'La Dolce Vita'
Ph: Nick Haymes
St: Nancy Rohde
December/January 2009 Teen Vogue
I've actually been meaning to post this for a little while, ever since I decided that I would be going to Italy (and Venice) in my Europe trip. But this post by Victoria-Belle prompted me to jump the gun a little. What she said about Teen Vogue was very true. Beautiful, happy, joyful editorials litter Teen Vogue and it is a magazine that is aspirational and exciting, rather than condescending, patronising or even prescribing - like Vogue can be at times. Who could help being inspired and forever influenced by their particular brand of 'more-is-more' fashion, so much so, that even years later and with my head stuck in a minimalist hole in the sand, I wouldn't mind things like feather skirts, elaborate bow-tie chiffon shirts, long chain necklaces and leather leggings. It's that happiness thing. You want to wear clothes that the models look like they're enjoying. How do they do it? I mean, just how do they get pictures in Saint Mark's Square holding pigeons and not make it look like a dreadful cliche? I think it comes from the way that Editor Amy Astley looks at fashion with the eye of a teenager. Collecting together all that is hip and cool as well as producing images that - to an under-travelled young girl - seem so iconic and exotic (think Miley Cyrus on the roofs of Paris, or models traipsing through Peru in woven skirts and leather sandals). Being both trendy (urghh, i do hate that word) but also futuristic. The magazine offers many a pair of jelly-sandal or rag and bone piece to BUY NOW, and the editorials to mark IN THE FUTURE. I know I did that. When writing this I thumbed through my old copies of teen vogue, with pages ripped out as I hurriedly plastered them on my walls aged 14 and 15, and I found most of the editorials that had been dog-eared were the ones "on vacation". I remember being 15 and thinking, I want to go there and there and there, and I want to wear all of that when I go. Maybe now I don't quite want to wear things like bubble skirts or ruched leggings with high top sneakers. But I do still want to go to Venice, Brazil, Seoul, Tokyo, Cape Horn, Mexico City. And I think that it was Teen Vogue, with their energetic and exuberant images that made me think so.
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