Carine Roitfeld For V#74 Winter 2011

Candice Swanepoel and Joan Smalls

Carine Roitfeld styled four covers for V Magazine #74 Winter 2011 and while a bit of a colorful clusterfuck, the compelling images work to decimate the antiquated boundaries of color. The eight models that Carine chose for her covers represent the cultural corners of the world, colorfully displaying the ideals of beauty of Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and America: Candice Swanepoel and Joan Smalls; Daphne Groeneveld and Saskia de Brauw; Sui He and Hanaa Ben Abdesslem; and Bambi Northwood-Blyth and Lindsey Wixson. Carine explains her inspiration: “It’s a big moment of change in fashion. In some cases, you feel like it’s the end of an era. I have been feeling this with cover subjects, and especially models. These eight girls are unique, not one is like the other. Candice is the only blonde and blue-eyed of this new generation of supermodels. Joan is black, Sui He is Asian, Hanna is North African. It’s their diversity that makes each of them, to me, truly modern. They bring a new energy to fashion.” Terry Richardson photographed the cover images. I love the array of languages spoken by the models so I have listed them below (English is assumed) along with the country of origin of each model. Which of the four covers is your favorite?

Daphne Groeneveld and Saskia de Brauw

Candice Swanepoel
South Africa
Portuguese and Afrikaans

Joan Smalls
Puerto Rico
Spanish

Daphne Groeneveld
Netherlands
Dutch

Saskia de Brauw
Netherlands
Dutch

Bambi Northwood-Blyth and Lindsey Wixson

Sui He
China
Mandarin

Hanaa Ben Abdesslem
Tunisia

Bambi Northwood-Blyth
Australia

Lindsey Wixson
America

Sui He and Hanaa Ben Abdesslem

V Magazine cover images styled by Carine Roitfeld © 2011 V Magazine, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Comments

[bernie]

Is that a Balenciaga hmmmm

[madeleine gallay]

I really like these ... popping right off the page

Carine is seriously making bank. Love her not looking back at French Vogue. Rocking.

[kellina]

Bernie, you know it is! No nuance escapes your sharp eye. Thanks for the retweets, dear, and for your comments, it is so nice to know when someone is listening out there. Mwah!

[kellina]

Yes, yes, MG! As someone said, wish I remembered the source, Vogue Paris did not make Carine, Vogue Paris will not unmake Carine. She is everywhere! Love!

Carine's World, party on!

[kellina]

It's all in the details, the fish blowing bubbles does it for me.

[bernie]

Now im having a hardtime..cause idk what issue should I buy lol..is Carine the new EIC of V? ;)

[anonymous]

go to see a very exclusive inside look of the Vampire bal of Carine on http://purple.fr/television/

amaziiing

[Kate]

These are great! I like cover number 3 the best, the blue background and the blowing of bubbles make it...