I’m always up for a model on the cover of Vogue and I write this knowing I risk sounding like the ubiquitously cynic writer, but it frustrates me when a top model, like Trentini, is dolled up in a Cosmo-friendly manner and posed in such a way that demands an unfavorable double take at the newsstands – Maxim or Vogue? Caroline, if not overexposed enough via the pages of American Vogue, undoubtedly looks superb, but I can’t help but feel under whelmed with the lack of creativity.
To make my economic professors smile from between the pages of their Economist, it’s as if the marginal benefit of opting for a model over [insert name here] over-exposed celebrity is reduced when used for this. Caroline Trentini, Caroline Kepcher – heck, even a generously photoshopped Caroline Rhea – would have done the job.
I hear you on that but I think what sets apart European Vogues from their American (North or South) counterparts are their predilections for tasteful high fashion content, as opposed to, say, American Vogue’s pursuit for pleb subscriptions. That’s not meant to be derogatory at all.
In the case of Vogue Brasil, Rio beach culture has a big influence on it. Take a look at Rio Fashion Week (which started yesterday) and it’s swimsuit after swimsuit after swimsuit.
I don’t know. Maybe they’re doing it simply because Brazilians are delighted at seeing a beautiful fair-skinned paisana loira like Caroline Trentini on the cover of a glossy.