Vogue US July 2010 - Review

MAGNIFICIENT OBSESSION

Photographer : Peter Lindbergh

Models : Natalia Vodianova & Ewan McGregor

Fashion Editor : Grace Coddington

What you will like about it

• The photos are like snapshots from a 1950's movie. 
• Ewan McGregor is the star of this shoot.  He blew me away.  He is such a great actor, so good at communicating a wide range of emotions, that even in 2-D, frozen on glossy paper he was able to make the character alive. A tour de force!
• Beautiful choice of clothes : hourglass dresses, full skirts and perfect accessories such as gloves and brooches.  Full skirts were part of the New Look in 1947 and reigned until the early 1960's.  If you want to read more about it, I wrote a post on the New Look : http://maketheworldaprettierplace.blogspot.com/2010/05/history-of-fashion-new-look_11.html

What you won't like

• Natalia Vodianova was not the right model for this editorial.  I don't know if it's because she looks extremely young in some photos or the fact that she isn't as good at expressing emotions as Ewan McGregor.  It just doesn't work. 
• I don't feel any chemistry between the co-stars.  They look like they are each doing their own thing in some of the photos.
• The editorial presents two different hairdos : the beehive à la Prada for fall and the hair down with no particular style.  The beehive looks really good but after the sixth picture, it gets boring.  The hair down look could have been more styled, maybe like it was on Marion Cottillard.