Hye Park Ad Campaign for MaxMara Occhiali, Fall 2008/Winter 2009

Models: Snejana Onopka & Hye Park
Ad Campaign: MaxMara Occhiali, Fall 2008/Winter 2009
Photographer: Craig McDean

Source: Oxymoron @ tFs

Lakshmi Menon Editorial for V Magazine #56, Winter 2008/09

The latest issue of V Magazine (#56, Winter 2008/2009) has an editorial on the five new faces that "work it like there's no tomorrow" and Lakshmi Menon is listed as one of them. However the most interesting part of magazine is that Lakshmi was credited as a 21-years old. Okay, let's just pretend we don't know she's really *ahem* 27 years old.

Model: Lakshmi Menon
Editorial: Who's That Girl
Magazine: V Magazine #56, Winter 2008/2009
Photographer: Sebastian Faena
Stylist: Sofia Achaval
Makeup: Virginia Young (Streeters)
Hair: Jeff Francis (The Wall Group)

Source: V Magazine

Mackenzie Hamilton Editorial for China Vogue, April 2008

Model: Mackenzie Hamilton
Editorial: Trembled Blossoms

Magazine: China Vogue, April 2008

Photographer: Lachlan Bailey

Source: BlueDophin via YourBestFriend @ tFs

Rila Fukushima Editorial for Nippon Vogue, October 2008

Finally, we see an Asian/Japanese model (Rila Fukushima) in the pages of Nippon Vogue, albeit it is in one of the smaller, minor editorials for the October 2008 issue. Nippon Vogue is not known for using Asian models on its pages, either on the covers or in editorials. It has consistently used Caucasian models in almost every feature except the local gossip columns and society pages.

Korea Vogue, on the other hand, rarely feature non-Korean Asian models on its editorials either. I guess we can at least applaud it for using its own people to fill the pages but I would love to see it feature other Asian models of non-Korean nationality. Ditto with India Vogue.

China Vogue is probably the most inclusive of all the Asian Vogue titles. It has consistently used Ai Tominaga, as well as Hye Park, Han Jin, Eugenia Mandzhieva and Juliana Imai in its pages. For that, I applaud China Vogue as the best Asian Vogue titles.

Model: Rila Fukushima

Editorial: Enchanting Witches
Magazine: Nippon Vogue, October 2008
Photographer: Bjorn Iooss
Stylist: Dora Fung
Hair & Makeup: Enrico Mariotti

Source: Bjorn Mariotti

Gwen Lu Editorial for SOON Magazine #7 Spring 2009

I have to admit, this is Gwen Lu's edgiest editorial work to date. Her recent trip to Paris over the summer definitely paid off when she shot with Paris-based photographers Naomi Yang (for Taiwan Vogue, September 2008; French Biba, October 2008) and Justin Cooper (for French SOON Magazine #7, Spring 2009). She also has an editorial in the November 2008 issue of French Glamour, which I'm still trying to hunt down.

If anyone has a copy of this month's French Glamour (Penelope Cruz on the cover), please scan Gwen Lu's editorial for me.

Model: Gwen Lu

Editorial: Fields of Sorrow

Magazine: SOON Magazine #7, Spring 2009

Photographer: Justin Cooper

Stylist: Laurent Dombrowicz

Makeup: Miky @ BAgency

Hair: Philippe Mensah @ BAgency

Source: MySpace/SOON Magazine