The cover with Germany soccer players Mario Götze and Marco Reus was photographed by Robert Eikelpoth with the styling by Alexander Gabriel. While the other one with actor Robert Downey Jr. was by Inez & Vinoodh and styled by Nicola Formichetti.
Image via TFS.
You have seen the cover in which the creative director of Mugler and Lady Gaga’s stylist spreading his legs. Now you can see more from his inside editorial that was snapped by Kevin Amato in Nicola’s NYC apartment for the magazine!
Images via We The Urban.
The creative director of Mugler and the stylist of Lady Gaga was photographed by Kevin Amato in his NYC apartment for the cover.
Below are some of the excerpts from his interview for the magazine:
Advice on starting out in the industry: “I really encourage everyone to work in a store, that’s where I learned everything and met everyone. You work firsthand with clothing, do the windows and interact with customers and I think that for me personally, that environment really allowed me to enter the core of the fashion community. School is also very very important, and it’s where you get to meet other people like you and communicate. [Also] just keep in mind, if you’re into becoming just famous, fashion is not the place– It’s the wrong way to go about that sort of thing.”
On how he would like to be remembered: “This is interesting… I guess I want to be remembered as someone who was always trying to do something new and always pushing things. I care about what my friends think mostly, but I just want to be remembered as someone who was always honest and believed in what I was doing and never changed that.”
On his favorite fashion memory: “My mom was very glamorous in my eyes. She’s Japanese, and we lived in Italy, so she was the first one to introduce me to clothing and shopping. I used to go with her to the Italian boutiques like Armani and Versace and she was also the one who introduced me to Italian Vogue. It’s funny, my dad always thought my mom and I were crazy spending all of this money on clothes!”
On print and the new digital era: “I think it’s changed everything, and we just need to go for it. It’s about communication, I don’t believe print is going to die, but digitally you’re able to have a different experience. I think there are so many possibilities, and things we weren’t able to do before all of this. You know if you look at fashion shows [and technology] for example, there are live-streams and some people argue that enabling that is not keeping the mystique or exclusivity. But I’m always very open and I’d love for everyone to have front row seats! I mean for the first MUGLER show I did everything live: Backstage, before the show and even two days before and live-streaming the showroom fittings– everything and the response was incredible. I was asking the viewers their opinions and I felt like I had millions of stylists with me!”
On the word “inspiration”: “It comes when I’m not thinking about it, and when I’m trying to force myself to think about something it never comes… So I always let my mind wander, and when you’re not trying you know that you’ve got it. It’s interesting because I’ve been thinking about how creativity works and where it comes from and I’ve found that basically what I’ve been doing since I was little is daydreaming– Just kind of looking at anything.”
Image via We The Urban.
Dazed & Confused‘s covers are really diverse this year, in a good way. They produced some of the most interesting covers in their history.
We love Grimes‘ April issue, in which she was photographed by Hedi Slimane wearing the unmistakable Givenchy Spring Summer 2012 Haute Couture crystal nose ring and matching earrings. We love the crystal encrusted headpiece that artist Theo-Mass Lexileictous wears on the May cover, shot by Walter Pfeiffer. We love the eerie image of actor Noomi Rapace, by Sølve Sundsbø on the June issue. We also love how controversial their September issue was, with Azealia Banks blowing an inflated red condom, shot by Sharif Hamza.
Their October issue with model Joan Smalls and actor Sam Riley was subtly sexy yet seductive. They’re sensually bitting an apple to match the “Temptation” headline, photographed by Sean & Seng. Iris Apfel‘s November cover (in a bright Comme des Garçons voluminous dress) was one of our favourites this year as well. The 91 year old fashion icon looks amazing on the image snapped by Jeff Bark. Even though some people hated it, but their December issue with Angelababy, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, and Nicola Formichetti (all four images were photographed by Matt Irwin) was the most fun and playful images they’ve ever published.
The rest of the cover stars this year are actress Rooney Mara, rappers A$AP Rocky and Snoop Dogg, rising models Erjona Ala, Frida Aasen, Kati Nescher, Lara Mullen, and Zenia Sevastyanova.
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UPDATED NOVEMBER 14th 2012: Added three more covers featuring Angelababy, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and Nicola Formichetti via TFS. The covers were photographed by Matt Irwin.
The cover was photographed by Matt Irwin and guest edited by Nicola Formichetti.
Click here to view last year 20 different covers featuring Damian Hirst, Cillian Murphy, Eva Green, Kate Moss, Milla Jovovich, etc. Click here to view 2010 cover with Daft Punk, and here for 2009 cover with Abbey Lee Kershaw.
Image via TFS.
The fashion director of Mugler, Vogue Hommes Japan and Uniqlo, was photographed by Mitchell Nguyen McCormack for the second cover version from Glow Magazine Thailand.
The first released cover is featuring top male model Garrett Neff.
Image via Ohlala Mag.
The blond model is fronting the actual cover of the latest issue from Vogue Hommes Japan, photographed and styled by Hedi Slimane and Nicola Formichetti respectively.
Click here to view the black and white preview cover.
Image via TFS.
The first preview cover was photographed by Hedi Slimane and featuring model Gryphon O’Shea, with the styling works by Nicola Formichetti.
The issue will hit the newsstands on September 10th.
Image via TFS.
Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinodh Matadin photographed the 28 year old actor in Gucci and Giorgio Armani for two covers of the latest issue of VMAN with the styling works by Nicola Formichetti.
The new Peter Parker is interviewed by the original Spider-Man, Tobey Maguire, for the issue.
He is also featured on the Summer cover of i-D Magazine.
Click here to view last year cover featuring Alex Pettyfer and here for 2010 cover featuring Luke Briggs.
Images via TFS.
The final cover is featuring the same exact casts from on out of three teaser covers that was just posted few days ago.
Allen Taylor, Justin Halley, Dae Na, Zac Stenmark and his twin brother Jordan were all photographed in suits by Terry Richardson with the styling works by Nicola Formichetti.
Click here to view last year cover featuring Daisuke Ueda.
Image via TFS.
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