As EIC of American ELLE, Nina Garcia has cemented herself and the mag as a big competitor along the likes of Anna Wintour’s Fashion and Samira Nasr’s Harper’s Bazaar. Month after month, factor after factor, Garcia outshines the contest and closing month noticed Imaan Hammam take to 2 dynamic covers – a transfer which was once broadly celebrated on our boards given the truth fashions are a complete rarity on mainstream American model titles.
This month, Garcia ups ante for ELLE’s all-important September factor and true to rumors by means of our boards, probably the most largest stars inside the international of leisure makes an look: Zendaya! Captured via famend photographer Steven Klein and with Legislation Roach on styling tasks, the multifaceted American famous person poses up a hurricane within the colourful and electrical quilt symbol captured on location on the Ace Resort in Downtown Los Angeles and poses poolside dressed in a Louis Vuitton get dressed, Bulgari jewellery (each during which Zendaya is logo ambassador) and stands tall in a couple of killer Christian Louboutin stilettos.

Amazingly so, alternatively, the outcome of ELLE‘s newest quilt shoot garnered unfavourable comments among our discussion board individuals. “Zendaya appears just right as she at all times does, however I don’t handle the quilt symbol,” voiced KINGofVERSAILLES.
“I love her, no longer positive at the quilt,” echoed Ivancica.
“It’s giving finances obstacles. I don’t assume a rooftop was once the suitable atmosphere. It wanted a villa, one thing unapologetically lavish to in reality enlarge the intercourse and extra. The quilt isn’t just right both,” Benn98 chimed in.
Additionally no longer precisely leaping for pleasure was once DK92: “I normally like Klein’s paintings, however he in reality annoys me with this clear out that makes everybody appear to be they haven’t showered in a month.”
“The entire elements are right here for a grand September quilt, akin to giant famous person like Zendaya and an improbable photographer like Steven Klein however the quilt itself does not anything for me. There’s a ways an excessive amount of occurring with the busy and textured backdrop of the lodge and the crimson masthead is disappearing,” spotted vogue28.
See extra of Zendaya as ELLE‘s September 2023 quilt famous person and sign up for the dialog, right here.