Here's the cover:
You can see a larger high-res version over at Vanity Fair's website.
Normally, I would rank them and be all "this one is good for x,y,z reason and this one is bad for x,y,z reason" but really, the winner is so obvious that I'm gonna stop talking and let her tell you herself:
Congrats, Adepero Oduye (above), star of "Pariah," for being the only one in the photo who looks like an actual human being (with Jessica Chastain being a close second except not really because even she looks a little plastic and poseable). Now what did you think of the...
Okay, wait, I just wanted to add that Rooney Mara is THE WORST, Mia Wasikowska is completely unrecognizable, Shailene Woodley looks like she needs to see a chiropractor, Paula Patton (whom I adore) looks bored as all hell, Jennifer Lawrence's hair looks Aqua Netted beyond repair, and the last three actresses on the inside flap are probably the same person just duplicated in Photoshop.
Never again, Mario Testino, never again.
Okay, now what did you think of the 2012 Vanity Fair Hollywood cover?
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4 comments:
Didn't they do this same cover in the 2008 Hollywood issue? All pale dresses and pale backgrounds and pale makeup and two lone women of color (inside the flap, of course) that look amazing because they're the only person you can see in the sea of Easter Egg colors? (Well, one this time around because those Princess Leia mini buns are doing NOTHING for poor Paula so let's not draw attention to her situation.) But whatever happened to contrast? This is a total YAWN.
Rooney Mara looks like she will kill the stylist, which I totally support. And then Jessie J will kill her to get her wig back. The cirrrrrrcle of life...
Hahaha. Paul, I linked to the 2008 cover but I never looked at it and forgot that YES they did do pretty much the exact same cover three years ago. I suspect at the pitch meeting, someone was all "Yes, they're similar but this shoot will have more BLUE!"
So over Vanity Fair. Side discussion: we need to get Jessie J and Rooney "I'm the WORST" Mara in a room together. Scream if you want to.
I think a couple of those girls were pretty production assistants they threw in to fill out the gatefold. Would it kill them to put a gal on the cover who's not sample size? They could glam up Octavia for example? Maybe Melissa McCarthy? That would have shaken things up. Who are we more likely to remember in five years anyway, Oscar winner Octavia or Lilly Collins, whoever she is.
Lily Collins be Phil Collins' daughter which is the only reason she's on the cover, "famous," or an actress. Listen I love Laura Dern and Martha Plimpton but they have Hollywood family connections and PERSONALITY. Collins, Emma Roberts, Mara... UGH!
And of course I agreed with everything else u said.
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