Hello Everyone! It’s that time of year again. We’re all rushing to our nearest news stand to pick up all eight hundred and fifty six pages that make up the most anticipated magazine of the year: Vogue’s September Issue. The length of this issue is due to fall couture’s impact on fashion. Right after Labor Day, white is exchanged for black, summer sling backs are switched out for riding boots, and we can all agree that fur is the best touch to any look whether it be hat, coat or shoes! Fall is the real turning point for fashion. While everyone marks January as the time clock of the year, the fashion calendar begins in September. In January you are still wearing the same heavy overcoats and cozy mittens you were wearing to celebrate the holidays in December. September is where we are just beginning to change the colors of our wardrobe and planning our favorite outfits for the upcoming season.

I love looking through the ad campaigns each season because, unlike the runways, they are the designer’s way of showing the inspiration behind the collection, what the designer is trying to bring across to us as the onlooker, what he wants to make us feel and think. The ad campaigns take on the backdrop of the shoot. The way the models interact with the clothes brings out what the collection is trying to evoke. A certain place in time, texture, fairy tale; these factor into the muse of the designer. Not only are the designer’s works there for us to simply admire, they are intended to inspire. Mixed and matched with other designers’ works creates ensembles that are just as or even more thought provoking and provocative as the designer’s intent. The September issue is where the fabulous pieces pulled off the runway are contrasted and mixed to create a piece that is phenomenal! These shoots are so grand. They tap into what we all dream of someday wearing, something altogether over the top.

To make a shoot like the one I am describing takes masterful fashions, a beautiful backdrop, an outstanding photographer, and the eye of Grace Coddington (Vogue’s creative director). Grace was brought into the limelight through the fabulous film, “The September Issue.” She is the master of play. She does shoots both on scene and in a studio. The major difference between these two types of photo shoots is that the on-scene shoots immerse us into the fantasy of the clothes and their role in the story behind the camera. The studio shoots, by contrast, embrace a trend. They play on the fun of a trend and how it can be completely over the top. Picture the most fun street wear and amp it up to a new level of fabulous. Grace is the master of both of these two huge areas in fashion; immersing and inspiring the reader in her everyday wardrobe. Anna Wintour (editor-in-chief of American Vogue) is the one who has the vision behind the magazine. She has the deciding word about everything that makes it onto the pages of each issue. Both Grace Coddington and Anna Wintour are true visionaries and are what make the September issue the ultimate fashion composite every year.

This issue has to be one of my favorites because it features how fashion is present in our everyday lives, not only on the runways. This cover features nine of fashion’s most influential super models. We see how they each interact through social media to how personable they each are. Super models have whole fashion lines based around them to even designing a collection themselves! I loved this issue and thinking about how we, the readers, are influenced by the pages of this great magazine. Happy Reading!

xoxo,

Cecilia Roses