imitate us. does this creative option glorify twitter? because it most certainly does not elevate the creative potential of italian vogue. does this dismiss the fashion credibility of steven meisel? because in many forms it seems careless. it seems like this is the easy way out. all shade aside, im sure this saved italian vogue some money- as cover shoots aren’t cheap. but still, in the sake of saving finances, true artists should never spare any ounce of creative drive, at any cost. i judge things on how i can produce them myself & this isnt even a creative twit-pic concept, when looking at the cover you think- “are you fuckin kidding me?” the sad part is, they arent kidding. the good news is that they have the rest of 2010 to redeem themselves. [SOURCE]
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