"Thanks!" to RatsOnParade (check out her great "I LOVE J.CREW" blog), who shared the following with us.Over at the MoodBoard blog (click here to view more images), there is a great post about J.Crew's latest images for their Weddings & Parties Collection (click here). Several of J.Crew's shots were clearly "inspired" by the wedding photo shoot of Arthur Elgort in Vogue Magazine (click here to see the original images).
What are your thoughts on the similarities? Do you think J.Crew was inspired by the spread in Vogue Magazine?
The thing that cracks me up about J Crew's photo shoot is grandma. Whose idea was it to put her in the Fringed Ellington skirt? Sorry, but grandma should NOT be wearing a mini skirt.
ReplyDeleteThe Fringed Ellington skirt is a "questionable item" in my book... maybe cute on a fashionable gal with good legs, but definitely not for an old lady! :-p
they definitely copied the style, but I like the originals better.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Rosie, that skirt is not for the grandma... i think the problem is not that is mini, but the fringing... i can only imagine the fringing to look good on toned legs.
I don't know, I think it's been a very J.Crew thing to do for years to have the whole "family" in shots. This doesn't look like a copy to me.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Grandma should not be in that mini!
I think it's pretty obvious that J Crew used the Vogue shoot for inspiration. It was probably intentionally done very similarily, basically as an allusion to the Vogue shoot. I think this is a nod to the people J. Crew would like to target: people who follow high-end fasion. This is also evident in the styles J. Crew has been leaning toward this past year...all very high-fashion inspired.
ReplyDeleteI don't know; both the J. Crew and the Vogue pics look inspired by traditional wedding pictures from the early 1900s. They remind me of the old wedding pictures of my great grandmothers that are hanging in my parents' house.
ReplyDeleteThe ones other than the group shot look especially similar: the girl holding the bouquet with the others leaning around her and the one of the girl tossing the bouquet. Those aren't really classic wedding portraits and the J. Crew ones are exactly like the Vogue ones.
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