The new Harper’s Bazaar Italia [link] has published a second Spring 2023 issue.

Like the first one, the pages entice us with old-fashioned, gorgeous photography with style and model diversity among the fashion stories. The stories shared in the end of page widget don’t reflect that fact, but more colorful, modern images are coming.

Artistry does rule, however, making the photography very cohesive.

In this fashion story, Dutch-Somali model Muna Mahamed is styled by Sissy Vian in ‘The Silver Factory’, lensed by Melanie+Ramon [IG]. / Makeup by Marie Duhart; hair by Pier Paolo Lai

The Instagram [IG] isn’t supporting the magazine at all — which is a shame. And the newsletter signup is so complicated that I gave up. Hopefully, they fix that fast. Not does the website convert to English as Vogue Italia does.

This magazine could get international subscriptions in its print editions, if it maintains the quality of the first two issues. It’s exciting to see such a beautiful magazine being born, when we are drowning in magazine mediocrity. I’ll be reading with Google translator to better understand where they are going with Harper’s Bazaar Italia. Fingers crossed. ~ Anne