LANA DEL REY: MARCH VOGUE UK COVER

Hmmm...

I know SO many people will be falling over themselves to say how beautiful she looks, and she does, but is anyone else kind of sick of having her shoved in their face?

Right now the PR campaign for Miss Del Rey is about as subtle as a ten-ton truck. Despite the album being resolutely panned pretty much everywhere, it seems we (and Vogue) are more than willing to over-look that because, AW, SHE'S SO PRETTY!

Whaddya think?

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VOGUE UK JUNE COVER

Alexa Chung covers next month's Vogue UK:

..I'm underwhelmed.

I hate to admit it, since I'm bound to get a lynching from her vast army of followers, but I'm not usually Alexa's biggest fan anyway, and this lacklustre cover just seals the deal. One. Trick. Pony.

Firstly, I DO like the Erdem dress, pendant and darker hair on Alexa - it's a grown up, classy look and frankly I'm just happy to see her out of her old battered brouges and tatty blazer combo which is normally her scruffy uniform. It's a very "English Rose" style and I've always felt she looks far better when channeling a feminine aesthetic like this...

But yet again it's the same gamine, coquettish look we've all seen ten million times before. I REALLY dislike her expression in this shot - she looks like she seriously can't be arsed, and the crossed arms add to that almost petulant attitude. Her cheekbone and collarbones seem really defined too - perhaps too much retouching? It reminds me of Lady Gaga in Born This Way. Plus, that weird sort of half-smirk?

Hate to hate but... Nah. I just don't dig it. Am I chatting mince? Tell me!

KATE WINSLET - VOGUE UK APRIL COVER

Still at my work experience this week, and loving it more and more with every day, but missing having the time to blog about LOADS of relevant things that keep cropping up in the world of fashion... How flingin-flangin inconvenient that the world doesn't revolve around me, eh?

AAANYWAY part of my job at the beeb is to collect cuttings from the daily papers on arts/culture stories that might be of relevance. While doing that very thing this morning I came across photo's from Kate Winslet's Mario Testino shoot for April's Vogue and jotted down (on my hand no less) WINSLET/VOGUE/BLONDE lest I forget to post on it when I had a spare second. I think it was in The Independent or The Telegraph, I'm not sure now...

Without further ado, here is the cover in all its STUNNING GLORY (courtesy of Coco's Tea Party who beat me to it. As usual. That girl is always one step ahead!)

WOWZERS, right? I was totally blown away! I don't think Kate has ever looked so beautiful, sporting this BOLD colour and cut - particularly apt cover title then...

Channeling Michelle Williams' gamine, bleached crop definitely works for Kate... in an editorial sense anyway. Can't lie though, it DOES make me nervous as a look for "real life" but for a fashion editorial, this hairdo is on the freakin' money.

Anyway, have a look at the article if you can (sorry I can't be more specific where I saw it, defo Independent or Telegraph) as it showed a few other looks from the shoot as well as the cover. She truly photographs stunningly. Mario Testino, you utter genius, you.
 
Also, ageless much? Seriously, Kate, your a grade A babe.