Have you seen this month's French Vogue?

[Bonsoir]

Uber-romantic shoot styled by Anastasia Barbieri and featuring her DD here

I couldn't find it in Sainsburys!

Terrible.

Agree posie.

Did you not think some of those pictures of the child looked a bit, I don't know, dodgy? I wouldn't want my child in a magazine looking like that. Maybe I'm being silly though and seeing something that isn't there.

Why is it terrible?

It just looks very French to me.

Yuck!
What do you think Anna?

beautiful pictures maybe, but I wouldn't want my little girl in them with so little on

It can look French, Chinese or Portuguese and I would still think terrible. Very try hard and wannabe if you ask me, like the stylist has made far too much effort to create something and it seems contrived.

I think it is a very beautiful story - really lovely. Which is why I posted it!

What's beautiful about a scrawny model and sour faced child taking it in turns to be half dressed???

Hmm. No, I don't think it looks terrible. I think it looks French, but I don't find that terrible in and of itself.

If I saw it and did not know where it was from, I would be inclined to surmise it was from a European edition of Vogue, tbh.

The picture of the woman sat next to the girl with the woman holding a doll and looking all coy makes me very uneasy. Are they trying to infantalise her? Are they meant to be mother and daughter?

Sorry Bonsoir - lovely floaty dresses and everything, but not my cup of tea.

My daughter will almost assuredly look like that model. She is already tall and slender from a family of very tall, slender people.

Glad to know the world will judge her as 'scrawny'.

It isn't my cup of tea, either, but meh.

I think it's quite nice actually.

Bonsoir-sorry for hijack- do you know a good British shop in Paris? I've been going to the one next to Republique, but they haven't got much.

expat....the model's shoulders are broad and she is very very thin, not lean or slender. I have 'skinny' tall friends...none of which look skeletal.

I go to England pretty often so don't usually look for English stuff here in Paris. If you want mincemeat for mincepies and elderflower cordial, try WHSmiths. If you want biscuits and fruit cake, try La Grande Epicerie.

Posie- it's just French, that's all

I like M.Jansson a lot.

DD1 already has a complex about being tall and slender.

But I'd never teach her to describe heavy people with negative terms.

It's okay to pick on people who are thin or skinny, though.

Hope your DD's looks bring her $$$$$, expat

I don't think Sasha's skeletal, tbh. Could think of lots of other models who are, but she's just skinny.

Okay, then, Posie.

She must be anorexic, to be so 'skeletal'.

Gees, no wonder Erin O'Connor used to get so pissed off when so many insulted her integrity and asked her horribly personal questions, such as did she still menstruate, because of her physique.

I sooo knew you were going to say that Anna ...
Admittedly Mikael is Swedish so may well look on things differently,...
I, however, see an over contrived, over styled, over precocious, over sexualized and totally unnecessary story...
and as you know Anna, I'm a kids fashion photographer.

Thanks Bonsoir, will try La Grande Epicerie. I don't allow myself to go to WHSmith anymore as I can't leave without spending way too much on books each time.

thank you, bonsoir :)

she already had two lovely French girls, who spoke excellent English,'styling' her in Amsterdam airport where we were all stuck.

i loved it when she told them where she was from when they asked and they nodded to each other and whispered, 'Ecosse!'