She's No Cover Girl
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Do fashionistas find her obnoxious and annoying too?????
According to a new report, the May issue of Vogue with Gwyneth Paltrow on the cover is the mag's worst seller of the year so far.
It only sold 310,000 newsstand copies.
Vogue averages around 450,000 copies sold at newsstand per issue.
What was it about this Gwyneth cover that didn't resonate with people???
Is it her??? The picture??? All of the above???
[Image via WENN.]
Posted: July 7, 2008 at 1:45 pm
The problem is the photo itself. I'm not even a fan of Ms. G., however, the photoshop people did a ridiculously poor job on this photo. She looks deformed. Her left arm is depressing and her neck is not in proportion. I thought it was the ugliest Vogue cover I've seen in over 25 years. The stylist should leave the business as well. Poor, poor workmanship all around. Gwyn was a victim on this one.
Nobody's mentioned the "I simplify everything" tagline… that was what made me want to vomit on it. Whoop-de-fucking-doo. Aren't you better than all of us?
wata dick!
All I can go by is her talent- and I think she is one of the best actors of our generation. She is very intelligent and her characters are always so believable. In her televised or radio interviews I've seen she has always come across to me as charming, funny and kind. She doesn't apologize for using an extensive vocabulary- why should she? It's refreshing to have someone as cultured as she is representing the United States.
In most part it's because of the price of gas and also because Ms. Paltrow is no longer an "It Girl" like she was 10 years ago. How can 18-25 year-olds relate to her? They're one of the biggest spending demographics out there and she's no longer that age. The movies she stars in now aren't as high profile either. Most people don't like the fact that she acts very snobby and acts like everything is easy to solve by hiring a few people to do her home chores for her. She's never had to worry about going hungry or getting raped because she lived in a bad neighborhood in an inner city. I don't have any empathy for her because she never had to struggle in her life.
Well, the cover is pretty good, a little cool and blue/silver so maybe it didn't pop. But my guess is that, despite corporate America's insistence that there's no recession and people should keep buying expensive crap, a lot of consumers are finally admitting to themselves that this crunch is real and there's no end in site. Vogue is the highest end mass fashion magazine, right? (I'm no expert, but it is up there). Since it sells luxury goods, uninterrupted by Cosmo-style articles on Kegel exercises and how to get a raise, maybe fewer people are buying Vogue overall. Plus, that magazine is an extra tank of gas - 30 extra miles or so. I bet a lot of magazines selling luxury goods to the middle and upper-middle-class will be hurting soon.
it's her AND the picture! ew
she's a turbo bore, that's why.
1. The cover is unattractive.
2. Gwyneth Paltrow is unattractive.
3. Vogue is insanely vapid.
4. Gwyneth Paltrow is insanely vapid.
5. Vogue doesn't matter.
6. Gwyneth Paltrow doesn't matter.
all of the aBove(well besides the dress ofcourse)
the pic is bad but some of the captions look like they belong on a reader's digest . . . i love reader's digest but not when i want a fahion magazine.
I never support anything Gwyneth Paltrow does, for the same reason I never voted for George Bush. They're both ill-informed, intellectually lazy, condescending prats that have gotten where they are because of nepotism.
She's pompous.
I think the most annoying part is that the picture is so photoshopped that she looks like she's 14 years old.
2nd annoying part is the she considers herself to be part of the "academic world", when her greatest academic achievement has been to receive a good ol' high school diploma.
Because the cover makes her look like the pray MAN tis, Celine Dion.
It's HER. I can see why she's perceived in a bad light, because she can be very flip and irritable looking. It's like one minute, she doesn't want to be bothered and constantly looks annoyed, and then she wants to be public and strike a pose. She also seems really cold and mean when talking about her relationship with Brad Pitt and comes across as one of those girls who's a man-eater. Brad seems to be a nice guy, and he's never said anything bad about her, but she has made unflattering remarks about him on a couple of occassions. She seems like a total control-freak bitch who thinks she's the shit but she really isn't all that great of an actress. She has cute kids though!
Airbrushed horribly. But you knew this from another website eh?
The photo looks cold and anfalttering, and together with her boring personality and her coming across as a little cold person, it's a turn off.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??? because she has a BUUTER FACE- ugly breasts and a horrible voice@! That girl is UGLY. As Howard Stern says" SHE HAS THE SEX APPEAL OF A MAN." She speaks in a montone voice- her EYES ARE UGLY, LIFELESS DEAD. HER FACE IS UGLY, LIFELESS, DEAD. SHE IS AN UGLY WOMAN! UGLY FACE THAT IS.The only idiots that "think she is pretty" are living on a farm and LIKE HER BLOND HAIR. She is NOT a pretty woman. AND SHE HAS THE ENERGY OF A WORM!
BECAUSE SHE IS A GD BUTTER FACE! WITH UGLY BREASTS!!!!!!!
BECAUSE
she is as UGLY
as tori spelling
and MORE BORING.
THE MOST boring boring "actress" EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. ! And her eyes are dead- her speech is lifeless and impaired by her stupid TEETH and tongue and that POOR GIRL HAS UGLY BREASTS! THERE IS NOTHING FEMININE ABOUT HER BUT HER EXTENSIONS ugly!!
It's her. No matter how much they airbrush they just can't fix her face.
The Bitch Said She She Hated AMERICA !!! FUCK HER…….
maybe cuz its advertising iron man. the kind of people that read vogue are not going to be interested in iron man.
shes beautiful. but not on the cover who ever photographed her needs to go back to school. she was great in running with sissors. and the luckiest wife in the world! Quit Hating. My mom bought the issue.
Nah just a bad photo. i know dont like her perez but she's gorgeous normally, but its the photographers fault cos its lame, her face is so expressionless in this one
Prolly because the cover is such a Photoshop disaster. She looks like a bobble-head!
that pic is horrible, and it would help if she wasnt so COLD, she reminds me of popcicle!
all the above bitches
Re: Poisn – I love the Soprano reference, so funny as VH1 has "Journey" on with the new dude from the Phillapines(SP?) and he sounds awesome. Anyway, Gwynnie is just another pretentious British wanna-be…"my, my look at me and my great British accent is and how wonderful the conversations are here…I love the whole stiff upper lip way of being, Rule Britannia!" Eccchhhhhhhh, wishing she'd fade away….
I like Perez,
but I LIKE GWYNETH MORE!
She's stunning and beautiful, so lay off!!!
She is too vanilla. No personality. Snotty white stuck up c-word.
I like her in a couple of movies, but her, personally, she seems like a real cold hearted person And I still do not get why do we NEVER see a family photo? Ever.
WTF???!! Isn't she married with children? All you ever see is her pale white skinny ass. I can't stand her. And I agree, she is a Euro - wanna be that said she hated America once too many.
She is really VERY plain and so condescending it makes me retch into my mouth… a tall, lanky, straggly vacuum
There is nothing Vogue about this picture. No wonder it didn't sell.
It's a boring shot. Her pose, hair, colors on the cover.
Plus, look at the topics on the cover.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I usually like her but that photo makes her look like a dog. Or a mermaid. woof.
Gwyneth is wonderful. Beautiful, talented, nice. People like her. But this cover is horrible. It's amateurish-looking. Vogue owes it's public an apology for it. It's bad on all levels. It's not Gwyneth's fault. She is always beautiful and photogenic. But this cover is bad. Did someone make a mistake at the printer? What happened? Loyal Vogue readers will buy no matter the cover but other people might not if it's a bad cover.
Her picture has been PHOTOSHOPED so much that shes unrecognisable..Thats why it dosent look like her……
"The temp did it."
People are realizing that this one had connections, bitches about Americans & really is rather plain looking. Everything about her is fake. She tried being Grace Kelly but Charlize has a better chance at that (still no Princess Grace by a longshot). The bottom line here is…the average American is structurally better bone structured in the face than Gwyneth Paltrow. Give us the makeup, photogs & photoshop & we'll blow this bitch away on looks, even w/out help. We just don't wanna see mags & films w/people who WE can blow away…that's why NOBODY is BUYING that stupid Vgue edition. We are insulted by the mag edits who think they can fool us. Shame on Vogue! We can all go look at ourselves in the mirror a/shower w/out makeup & wet hair slicked back & say…Yes, I am more interesting looking than Gwyneth is. Fashion industry, WARNING: STOP STUFFING THIS ONE DOWN OUR THROATS! You think WE don't have mirrors?
Dumb b*tch. She was promoting the moving Transformers. That is why she looks fake, I think it is very robot-chic, post Earth if you will…
She's a dink and she's boring. She's pretty until she opens her mouth and then all this idiotic spew vomits forth. If she just had her jaw wired shut she'd be remarkable.
Re: wanda – Methinks the "lady" doth protest too much…If you read teh article properly, Perez hasn't actually said anything negative about Gwymneth in the piece at all - overreacting much?
Re: wanda – Methinks the "lady" doth protest too much…If you read the article properly, Perez hasn't actually said anything negative about Gwymneth in the piece at all - overreacting much?
Re: Mack – Yup, you said it. Now it is time to bring out the executioner's short drop rope. No long or standard drop for her & the ridiculous editors at Vogue. The editors at Vogue need to be tormented on the short drop rope to death. No, we do not want to break your neck & call it a day. You need to be slowly strangled & flail & piss & shit before dying. The short drop for you! You think we are stupid!. They 'prefer' the firing squad, i'm sure. No! A Masha Bruskina end for you! Stay on the rope for 3 days, bitches!
It's just that she's irrelevant.
She's so yesterday.
Re: astroboy – You said it, even the Bitches at Nuremberg trial were interesting. Anna is going senile & needs to be replaced. New blood, please, granny. Since when does an old hag make decisions for US?
Re: capit – You just said it in a nutshell. What is wrong w/this world when a women who is less attractive & sexy than most of us is making the covers? Time for us to speak. If I woke up tomorrow & looked like Gwyneth (I have yrs. on her) I would be pissed at my God!
This photo is way too photoshopped. It doesn't even look like her!
Who ever took that photo should never hold a camera again. It's horrible and the editor who picked to be the cover should be fired. There's too much shit going on in that shot. Didn't they have an art director around? Lousy angle, too washed out and no central focal point.
She is a skank ass bitch who needs the pedastal she stands on knocked out from underneath her.
Gross her arms look like sticks no one wants to buy a mag with a nasty anorexic chick on the cover!
Re: DUH – No! Compared to the average person, she needs photoshop. The editors know that but they are delusional & old. Time for the next generation! Hang Wintour on a 'long drop rope'. Neck snaps faster. Bye, Anna! Go become a financial investor or real estate. Wintour, you are DONE! DONE!
Re: purpu – That logic would work even if she had a 1/2 assed 2 yr. college degree. She's a hillbilly. Never even went to junior college & tried like the rest of us. Oh, f off!
Its becaus she is a pomous ass. Didn't she say that Americans were stupid or something like that?
as humiliating as it is, i have that issue. but, in my defense, i couldnt find W.
Nah, anyone of us can run circles around her at a cocktail party. I've the MOJO & I am sexy & have 10 yrs on her. Nah, you either have IT or you don't. She's on the outside looking in. Can't say that about Madonna & she has 20 yrs. on that stale piece of bread.
Re: Gossip Lova – she's leaning on the mask because her movie Iron Man just came out and her pictorial is themed on the movie
Re: HAM – Noone would fuck you anyways so you can stick to your smelly old trash bag hater
I actually bought this issue because I wanted to read the mag a Friday night and the cover looked like a joke, boring. Like any other vogue cover with N Kidman or her.
it has nothing to do with the cover. i believe it's the economy. gas prices are taking a huge chunk out of my budget and magazines and coffee are the first to be slashed from my budget. i usually buy vogue but haven't bought a magazine in 2 months. i read it all on line or at the bookstore now.
vogue is actually amazing… but they need to stop retouching people until they look like plastic freaks. thats exactly what they did to gwyneth and she looks like a freaky floating head.
Dude Perez, you are just jealous because she has an amazingly great life. She is married to the hottest rock star in the world, she gets paid bank for doing minor roles, she has gorgeous children, she is intelligent and extremely classy.
She is so above you Perez and you can't bring her down one tiny notch.
Because she is a talentless spoiled Hollywood brat who is another pseudo English wannabe like Gal Pal Madonna and who got where she is because of her mommy and daddy. Besides, she named her first child Apple. But Nicole Kidman probably hasn't done much better with "Sunday"…what's up with these stars and their kids names? Has that slutty daughter of Goldie Hawn cut her kid's hair yet? Another freak fest.
Gwynnie comes across as pretty down to earth when she does interviews, but then she always ends up saying something that's incredibly arrogant and snobbish. She must be fake. I wish Gwyneth, Madonna and Kate Bosworth would take their fake British accents with them to an island far, far away. So annoying….
Why would we want to buy something that has clearly been airbrushed beyond recognition. I have seen this woman up close and she does not look like that! Plus, alot of people can't afford the clothes that are in it right now so why buy it?? Seems like a bit of a waste to me!
First and foremost it looks way fake.
She is beautiful, talented and classy unlike most of the people who leave comments on this site. How can you hate someone you don't even know? I think most of you should look in the mirror before commenting on someone else's looks and/or style.
As an actress she is very good, THEN she goes and ruins things by opening her mouth over stuff nobody honestly wants to hear her opinion about. She needs to learn to when it comes to her public persona people want the actress NOT the activist, etc.
It's definitely her….Gwyneth Paltrow has become a first class flake! She has been acting like a brainless teeny-bopper. Used to respect her, now I can't stand her.
When they saw the "decoding your dna" headline they probably figured the issue was a special edition for smart people.
Because she does not come across as a genuine person. Rather she appears to be sarcastic and snotty. Like she's doing Vogue a favor by them doing a spread on her. No favors accomplished for anyone.
She's such a boring, snobby b—-, I wouldn't pay 2 cents for a magazine with her picture on it!!!
Re: Jairi – TURBO BORE. Excellent expression. I will be borrowing that one! Whew! I almost giggled my way out my chair.
she looks like whatsherface from lost
Guess what, people who ask us how we can make fun of someone we don't know? It's easy as 1.2.3…..put in a fake name, put in a fake e-mail address, and then type, type, type away. "Gwyneth Paltrow is B-O-R-I-N-G. She'd better get into a series on HBO to resurrect her career, stat! Even her ex-boyfriend Ben Affleck is a better actor than her, and he's a VERY BAD actor. Love him anyway, though, because he doesn't take himself seriously and has enough sense to continue writing, producing, etc. GWYN is a has been with a longer shelf life due to her rock star marriage. I hope she switches to a nice private life, because she is a YAWNFEST and I'll bet all of her old high school chums are laughing their asses off now.
God, i can't stand her. she is so fucking annoying and a horrible actress.
This picture looks like Gwyneth Paltrow sticking her face through a cardboard cutout of someone else.
Something about this picture looks wrong, but i can't quite put my finger on it. Probably because i am Extremely Sleepy. But maybe the face? It looks like her face on someone else's body. But that is probably what her body looks like too, so, beats me! (What's up with saying she owes it to humanity to reproduce a third time BTW? Eww).
Maybe its because VOGUE keeps utting the same exact actresses on their covers over and over……The magazine plays it safe, people become bored…..Wintour's days are numbered there….
ph-ph-ph-photoshop
the reality is that the cover was not in any way INTERESTING with her on it- from the clothes to her hair, and then yes to the fact that it tried to be edgy but is NOT AT ALL. they have had covers were the actress or model made me buy the mag. Gwen is not cool or edgy- or sexy- BUT I AM a fan of her movies- she is a great actress.
She is SOOOO boring! Her life is so boring. her movies are the most boring things in this world. That's why
Gwyneth "I hate America" Paltrow. She really never misses a chance to talk shit about Americans with her fake british accent and while she's over there in England. The only reason this bitch gets parts in movies is because she's Steven Spielberg's god-daughter. Could this all be why that particular magazine with her particularly nasty ass on the cover didn't sell so well?
She looks like a man on that cover. An UGLY man.
She looks like a friggin' ROBOT! She looks like a friggin' ROBOT! She looks like a friggin' ROBOT! She looks like a friggin' ROBOT! She looks like a friggin' ROBOT! She looks like a friggin' ROBOT! She looks like a friggin' ROBOT! She looks like a friggin' ROBOT! She looks like a friggin' ROBOT! She looks like a friggin' ROBOT!
her — and the picture — she comes across as so trite — ew.
I've always really liked Gwenyth, I don't think she's snooty, I think she's got a little bit of style and class about her. But I would admit that Vogue cover hasn't don't much for her. She's naturally beautiful but looks a bit weird in the picture. I think all mag sales are going to drop off now - I know that I will not be renewing one of my subscriptions when it runs out next month. Tough times.
I love Gwyneth! I bought that issue of Vogue.
#1, the mag is too expensive. #2, it looks like someone Photoshopped her head onto a plastic body. #3, the LAST thing Gwyneth needs is to look even more fake and bitchy than everyone already thinks she is. #4, really, do you think anyone went to see IRON MAN because SHE was in it???
Maybe people are just tired of her Ice Queen personality.
The fact that she seems to think that her way of life is the only way to live
I remember her one night on the Jay Leno show telling him about her diet, macro bs and he telling her how unappitizing it sounded, and she snarkly replied, " Well , I'll outlive you " What the fuck!
Cold hearted bitch
this biz looks EXACTLY her mama
Arrogant, vain, self-important…
True. Maybe she´s not the typical cover girl but she´s looking good.
I think the cover is great. They made her as ugly on the outside as she is on the inside.
She really hasn't aged well.
it's the picture it looks like her head is photoshoped in it doesn't look natural.
This picture looks so unreal, photoshop???
I'm so sick of the Hollywood fake!!!!!
It's a weird looking photo. It doesn't do her justice.
people don't even look real anymore from all of the photo enhancement. They look like F*$&%*$&*%& manequins.