EDITOR’S LETTER
Isuppose, thanks to the film of the same name, much is made of Vogue’s annual September issue, but March is just as significant for us. As a celebration of a new spring/summer international season, it always delights me to see it come together. The issue becomes our team’s expression of the new shapes, colours and ideas for your wardrobes. Like September, we also focus on the new accessories of the season and the trends you need to know.
So this March, we encourage you to think about pastels in a new way. They’re thoroughly modern in new silhouettes and fabrics (see page 224). The 80s have been revived, as you’ll read in Alison Veness’s story on page 212. Fashion editor Kate Darvill and photographer Nicole Bentley explore this theme in their “Electric Dream” shoot from page 160, again bringing modernity to it.
The sad and untimely death of George Michael last year had me rewatching his wonderful video clip Freedom! ’ 90 from the album Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1. While the old cassette player sound system, telephone cord and smoking firmly date it in 1990, the exquisite supermodels look as superb today lipsyncing the lyrics as they did then. Cindy Crawford is unmistakable with her mole and perfectly symmetrical face, recognisable even upside down in a bathtub. This month we reunited her with stylist Paul Cavaco, who has worked with her many times during that era and since, for our cover shoot. He and photographer Emma Summerton have reimagined her in minimal black, really allowing her beauty to tell the story against a rich backdrop. On the eve of her visit to Australia for Omega, we celebrate her enduring beauty, work ethic, motherhood and success in all areas of her life. As she says, modelling is just what she does, not who she is. She’s so much more than just a beautiful face in a picture, as Zara Wong discovers from page 188.
We also feature, from page 216, the upcoming Andy Warhol exhibition – Adman: Warhol Before Pop – at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, which displays some of his incredible early advertising work for Vogue and many other clients. Vogue has such a rich history documenting the most talented, fascinating and influential people of our times, and looking back on Warhol’s brilliance years later makes us proud to work for a masthead that has such a long history publishing the best and most wonderful imagery, be it in photography or illustration.
Enjoy the March issue.
Edwina McCann Editor-in- chief