VidFlip: V Magazine #57

mondblog VidFlip: V Magazine, Issue 57 from Raymond Navarro on Vimeo.

V's Spring Preview issue takes a step up from its predecessor. In at about the same weight as V56, what makes V57

 dazzle is the delivery of Nick Night's photo shoot with Lily Donaldson held at SHOWstudio. The live photo shoot was

 a thrill to watch as Donaldson struck pose after pose, leap after leap in those highly coveted heels and her Sam (McKnight) styled hair.

Visions of Donaldson wearing all Balenciaga, Lanvin, Maison Martin Margiela to that

 sole Jil Sander earring, were ripped and rendered on painted cardboard sheets giving the editorial the

 entrancing and complimentary contrast needed to pull of a great studio shoot. You've got to see it for yourself.

The biggest bummer of the issue is the one and only new shot of Grace Jones on the inside. Following her cover-

moment on Dazed and Confused last year, I was hoping for a gripping Grace fashion editorial but instead there were

 rehashed file photos such as past promotional shots and album covers. Talk about a disappointment.

 Though the strange and cinematic editorial featuring the likes of Abbey Lee, Catherine McNeil, Eniko Mihalik and Andrés

 Velencoso grew on me, after an initial reaction of, What the fuck? I was stirred by the unexampled

 shoot begging me to question why I did or didn't like certain photos; I liked that I was challenged  — I concluded

I really was a fan of the Sebastian Faena concept shoot.

Thanks again to V for always bringing a variety of conceptions in glamour, style and grace.

VidFlip: i-D magazine, The Beautiful Issue

MONDBLOG VidFlip: i-D, The Beautiful Issue from Raymond Navarro on Vimeo.

i-D is onto the track with cover girl Eniko Mihalik gracing 2009's first issue — The Beautiful Issue.
While the month of January is over, you've got to still have a glance at the fresh-faced models and striking SS09 clothing stuffed inside:
Gareth Pugh, Raf Simons, Chanel, Maison Martin Margiela, Fendi and more more more.  

Chuckling, Calvin Klein bearing cover boy Boyd Holbrook and a nude Anne Vyalitsyna make an annual February men's issue
I hope to be delivering to you soon. So stay tuned — next VidFlip is with the one and only German Zoo Magazine with Alana
Zimmer on the cover, Ash and Cole on the inside.