I guess one can say that I read a lot of fashion magazines. Probably more than anyone I know. This means that I have read many editorials and texts of fashion editors, directors and stylist praising the latest trends. At the moment of course, fashion mags are full with the fall/winter collections and I read stuff like “Fall Must-Haves” and “What to wear now” in every single one of them. Editors write that the time of 52 different kinds of grey is over and that it’s time for beautiful colors like orange and green. This made me think. If the majority of designers had shown only shades of black and grey in their fall collections, we would now read things like “The new trend color grey” or “Grey: versatile and classic”.

Every season, editors and fashionistas around the world praise the trends that designers set. And it seems like every trend can be justified. Take for example florals. Now, they might be described as “The comback of femininity”. In a few months the same editors or blogger or whoever interested in fashion might describe florals as “tacky and old fashioned”.

Even I find myself hating things that I loved some time ago. Are we too influenced by the media? Do designers make the trends? Does that make us hypocrites? All I know is that fashion should not be taken too serious (wait…what…did I just say that?!) and that everyone should wear what they feel comfortable in. I just wish that fashion magazines could come up with new headlines and stop the same old recycled terms like “new key-pieces”. Fashion magazines should be more opinionated. Just because something is new or someone important created it, does not make it a “must-have”.

Anyways, I do love my fashion mags and this isnt really a major issue, it’s just something that I found a little bit irritating. But maybe that’s just me…

Miranda Kerr got the cover of the September issue of Vogue Italia. Of course this is a huge thing in the fashion industry and it marks the peak of Miranda’s career. The photos shot by Steven Meisel show lots of different sides of Miranda and she is great at posing! I mean…look at all her bending and jumping and trying to hide her baby bump ; ) Anyways, beautiful ed, cute cover with her dog Frankie and the fact that it’s in 3D makes me even more anxious to buy the issue.

Thanx to mayfrayn at TFS for scanning.

You all probably know this, but for those who dont: The September issues of fashion magazines are the most important ones of the year. So it’s always interesting to see what covers the magazines come up with. While Vogue US and Vogue UK published very boring covers, having Halle Berry and Kate Moss on them, Australian Vogue and Harpers Bazaar - in my opinion - have the best September issues of the year. Elle Macpherson still looks stunning for her age and presents the pink feminine Louis Vuitton dress very well. It’s like couture mixed with a casual vibe, because she’s not wearing shoes. Even more amazing is Cat McNeils Vogue cover, I love the 50s meets Rock n Roll style. The third Septmeber cover that I like comes from Vogue Portugal. It is a bit weird, because it’s black and white and Olga almost looks like a ghost, but the way the dress and her hair are blown by the wind is a real eye-catcher on a cover. I’ll definitely try to get my hands on the three magazines and will -again- skip Vogue US, sorry Anna.

I found it! The best cover of the summer! And who thought it would be Alessandra Ambrosio for RUSSH? I used to think that Ale’s look is quite boring but this beauuuutiful cover and the editorial prove me wrong. Ale can be versatile. And RUSSH can come up with good covers. What a surprise. Anyways, on another note I wanna apologize for not blogging that much lately, but even a blogger needs a small summer break ; )

I guess it’s fair to say that Natasha Poly is one of the most successful models of the past 5 years. For the month of July 2010 she is currently on three Vogue covers, two of them took a reprint from Vogue Paris’ May issue and look sooo summery, the covers make you wanna get your bikini and jump into the next pool. Especially Vogue Korea did a really great job in my opinion. I am not sure if any other model has had three Vogue covers in one month so, congrats Natasha!

I’m such a lover of good magazine covers. You could give me a big package full of random magazines and I would be so excited to look at all the covers. Good photography is important and a good styling of the model as well. PUSH IT magazine has their PUSH IT I Issue 2 -Defender issues out now and shows four different covers all shot by Frank Berlin. My favorite? The one with the unforgettable gold Alexander McQueen dress…

…at least the life of those models! I love these two pictures of an editorial for Glamour magazine. They make me wanna eat ice cream and wear candy colors everyday! Oh and I wanna buy balloons!

And another fashionable weekend is over! I cant believe that my time in Munich will be over in two weeks. On friday I was invited to the presentation of the new Tigha collection. Tigha makes beautiful leather jackets, they’re so soft, I couldn’t stop touching them. On that picture above that I took, the one on the right was my favorite. Loved the shoulder pads! On saturday I checked out this really cool store called Soda. They sell pretty much every fashion magazine in the world and also lots of art and design books. I spent 30 minutes in there just looking at all the covers and ended up buying the new TUSH magazine. Here are some pics I took…

I really think her only chance to sleep is on the plane, how else is this possible? By “this” I mean two Victoria’s Secret events, an i-D cover, an ELLE cover (which will be published tomorrow, but the two pics on the left are from the editorial) and rumors about several campaigns in one week. I don’t really like the i-D cover, weird pose and her hair looks bad, BUT it’s an i-D cover and that’s amazing. I want her to do less VS stuff and more runway! Fingers crossed for next fashion week!!!

Well…. I have to love this cover, simply because it shows Claudia Schiffer with her amazing super pregnant body. The whole nude concept (I’m talking about the colors) of the cover is great, it’s nice that they chose a background like that instead of just white. BUT - if I ignore the Claudia obsessed fan in me I have to admit that a whole issue dedicated to Claudia is a bit boring. Why? Because as pretty and amazing as she is, Claudia tends to look similar in every shot. And by the previews of the editorials Ive seen, this is exactly the case here. Still, I cant wait to get my hands on this issue and let the Claudia Fan in me have a party while reminiscing about the 90s when she was still with David Copperfield…

thanx again to helligirl for scanning