The anticipation surrounding “The September Issue” – the Sundance screened documentary which follows Anna Wintour and team Vogue as they put together a September Issue is palpable to say the least.
Will Wintour be as icy as she is portrayed in the media? Are the unruly expectations and office politics for which Conde Nast is known fact or fiction? What exactly is the relationship between Vogue’s editors and head designers of fashion brands? Particularly when the careers of the latter depends on the endorsement of the former.
The first morsel of information from the no holds barred documentary is something that most people already know. Mainstream magazines photoshop the shit out of their images. What differentiates Vogue’s September cover from other examples however is the fact that Sienna Miller’s head is photoshopped onto another picture of her body Frankenstein style…
The Daily Mirror’s 3AM Girls report:
“In a behind-the-scenes documentary, The September Issue, fearsome Vogue editor Anna Wintour claims Miller is too “toothy” and staff were worried she has “too many fillings” and “unruly hair”….
The documentary shows how the actress was airbrushed within an inch of her life for the shoot with famed photographer Mario Testino back in 2007. They then took one photo of her face and super-imposed it on a separate picture of her body.
Conversely the magazine issued the following statement: “While some retouching is a fact for any cover, no one is more convinced of Ms Miller’s beauty than Vogue. ‘The fact she’s appeared on the magazine’s September cover, our most important issue of the year, is a testimony to this truth.”
Via Huffington Post
