What's your favorite fashion magazine?

[BagLady]

Originally Posted by HuBBa

Got the Ottobre 2008 issue, i assume that is October =) What page is it on though? My italian is basically limited to si, no, prego and capisco niente

/Henrik

Ciao Henrik,

If it's AMICA n. 10 - Ottobre 2008, you have the October issue

No page number but it should be something like page 550.
The editorial is named "Dressed UP".

I hope that you weren't charged too much... It only costs 3 euro here!

[HuBBa]

Well travelling from Italy to here is expensive so it was about 8 euros + travel cost

And let me just say one thing... daeng... it almost looks like they did a high-pass "dragan-ish" to really accentuate any skin fluctuations. If you look close the skin isn't actually that bad to begin with, so had they NOT done this, it would have looked quite nice and smooth. And ofcourse he didn't use the most flattening (or flattering) lighting either.

But my personal opinion regarding these, and you have seen what i have produced to back that statement, is that these are nowhere near straight out of camera and they have been manipulated to look "worse" than they should. You see the telltale signs around their lips and eyes and edges of chin and cheek and such.

Now if the photographer actually did not do anything to these but basic colour&contrast and the rest is straight out of camera, i must say im impressed. He have almost pulled off a little Dave Hill without postprocessing ;D I mean just look at the edge of the face on the 4th picture, you see the very clear lighter line which you get when doing a too large radius on any sharpening technique. Usually high-pass =)

Feels like a publicity stunt too me.

[HuBBa]

(oh and having said that, the rest of the magazine was quite good so i'll be reading more of Amica i think

[BagLady]

Ciao Henrik!

Thanks for responding and going out of your way to get the magazine!

Well, you've confirmed my assumption that there was some extra sharpening going on there... In fact, I was pretty convinced that they ran a high pass filter but couldn't understand why on earth they'd want to do so, therefore, had doubts! I visited the photographer's web page and noticed that he likes detail... but this example in Amica is a bit too much for me! It's just as bad as seeing a photo that has been overly smoothed!!! Well, we're talking about it, so maybe their "publicity stunt" was a success! And maybe Amica has a new client! Glad you like the rest of the magazine.

[LESider]

Here is a link to the Amica photos if anyone else would like to see what baglady is talking about.
photos are the post on the bottom of the page.

http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums...r-72302-2.html

[BagLady]

Originally Posted by LESider

Here is a link to the Amica photos if anyone else would like to see what baglady is talking about.
photos are the post on the bottom of the page.

http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums...r-72302-2.html

Ciao LESider,

Thank you so much for posting a link to the images! I've been searching the net to no avail... Now, other members will be able to understand my post!

GRAZIE!!!!

BagLady

[camilla_k]

Originally Posted by sirespen

Baglady do you think that I'll found this magazines in Milan?
Ciao

YES, you can buy Volt in Milano!

[sirespen]

Ciao Camilla! I suppose you are from Milan? Dove la trovo?

Saluti

[camilla_k]

Originally Posted by sirespen

Ciao Camilla! I suppose you are from Milan? Dove la trovo?

Saluti

Hi again. Noooo, i'm so sorry. I don't know where you can find it...

and no I am not from Milan.
I live in London (but come from Norway of all places) haha

why dont you have a look at http://www.volt-mag.com/
and "stockist's"

good luck xx

[sirespen]

haha,ok :P
thx

[rvds]

I-D Magazine

[P_fuzz]

bringing a thread back from the dead!!

I am curious about "cool and indie" fashion magazines from Japan and Australia...

anybody know of one or two names???

[v111]

I like Dazed an Confused!!!!http://dazeddigital.com/archive/Defa...m=1&currCat=15

[Serge65]

Robb Report

[PhotoEclat]

it looks to me that elle magazine usa has some pretty hot photos as well, what did everbody think about stephen shore in the nov issue? but i just love vogue france and l'officielle, strong on jewelery too, which is my thing!