Last week, I covered Gisele Bundchen’s Vogue Brazil cover for June – she was photographed by Mario Testino, and it was like he dropped her into a vat of oil and leather. I hated that pictorial. But Gisele also covers the new issue of Vogue Italia, this time with a photoshoot done by Steven Meisel. I’m including the newsstand cover (pedicure) and the subscriber’s cover (headshot). Is it just me or does the pedicure shot harken back to a lot of fashion mag covers in the 1990s? I do like that Gisele looks more “real” here than when Testino was photographing her.
Incidentally, I just read this little piece of history on The Fashion Spot – apparently, this is Gisele’s 122nd appearance on a cover of Vogue (counting all international editions) and that makes her the most Vogue-y model ever. No other model has scored as many Vogue covers as Gisele.
But really, I’m just writing this up because Vogue Italia released a video of their photoshoot with Gisele and OMG OMG. This video is the craziest, most amazing thing you’ll watch all day. I do have to warn you – this is NSFW. It has Gisele Butt. But if you have the time and inclination, you should watch this. Over and over!
Photos courtesy of Vogue Italia/TFS.
she looks great, lovely photos. now let me go shove a donut in my mouth so I’ll feel better.
(I can’t watch the video till I get home)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Creepy Kardashian blood face!
Drop. Dead. Gorgeous. There is a bit of a throw-back to the late 80s/early 90s aesthetic, but it’s in that great, glam power-woman way.
+ 1. She is truly the last real supermodel.
I agree — she looks amazing.
I agree with you all!
I felt a bit of a fashion nostalgia looking this photoshoot.
Completely agree with you; she looks stunning. Her bone structure is incredible.
Love this bitch. WERK!
WORD. Soooo good.
I actually love them. The cover is gorgeous, and the inside shots are different and kind of weird, but in a good way.
She looks beautiful but I still think she’s an idiot.
^^ This. All day long.
+1. She’s much better to take when her mouth is shut and she’s not dropping her pearls of wisdom on us.
There we go. I have a thing for smart women, but she is undeniably gorgeous. I’m jelly of her hair for sure.
That video was kind of awesome, too. All of the not speaking she did…
LOve them I like the 90’s looks to them. I miss supermodels being in fashion magazines.
I do too.It was a event to pick up a fashion magazine back then.Say what you want,love or hate her she is a MODEL!She know’s how to pose and work in front of a camera.She remind’s me of the great 60’s model Verushka.Not sure how to spell her name but they have the same body and face.
+1
Me too! Now many models are so interchangeable it’s difficult to tell them apart. Boring. Gisele is one of a kind.
The whole shoot is so mid-nineties – and I mean that in the best way. Back when I had the time to read every single word in each issue of vogue. Chanel, dolce, Versace – those were the days of conspicuous consumption 🙂
RIGHT Like Im not into her at all But this was just a delicious Throwback
She’s amazing. This woman knows her angles so well and pulls off any pose. She’s the only real non-retired supermodel. All those others…just no.
The Asian women are offensive though. They make white models Asian by taping their eyes and other racist bullshit. They rarely get a cover but they can act as props for white models (e.g. Lebron and Gisele) and now this. Goddamn fashion world, despicable. I wonder if Bundchen even cares or notices this? Or is she used to it? Instead of condemning mothers who don’t breastfeed and talking about sunscreen, she should address matters that really impact people’s lives. She’s rich, famous and celebrated enough to voice her opinion.
ITA -i hated the fact they used asian ladies.
why only asian ladies?
why not a mix? why not men?
way to perpetuate stereotypes.
well, i guess it is just vogue?
Well to be honest stereotypes start for a reason. All the nail salons in every state I have lived have all had asians working/owning them.
Unless I go into a salon/spa then there is a mix of women all types.
So maybe they are being true to life? I only know of one nail salon that is owned by a Caucasian in my area and she is slowly going out of business because her prices are much much higher than any Asian salon around.
I’m with hadleyb. All of the nail salons I frequent have only asian aestheticians. Hardly racist, just a factual accuracy. In fact these ladies are probably not models but actual aestheticians.
Just because they’re some truth to a stereotype, doesn’t make it right for Vogue to perpetuate ONLY this certain image. There are a lot of Asian models, businesswomen, social workers, doctors, lawyers… There’s a variety, one that Vogue will never acknowledge because they only exist to ‘serve’ or to perpetuate the greatness of white models.
Like I said, they rarely put POC on covers, they change white people’s features. If only white people are good enough for the cover then why are they using minorities in a stereotypical role? There aren’t any white beauticians all of a sudden? So we notice the Asian beauticians but not the white ones? But we don’t notice the lack of Asian models (or any non-white model) and think this image is totally ok and the norm?
And fyi, I live in the UK but come from another country and I have yet to see the majority of nail salons employing only Asian women. It depends where you live I suppose but let’s not fool ourselves that Asians only do this kind of work and therefore it makes it ok for Vogue to be racists pieces of shit. Many blogs have written about their attempt to not be so racist or to explain their ‘artsy’ outlook on this matter, you should look into it:
http://jezebel.com/5018839/vogues-not-racist-three-black-models-prove-it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/13/french-vogue-photographs-outrage
http://jezebel.com/5836896/italian-fashion-editor-tapes-models-eyes-into-slants-for-vogue-japan-asian-writers-offended
It bothered me that I hadn’t noticed, so I scrolled back up. Now. I don’t have the actual magazine, so maybe I’m seeing this wrong, but I counted two Asian women, a woman who appears Latina in profile, and a pretty clearly white woman in the group “serving” Giselle on the cover. Maybe that’s why I didn’t notice. There was nothing to notice. Looks like an ethnic cocktail to me. In the video, I honestly never noticed anyone except Giselle. It was a great video.
True. I don’t like using the Asians in this way either. Ugh.
Spot on nm9005! As if women of color were only good enough to serve white women! I doubt giselle notices, after all she is from brazil which has a very eurocentric view on beauty.
The second part of your comment is so spot on. It’s sad.
I agree. I think it is really offensive and it probably didn’t even occur to anyone on that shoot that it would be so (that’s how clueless they seem to be).
Have to say I noticed this too. Kind of surprising no one thought, hey maybe this isn’t the best idea.
This is why she is the one of the world’s top models – she’s perfect for it and she’s good at it.
Eh… plus she’s had work done so I’m not impressed.
I need my eyes checked!
I just don’t see anything cute about her or her. Let me not be mean! The hat on the last picture is beautiful & a lovely color. 😉
I really don’t like the photos…and I find her facial expressions so vacant for the most part. Kind of creepy.
Gisele has been packaged and marketed so well that people actually believe that she is beautiful. I don’t find her attractive at all. She’s model pretty meaning she has the right features, body type and a very unique look(androgynous). Adrianna Lima is beautiful, Angelina Jolie is absolutely stunning. To each their own but Gisele, really?
She looks like Malificent in the close up and I thought she was against photoshopping?
*is confused*
why is her name on the cover?
hard enough to separate her stupidity/sanctimony from her face as it is.
Ha!
Wait.. It’s fall already?
Sorry but I don’t find her attractive.
Horsey
She’s reminding me of Celine Dion in that video with her spastic movements.
I love the last outfit. I could never wear all of that at the same time but she looks good.
She reminds me of Barbra Streisand in that last photo. Not a fan of the overall shoot but she has a world class a** and should flaunt it at every opportunity 🙂
Her neck is freaking me out! She’s great at what she does, a supermodel in the truest sense.
wow, though she hates the use of photoshop, she should be thanking the graphic artist who worked on these because they actually made her look kind of feminine in these shots.
My thoughts too. I think she just hate photoshop when it benefits anyone else!
I noticed that too. She looks…softer, not as angular as she usually does. Much more feminine.
I only like the picture where she’s wearing the sunglasses. I really don’t get her appeal.
Not a big fan of Gisele’s – I find her pompous without a good excuse for being so – but she is a great model, and I wish fashion magazines would go back to using professional models for their covers and editorials, instead of whatever celebrity flavor-of-the-month is available.
I think she looks absolutely stunning in these pics. Love them.
beautiful pics,she has healthy glow on her face
Everything is beautiful except for that putrid orange-beige lipstick. That looks disgusting.
I want Absoultely Fabulous to do a spoof on that awful video. It’s so bad, it’s awesome!
I never understood the hype. She’s fug to me
Giselle is getting a bit overexposed, like Kate Moss. She’s not a bad model, but she’s in everything and models for everything so I’m not sure what her brand is supposed to be.
so very Barbra Streisand…oy
i think she looks like a little like a young Barbara Streisand in the last pic.
She has always reminded me of a drag queen doing an epic Streisand.
The only thing attractive about her is her body. If she shrunk 9 inches, everyone would call her ugly.
Green is her color – she rocks that hat. The last photo reminds me a little of Cindy Crawford back in the eighties.
She’s the perfect model. I don’t know how anyone can look at her and not think she’s physical perfection personified.
Her modeling was pretty bad. Wow.
Lol. What are models supposed to do in your opinion?
i dont think her face is the slightest bit pretty
but her legs are amazing
She just happens to be the best known model in the industry but that doesn’t mean all the other top models are particularly pretty either eg. Karlie Kloss or Daria Werbowery or Kate Moss or whatever. The list goes on. They all have distinctive features but not symmetrical barbie looks. No one is perfect and not every model has to look like she’s out of a cookie cutter mould.
so what if she is the best known? i am not really sure what your point is. yes, im sure some one somewhere thinks she is pretty. but there are also a bunch of posts in this thread saying they dont think so.
I think she’s stunning, as usual. She’s a natural beauty who photographs extremely well, and her body is sick.
She looks like Babs in some of those pictures. Like Barbra Streisand at the top of her game.
Gisele knows how to work the cameras. High-fashion or commercial modeling…she gets it. She can crossover either way and not damage her career like it had done to some models. The last supermodel, indeed.
She is not pretty in a conventional sense, but she has amazing bone structure and her physique makes for the angles that photographers love to work with when they take photos.
Her face also knows how to convey emotions and expressions other than “I’m so sexy, look at my open mouth!”-pose.
She looks fierce and confident in this shoot, but there’s also that wistful look in her eyes, exactly like how the photos come across as a throwback to the 90s.
That photo with the white hat is gorgeous. There’s just white background and the focus is on the model, but the photos don’t look “cheap”. Gisele is working it.
i want the last outfit with the purple sweater. italy fashion rocks.
she looks slightly christy turlington-esqe in the one with the white hat. i think it’s her nose profile from that angle….
yea, i don’t undertand why people always say ‘she’s not even pretty’. she’s a model-as in high fashion. which is high art. it’s about lines, composition, etc. not selling a t shirt at kohl’s. lol
I wonder which photoshop filters they used on these pics?
Pictures are gorgeous, but the video is weird.
I basically like these, except for the orange lips shot, which I think is kind of ugly. I agree with the commenter above about the Asian ladies waiting on her though. But overall, these are pretty pictures.
She has the best hair in the business & seeing these pics reminds me why she’s a “supermodel”.
I’m getting a sixties Sophia Lauren/Raquel Welch feel from her in these.
She’s looking a little rough! Not sexy at all. Nice song tho.
AWE.SOME!
Good thing she’s photogenic, because the *itch is absolutely brain dead. Thank goodness nannies are raising Tom’s kids.
Hate the message it’s sending with the Asian women positioned BELOW her. Can we be anymore stereotypical??
Thanks for setting us back Vogue!
Oh, and Gisele’s all photo-shopped, as usual.
I don’t know if she had rhinoplasty or they just photoshopped her nose, but she looks great. I am also glad she finally trimmed her 21 year old surfer chick hair. I like this glossy, bouncy style – much more chic.
I’m not a fan. The video was a bit spastic and I don’t like the shoot. Overall I think it’s a bit racist to use asians as objects. I don’t find her attractive but could see how others do. Her ass in that video however, yuck. No thank you.
I’m not sure if Vogue Italia does the same as the US counterpart but usually when the story is about beauty procedures they are taken on location at a real clinic or a shop or something. So it might not be a racist move.