Lara Stone often gets cast for her impossible proportions. And it’s no wonder photographers and stylists love playing to her uncommonly enviable figure. But for the April 2012 issue of Vogue Turkey photographer Cuneyt Akeroglu brings something singularly simple, natural, focused not just on Lara’s striking facial features but on her range of facial expressions.

For a fashion editorial to really sell the product in it, it should do one thing: generate desire. And one of the strongest motivators for desire is envy. The romance of international travel, of being far from the stresses of working life, may be less enviable in this globalised, accessible world than it once was in and before the golden age of air travel. But…

It’s so far from being the regular take on a beauty shoot that it’s barely a beauty shoot at all. It’s art, photography, illustration, collage, and it sets about doing something different. Not different to anything that’s ever been done before, but different to what has become expected. And Solve Sundsbo’s creation – starring Lara Stone is indeed a visual treat.

Peter Lindburgh has a winning formula that goes a little something like this: beautiful young model, seasoned male actor, cinematic romance. Some past works paired Daria Werbowy with David Strathairn, Daphne Groeneveld with Pascal Greggory. The latest: Lara Stone and American actor Fred Ward. While there’s something inherently captivating about such a pairing – an endless fascination with younger women and older men – the…

“At first I thought that I was going to do something really sexy and really strong, and then as my ideas started developing I realised that wasn’t the right direction.” — Mario Sorrenti. It’s not often enough that we get insight into the process of development that is the very basis of the fashion industry. It’s even rarer to also hear of its abandoned ideas.…

It’s almost become a bigger calendar-related event than the new year which dictates the needs for a new calendar to begin with. So it is that we spend most of the year talking about the ins and outs of a sole calendar, pondering who’ll photograph it and how they’ll go about it, before passing around rumours as to the models who’ll actually feature in it.…

Lara Stone has truly burst back into the pages of practically every magazine imaginable. Well, fashion magazines anyway, and the odd men’s mag. Her recent shoot for the October 2011 issue of GQ doesn’t cross the nudity line, and yet is all the more alluring for it. The thing that makes it most worthy of your attention is the iconic 1960s styling and poses. Blonde…

If you’ve ever found yourself face to face in conversation with Ana Beatriz Barros, you’ll be familiar with what a truly imposing figure she cuts. Especially when she’s in skin-tight pants and killer heels (and you, sadly, are not). If you wanted to indulge in the word ‘glamazon’ you’d be well forgiven; it’s hard to find another word that does the job. She puts those…

Be careful what you wear to sleep / You never know who you could meet. So cautions this i-D magazine editorial by David Bailey. In each shot Lara Stone is transformed into a girl of the dreamscape, styled by Charlotte Stockdale into some practical outfits and some not-so-practical ones. Each shot is sloganned with a rhyming couplet of Shakespearean elegance… like “I dreamt I rang…

What this Vogue Japan shoot lacks (to my eye at least) in emotion it makes up for in sex appeal. Lara Stone is the bombshell at the heart of it all, and gives off only icy stares that place her, strict and dominatrix-like, amidst the continued editorial theme of fetish and fashion. But you can’t fault her Goddess form or the way she carries off…