VOGUE ITALIA JUNE 2011 – PLUS SIZE COVER + EDITORIAL + VIDEOS (NSFW)!

At last there’s been a long over-due jump made from the “Vogue Curvy” online offerings of Vogue Italia back to the printed page. Not since the February and April covers of 2000 has Vogue Italia featured a model over EU38 front and centre; for June of 2011 they have chosen three faces!

Photographed in the Towers of the Waldorf Astoria New York, the cover, accompanying editorial and backstage video of the shoot show that VI’s Editor Franca Sozzani is demonstrably more committed to inclusion and size diversity than her other Vogue edition counterparts.

One of the models is quoted post-shoot that ” We shot a Vogue Italia cover with all this designer stuff. Out of 100 dresses only two fitted as they were straight from the catwalk. There was a seamstress there to alter them, so they were cutting up £20,000 frocks! In the end, they went for the lingerie shots, so none of the dresses got used.” On the bright side – at least these dresses were made available for the shoot, which is a major step forward.

Plus there is another FASHION editorial in the issue featuring Robyn Lawley!

Photographer: Steven Meisel
Models (L-R) Tara Lynn, Candice Huffine, Robyn Lawley, Marquita Pring
Stylist: Edward Enninful
Hair: Guido Paulau
Makeup : Pat McGrath

HANDY HINT: click on the FS button at bottom right of the pictures to view the images at Full Screen size – they’ll be much larger. Or click on SL for a slideshow. Either way, use your ESC button to close the screen when you are done.

VOGUE ITALIA JUNE 2011 - SOGNO DI DONNA

Photographer: Steven Meisel Models: Candice Huffine, Robyn Lawley, Tara Lynn, Marquita Pring Stylist: Edward Enninful

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This gallery is the published version with all images included!

Below is a shot from the nicely edited backstage video which can be viewed by clicking anywhere you like on Marquita and below that one is a video of Candice talking about the experience from the casting right through to seeing the cover for the first time!

Images & Video from Vogue.it

Candice’s video from fordmodels blog

Tagged as: Candice Huffine, Italy, Magazine Covers, Marquita Pring, Robyn Lawley, Steven Meisel, Tara Lynn, video, Vogue Italia

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1 transcarib September 1, 2011 at 5:06 am: quel dommage. styling was uninspired, borrowing heavily from Bettie Page and 50′s soft porn. girls were lovely, tho.
2 divadellecurve June 24, 2011 at 1:13 am: I’m Italian and bought this issue. Unfortunately Italian people didn’t take this thing too well, most of them claim these beautiful models are ‘fat’! That’s what most comments from users of Vogue Italia showed. Our plus size models are a Uk size 14 maximum. Italians still have a very discriminating attitude towards plus size ppl, especially women, if you get in a shop with a 14+ size they will look at you with pity and tell you ‘for you we don’t have anything’ with an annoyed voice. I doubt things will change. I have a blog on plus size fashion and I am one of the few who does outfit pics/videos but I heard people say that doing so promotes obesity. It’s quite sad…
3 Monique June 4, 2011 at 11:52 am: Stunning!!!
4 tdbaker June 4, 2011 at 1:41 am: brava, brava! a must have!