MediaSlut (@MediaSlut)’s choice of the best international and South African magazine covers this week:
- ELLE UK
- Feast (Chefs Issue)
- Le Parisien Magazine
- kykNET
- Taalgenoot
INTERNATIONAL
ELLE UK, May 2015
When I first saw the fully body cover of Rebel, I thought, “At last they took the risk of placing a full body picture of a bigger bodied woman on the cover!” — only to spot that this is actually the subscribers’ cover, and that the on-shelf cover is still the ‘safe option’ with a very (very) close crop.
Either way, I love her, and I love her black and white cover that the lucky subscribers received.
Make sure you watch the behind-the-scenes video here:
Feast
Dilemma: How to feature a wide variety of chefs in your “chefs issue”?
Solution: Place their beautiful dishes on the cover, on top of what looks like a tablecloth filled with their signatures!
Le Parisien Magazine, 27 March 2015
Jean Paul Gaultier is synonymous with these blue-and-white stripes, and so are the stripes to Gaultier.
For this issue with a focus on this “coolest fashion designer”, Le Parisien physically draped him the fabric, with him ‘climbing out of it’ limb by limb. Striking.
View the issue and article here, with some more pictures also.
LOCAL
kykNET, April–June 2015
The movie “Ballade vir ’n Enkeling” is making absolute waves in the Afrikaans community, with everyone wanting a piece of it, and some saying it’s the best Afrikaans movie so far!
kykNET relaunched its new (now quarterly) magazine with Armand Aucamp and Donnalee Roberts on the cover, as their characters Jacques Rynhard and Carina Human. The cover fits in perfectly with the tone of the movie, and makes me want to watch it even more now!
The new-look, new-everything magazine is also really good, actually, with great articles and features! Download the free issue from MySubs right here.
Taalgenoot, Autumn 2015
I’m really super-impressed with recent Taalgenoot covers, with this one reaching even new heights! An amazing concept coming together with great photography, lighting and styling!
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