Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Magazine Madness: Sienna Miller, Cooking up a Storm--By Mario Testino

VOGUE UK, October 2015

Sienna Miller, describing herself ‘was and am, an incredibly fortunate person’, graces VOGUE UK magazine cover again since her first feature in 2004. For her, the past few years have encompassed motherhood, controversy, love affairs, hard-won success and, recently, a broken engagement (with actor Tom Sturridge). In front of the lens of Peruvian photographer Mario Testino, she reveals on the pages why she is not lingering badly on the past.

Sienna Miller catches more of my attention on her personal fashion styles rather than her actress career, all the time. While her roles such as Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl or Baroness in G.I. Joe bringing up her own characteristics, then Miller switches my preconception toward this Jude-Law-tabloid-It-Girl ever since. Her supporting roles in Bennett Miller’s Foxcathcer and Client Eastwood’s American Sniper in 2014 enhance this newly mother a more convincible touch. Under ‘the world’s most prolific magazine and fashion trade photographer’ Mario Testino’s gazes, Miller nails a 60’s factory girl on vintage crepe blouse, a femme fatale in Dolce & Cabbana evening black gown, or a 50’s Marilyn Monroe wearing Agent Provocateur, attractively. 

Testino’s photography is notable for the exotic hints, for Sienna Miller, her bare back with a slipping Michael Kors jersey poppy red dress, her angle face with rouge lips, her eye sight is slightly toward to upper right corner, as if she was caught by a close member who she should trust with, but yet unsuspectingly cautious. The 14-page fashion campaign is in such a sensual feels, for every page turn, Miller is natural and full of sentiment. As designer Stella McCartney states, that Miller ‘definitely knows when something is right for her. She looks good in everything but she won’t just wear anything’ (306).

 

Even though this New Your born British indicates that ‘meeting Jude was the most incredible experience’, still she was still subjected to hideous sexism and judgement.’ Through interviewer Emily Sheffield’s eyes, Miller is nothing to do with ‘diva’, ‘she is looking like any other young mother on a Monday night having just bundled her excited two-year-old into bed following a long day at work: tired, harried, hair a bit mussed, eye shadow caked into the creases of her eyelids’ (302). In front of the camera, Miller does own both the alluring and warming attractions, as of her many British peers, she fights for her off-screen life so hard to keep a healthy life, because she is ‘ not someone who is prone to deep self-examination‘ (307).

I like to collect the magazine whichever featuring Sienna Miller due to her photogenic smiles and great tastes. As for her acting appearance, I prefer admiring more and miss Twenty8Twelve, the fine fashion label that Sienna and her sister, Savannah co-designed when they were in their twenties.

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