Looking at these photos of Kirsty Hume and Stella Tennant taken in Scotland by Mario Testino back in 1997, I wish I could write something beautiful and poetic, because this is a kind of treatment the editorial truly deserves… I chose it because I loved the first shot, the glow in the last one and the enchantment of the entire story that seem to flow from image to image…
Photo source: Vogue US September 1997 (photography: Mario Testino)
My choice of today’s editorial is obvious – the time of London fashion week required something British, and so I picked the Seasoned simplicity, a sweet, romantic and very much London-based story featured Kirsty Hume and her husband, Donovan Leitch, who, for some reason, reminds me of young David Bailey… I wonder if it’s just me or you, too, can spot some similarities here…
And talking of similarities… I can’t help but feel that this editorial had a strong influence on some of the recent ones including Natalia jumping in her Prada dress in the Grand Affair and a story published in either Vogue or Love in 2012 – I’m currently going through my extensive collection to double-check and confirm the latter.
Photo source: Vogue US September 1995
Photo source: Vogue US September 1994, Vogue US September 1996, Harper’s Bazaar US 2009
