Saturday, 16 March 2013

Vogue Documentry




Earlier this week I saw an advert on Sky Atlantic advertising a documentary about US Vogue magazine; The title of the documentary was "In Vogue: The editors eye".
Last Night I watched the documentary and found it to be really interesting. The documentary was about Vogue fashion editors past and present.
The documentary was created to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the magazine; and went behind the scenes as well as showing interviews of the editors. Archived footage was shown of iconic photo shoots and an explanation of the story behind them from the editor who was in charge at the time.

 Designers such as Vera Wang ( who used to work at Vogue as an assistant) and Marc Jacobs were interviewed about their experiences and features in the magazine.

Nicole Kidman and Lady GaGa were shown in the documentary through archived footage of their shoots and interviews. I found it quite interesting but not shocking that Lady Gaga turned up to her photo shoot dressed like a white nun!.

The editors past and present were interviewed about their time at the magazine and iconic work that was created in their era. Some of the editors that were interviewed in the documentary were Anna Wintour, Grace, Grace Coddington, Polly Mellen and Babs Simpson.
Each editor told how they put their own style into their time at the magazine and each talked about how it impacted the fashion world.
At the end of the documentary all the editors were filmed having a group photo shoot done for the magazine to celebrate 120 years of vogue.
I thoroughly enjoyed this section as it was like a live time line of Vogue fashion history



 I loved the Alice in Wonderland photo shoot as its quite a way from the children's story and has a sexy, moody adult like twist on it. Its border line dark and edgy.







The story of Maralyn Monroe was tragic and I think this image captured her sorrow as it was taken by Vogue a month before she died. She never saw the printed edition.




Here is the advert for the documentary. The full version is available on DVD and can be bought from Amazon.

1 comment:

  1. Earlier this week I saw an advert on Sky Atlantic advertising a documentary about US Vogue; The title was In Vogue: The Editor's Eye. Last night I watched the documentary and found it very interesting. The documentary was about Vogues fashion editor's over the years and was created to mark the 120th anniversary of the first edition.
    Designers such like Vera Wang (who used to be an assistant at Vogue) and Marc Jacobs were interviewed about experiences and features in the magazine.
    Nicole Kidman was also interviewed about a spread she did.
    The editors past and present were interviewed about their time at the magazine and iconic work that was created in their era.
    Some of the editors that featured in the documentary were Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington, Polly Mellen,Babs Simpson and Polly mellen.
    At the end of the documentary the past and present editors were having a group photo shoot for the magazine to celebrate it's 120th marker; I really liked the ending as it was like a timeline and told a great story.

    Here is the advert for the documentary and some of the images that the documentary talked about including the editor's photo shoot.
    I particuarly liked the Alice in Wonderland images as they were'nt so innocent looking but had a slight darkness to them
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZCxlSTrR8Y
    http://www.designscene.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Lady-Gaga-for-VOGUE-US.jpg
    http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/28100000/gaga-for-vogue-lady-gaga-28150025-1024-768.jpg
    http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/documentaries/in-vogue-the-editors-eye/in-vogue-the-editors-eye-1024.jpg
    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tkb7M29VXyA/UD5BL-NE1yI/AAAAAAAB1Kw/yuev1gCNGNA/s1600/img-editorseyeexcerpt09_150131833586.jpg
    http://ftape.com/media/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Vogue_Editors_Eye.jpg
    http://downloads.thedaily.com/ui-images/2012/12/01/120112-wknd-movies-vogue-editors-eye-barker-1-ss-662w-at-1x.jpg

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