I love Vogue, I love Cheryl Cole (who doesn't?) but this is completely wrong, for me anyway.
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| Vogue October 2010 |
I actually like the first Vogue cover Cheryl graced. She looked gorgeous, glossy and every inch the perfect cover star. Okay, so it was all a bit American and not very edgy at all, but it didn't offend me and it certainly didn't make me think twice before picking up the magazine.
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Vogue February 2009 |
This time round - well, I'm actually thinking of a protest non-purchase and leaving a gaping hole in the ten-year Vogue collection. It is that bad, I think.
The flowers are fussy, the face is flawlessly fake and the fashion has been forfeited in favour of a disturbing Stepford Wife-esque stare. This is not the Cheryl we love, need or want and even Vogue can't sell this image of the newly-single pop princess to me.
Everything about this cover is wrong, wrong, wrong and the more I look at it, the more I want to pour tar over the puke-inducing pink image. Are those cover stories deliberately ironic? From the 'fresh start' that may as well have been snipped from the stems of those awful flowers to the surely intentionally comedic 'Pure Style' scrawl that obscures what little we can see of the actual clothes that Cheryl wears, everything points to Vogue having a laugh at the expense of the nation's sweetheart.
Sadly, I do believe they are only laughing at the expense of the faithful readers (*me*) who buy every month no matter who is on the cover. I'm not a fashion fascist who thinks that it should only be models that grace the covers of fashion magazines - but I do think that if it's not a model on the cover, then there should be at least a degree of fashionability rather than accessibility about the cover star and their image.
This cover doesn't deliver for me but I'm sure it will deliver perfectly well in terms of sales for Vogue, which is probably just what the advertisers ordered/dictated. Us fashion fans? Let's hope this isn't the first in a long line of unfashionable disappointments from the magazine that was once our style bible.
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Duck
Totally agree!
ReplyDeleteAh I don't like that, it makes her look like Paris Hilton but with brown hair and eyes!
ReplyDeleteReally dislike all that pink - it's very Spring-like as well, what happened to AW?! XX
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Ok, I don't love her and I think this goes to show how commercial (read boring!) she is. Sorry, this came across as quite blunt but she riles me!!
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Caz x
Cant stand Cheryl Cole! Talk about being over-exposed and she is styled to within an inch of her life. If she was left to do it alone, she wouldn't have a clue. It would be velour tracksuits and uggs all the way!
ReplyDeleteI stopped buying Vogue a while ago. I think it completely misunderstands a chunk of it's young readership. I.e. people who are not interested in purchasing camel wool coats and gazing at the society pages.
Regarding the two covers, I prefer the most recent one...looks quite pretty/edgy in a LULU kind of way, unlike the older image, that makes her look..well...older and it's such a cliche cover image whatwith the fan blowing her hair all about etc.
hahaha. in my haste to be a negative cow, I mistyped 'LULA' xx
ReplyDeleteAnd there was me thinking I was going to get Team Cheryl bombarding me with hate messages - glad you guys agree!
ReplyDeleteI love Lula, Sarah, and if this is what Vogue were going for I think they've failed. And you're right about the styling - although I am a Cheryl fan (*guilty pleasure*) she wouldn't have a clue left to her own devices, but guess that's the way with most celebs these days! x x
To me this is just another example of where Vogue is continually going wrong. Bland, safe, uninspired styling, and insipid "celebrity" on the cover. Even Moss on the cover for September was positively boring. So continually disappointed by Vogue these days. CRANK IT UP! x
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Just came across this now and had to laugh given what I wrote about the same cover:
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