Magazine Madness: Interview Scarlett Johansson on October 2013

Interview October 2013

Even appreciating her performances in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation and Joss Wehdon’s The Avengers, I seldom collect magazines featuring Scarlett Johansson at front cover, until Interview October 2013 issue. Shot by professional Patrick Demarchelier, Scarlett’s cat eyes are gazing firmly, full lips are alluring sensually and her curly hair is falling downward, elegantly. By adapting black-white and metal-brown hues, the close-ups sexually exhibit Dolce & Gabbana bodysuits. Especially the third picture, which shows the use of light-dark of palm tree shadows creating the spotlight-alike effect on Scarlett, and her lazy sitting posture pops up the features of Prada heels.

For what I love most about Interview magazine, not only because of those amazing cover designs (and astonishing fashion campaign shoots) after April 2008, but also the Q & A among the professionals and celebrities, such as Sofia Coppola by Richard Prince or Scarlett Johansson by Darren Aronofsky. Those direct without modifying conversation is what most readers (I believe so, because I am one of them) want to spend precious time to enjoy and digest. Between the casual chat lines on the actress and director, we know their exact SAT scores (one got 1080 and the other got 1360), the lives in New York (since Scarlett Johansson still keeps the rejection letter from NYU Film School), those perspectives in Taiwan (Darren quotes from his friend that the best Chinese food is Taiwan) and the curiosity toward hairy-crab in Shanghai. 

Interview magazine is purely genius, from the forbiddances of some reporters’ craps to the selections of photography. Nevertheless, one small thing annoys me is that those unfinished interviews always being placed at the last few pages, perhaps it saves some trees; truly, all we picky viewers just want to devour both texts and pictures at once, discontinuously.

Photography:

www.interviewmagazine.com

Magazine Madness: ELLE October 2013, Where the Hell is Georgia May Jagger?

ELLE Finland October 2013

Half-veiled look, poppy red lips, happy teeth gap, golden sleek hair-fall plus those layering-hue fonts and only 3,90 euroa, I couldn’t help but purchasing ELLE Finland though my reading ability is still at the beginner’s phase. October issue front features rock ‘n’ roll Georgia May Jagger, rare but exciting cover girl to continuously discover deep.

In any case, it is available to have free pageviews at magazine stands, still, in order to keep the ‘readable availability’, I would like to save some surprises back home. Out of my surprises, though Miss Jagger graces cover front grasping my heaps of attentions, page by page, only 12.5x19 rectangle column, titled as ‘Tyylitaituri: Georgia May Jagger’ on p.21; there is none of interview or profile, zero page of fashion campaign of Georgia, Nothing, Nay, NO.

To Whom It May Concern:

ELLE Finland tiimi, may I have your thoughtfulness please, that shall you realise we readers most of time would judge the magazine by its cover, even though we know it’s wrongful to apply this tip on homo sapiens. Still, putting a cover girl, especially a quite well-known and interesting face on your front cover, should you understand that not inserting fashion campaign nor interview of her is nearly a rip-off scam, no matter you down-cost the magazine from 5,80e to 3,90e or whatsoever.  

Yet, your ‘Katu Tyyli’ is still well-edited and inspiring, ’92 Upeaa Syys-Takkia’ is lovely to read. Nevertheless, in the following months, please think twice when you decide the cover girl candidates, either reporting a good project with some fashion efforts or leave it without disappointing the readers for good, since you may never know what kind of readers you are going to confront.

With not that Best Regards,

Mindy Yuan 

Photography & Works Cited: www.elle.fi