VOGUE British June 2013
YES! Kate Moss is the cover girl again,
which, several euros must be spent, and bookshelf needs to be spaced! 2013 is
the year marks 2 decades of Kate’s first VOGUE British cover, and June issue is
Moss’s 33 rd appearance on the front. Comparing to other runway
super giants, Kate looks like a petite kitten, but quite on the contrary, her
anti-model-industry-regulation figure makes her styles much more down-to-earth
to we usual females, since it’s quite a rare chance owning 6 feet plus size 0.
Haute couture, high street, rock ‘n’ roll or beach chic, Kate nails them effortlessly
yet sexually.
Icon model teaming up with professional
photographer is an art asset. Totally 21 campaign pages at St. Barthes, PatrickDemarchelier invites Kate on his yacht for summer fashion shoots. Cat-eyed sunglasses,
nostalgic flora dress, white stripes, leopard-print bikini, straw hats, fuchsia
shorts and exotic earrings, with up-close fuzzy focus, the rich colours through
Demarchelier’s lens just never hide, even the mode is black-and-white. Susie
Harris on June issue article ‘What Makes a Model?’ points out that older
models, like male ones, really have more values nowadays, which is, ‘a backlash
against a raft of new models without life experiences’ (p.204). Since youth may
be clueless and hollow, gazers want to see the soul of life out of the pictures;
furthermore, social media drastically push the used-to-be-tiny-circle fashion
industry under the public spotlight, and turn the exclusive into inclusive.
Clients, photographers and viewers stress on attitude more than juvenile.
Indeed model agencies around the world also
try their best to search the ‘next new face’, while suddenly Cara Delevingne appears
almost everywhere: on the catwalks from Burberry to Fendi, on the front of British
VOGUE to i-D. She is comic with thick eyebrows, but she is also bizarre with
wide nasal alas, that makes her every photo shot like a camera shock.
A model is very much like an artist: their
existence becomes an overrated mania due to being both ecstatically and elaborately
flattered by PR, agents, journalists, designers or photographers. Although sudden
fame may be abruptly hot, true grace can last permanently.
Works Cited and Photography: British VOGUE
Harris, Sarah.
‘What Makes a Model?’. VOGUE UK, June 2013. London: Condé Nast, 2013.
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