A Year In Vogue

A Year In Vogue

THIS year saw musicians, including Rihanna and Adele, grace their first Vogue cover - whilst the world's most beautiful models - from Gisele Bundchen to Rosie Huntington-Whiteley - also had their moment. Here's the year in Vogue:

JANUARY: Cover girl Keira Knightley talked about her shyness, as Mario Testino captured her in Miu Miu, Sonia Rykiel, Prada and Marni.

FEBRUARY: Victoria Beckham graced her eighthVogue cover;  Sarah Burton talked life after McQueen; and Alexa Chung grilled Christopher Kane on his kind of woman.

MARCH: A delighted Rosie Huntington-Whiteley secured her first solo Vogue cover, cleavage and tumbling hair included, whilst inside Miuccia Prada's  fashion-transformation skills were explored in The Alchemist.

APRIL: Kate Winslet appeared on the cover for the third time, sporting a pale blonde crop, and talked for the first time about her split from husband Sam Mendes and her future plans. Inside, Lindsey Wixson was the girl of the month, starring in two - very different - fashion shoots.

MAY: Vogue's royal wedding issue dressed Lara Stone, Natalia Vodianova and Freja Beha-Erichsen as brides for Mario Testino - in what was the first multi-cover issue in the magazine's almost-100-year history.

JUNE: A very colourful Alexa Chung cover bounced us in to spring, but the tone inside the pages was more sombre. The turbulent "Arab spring" was examined by writer Rana Kabbani in Road To Revolution, whilst Paolo Roversi's Neo Geisha shoot took inspiration from the then-recently troubled nation of Japan: both its heritage and its cutting-edge modernity.

JULY: Vogue's Ageless Style issue delved in to the secrets of those women who always look impeccable, no matter their age, including cover girl Vanessa Paradis - who also deigned to show her engagement ring from Johnny Depp for the first time.

AUGUST: Fresh from her July wedding to Jamie Hince, supermodel Kate Moss added another Vogue cover to her impressive tally - and sported the season's classic, Forties-inspired looks for Mario Testino inside.

SEPTEMBER: The biggest issue of the year saw one of the year's biggest models, Freja Beha-Erichsen, wear the season's most coveted dress - Dolce & Gabbana green sequins - on the cover, as the magazine unveiled the trends to know in the coming months.

OCTOBER: Multi-award-winning British songstress Adele became one of the magazine's most popular issues of the year in October, and explained in an interview inside why if she was to become the face of any brand it would be "full-fat Coke!".

NOVEMBER: In a blonde Marilyn Monroe-wig and trademark pout, Rihanna made her Vogue cover debut - whilst inside, the year's most sought-after model, Karlie Kloss, channelled Studio 54 for Terry Richardson.

DECEMBER: Clad in vibrant, metallic Pam Hogg leggings, the world's first billionaire supermodel, Gisele Bundchen, graced her 13^th Vogue cover, surrounded by balloons.

Source: VOGUE - LAUREN MILLIGAN 22 December 2011

Miu Miu Ad Banned

Miu Miu Ad Banned

MIU MIU's controversial Hailee Steinfeld advertisement has been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency. The ad, which shows 14-year-old Steinfeld sitting on a railway track, was found to be "irresponsible" for "showing a child in a hazardous or dangerous situation".

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Prada Retail Ltd, which owns Miu Miu, explained that the ad was "based on the set of an imaginary film" starring Steinfeld - who was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar in 2011 for her role in True Grit - and did not have the "intent of depicting a child in an unsafe location". The label said that the ad "was photographed on an abandoned railway track in a foreign country. Hailee Steinfeld was sitting on the edge of the train track as if she was resting between takes of the movie on a hot day". They also said that "the viewpoint of the ad extended along the railway track and it was clear that there was no train in sight," thereby negating any suggestion of peril.

The brand added that the ad was "part of a serious, high-fashion campaign aimed at adult women and "was placed only in adult, high-fashion magazines".

Despite upholding the complaint that the images showed Steinfeld in an unsafe location, the ASA rejected another complaint that the images were suggestive of youth suicide and that Steinfeld appeared to be crying whilst sitting on the railway track - concluding that "the ad was prepared with a due sense of responsibility and would not be suggestive of youth suicide to impressionable young people".

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Source: VOGUE -LAUREN MILLIGAN 24 November 2011