Lula Issue 15, 2012
Lula, a London based biannual magazine is a bit boyish British, yet frankly feminine French. Following the previous tradition, along with ‘Girl of My Dream’ highlight, Autumn Issue 2012 treats worldwide readers 3 diverse dreamy cover fronts.
Totally 240 pages, adopting glazed printing papers and grasping 30 various themes, Lula Issue 15 portraits the atmosphere of romantic nostalgia. On The Never-ending Story, French actress Clémence Poésy (Harry Potter, 127 Hours) talks to Sylvia Whitman about her father’s literary-legend bookstore in Paris, Shakespeare and Company; in Asleep & Dreaming, Lula team interviews 4 precious employees of Ritz Paris; in addition, for my favourite Parisian designers, Vanessa Bruno and A.P.C’s Jean Touitou and Vanessa Seward, Lula also nail them perfectly.
Out of great surprise, one of my admirable journalists, April Long, Senior Beauty Editor of ELLE USA (once music writer for NME and NYLON USA), features the chats with actress Kara Hayward of Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom. Long’s interviewing questions are comparatively short, such as ‘What are your favourite films?’ or ‘Do you have more movies lined-up?’, but can always evoke Hayward’s more words. The only defect of Lula, is that making Chinese model Wang Xiao (王瀟) into Le Petit Prince. For Wang’s mushroom haircut, flat cheekbones, unmatched bright purple eye shadow onto expressionless eyes and nearly upside-down echelon face silhouette teeter A/W 12 Emporio Armani Collection, especially on page 207, her dull and uncertain presence almost ruins the whole aesthetic campaign of Lula magazine.
Editor-in-Chief of Quotation, Toru Hachiga, in his From Magazine, interviews Leith Clarke and Becky Smith, 2 girly founders of Lula. They agree that contemporary fashion magazines are too relevant, but still hold strong beliefs that photography and beautiful magazines will continuously exist. Yes, completed with profile report of British supermodel Twiggy, Lula absolutely is we girls’ big dream.
Lula￡7,99 € 17,90 FIN. 570 TWD.Price could be various elsewhere.
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