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V Magazine’s first foreign edition inaugurates V Spain with supermodel Adriana Lima on the Mario Sorrenti-shot cover of their “The Sexy Body Issue.” The issue will hit newsstands on June 22nd.
Despite the fashion world’s stick thin model domination, V Magazine has decided to devote an entire issue to curvier women, reports the U.K.’s Daily Mail.
“The Size Issue” includes a high-fashion photo shoot with women who are proud to flaunt their thicker thighs, fuller tummies, large breasts and even their love handles.
The voluptuous models are clad in very little throughout the spread, wearing items like a pair of Guess jeans without a top, Dolce & Gabbana lingerie, a Gucci swimsuit, or in one shot: nothing but some fire engine red lipstick.
Solve Sundsbo, the Norwegian fashion photographer who shot the spread, told the Daily Mail that he “loved the opportunity to show that you can be beautiful and sexy outside the narrow interpretations that normally define us.”
And while plenty of models will most likely turn up their noses at the issue, 2010 might be the year for the plus-sized model.
In recent months, model Lara Stone has become famous in her own right, despite her size eight figure and trademark gap-toothed smile, while Beth Ditto, lead singer of the Gossip, has found runway success with her plus-sized collection for Evans in the U.K.
V Magazine’s “Size Issue” hits newsstands on January 14.
source: nydailynews.com
Tongues are wagging about Steven Meisel’s latest story. Originally shot for Italian Vogue, it was then dropped by the magazine as it was too racy. This editorial, all phosphorescent whites (a result of night vision shots) was eventually published by V magazine. This features models Anna Selezneva, Daul Kim, Iris Strubegger and Naty Chabanenko in sexually explicit poses.
Steven Meisel – “Dogging”, 2008 – V magazine
The story is said to by shocking as it reflects a sexual practice galled “dogging” (well quite similar to “cruising” if it were to involve men only!). This practice was actually beautifully and well documented by Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki throughout the seventies in a series of pictures called “The Park”. The eerily and strange composition of these shots (all taken under cover in different parks in Tokyo, and documenting both “cruising” and “dogging” phenomenons) puts the spectator on the same line as the creepy voyeurs in the pictures.
Kohei Yoshiyuki – untitled, 1971 from “The Park”
Here Steven Meisel revisits Kohei Yoshiyuki ‘s work – recreating several shots in a fashion manner, but his models are just posing with little designer clothes on, playing adult stuff, while Kohei Yoshiyuki’ stolen depiction of his subjects leave you with an uneasy feeling of awe, curiosity and lust.
Kohei Yoshiyuki’s book, “The Park” was reprinted by Hatje Cantz and the Yossi Milo Gallery. It features the complete series as well as an essay and an interview of the photographer with Nobuyoshi Araki.
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