Dazed and Confused's July 2011

Hello Dazed! This summer Dazed and Confused has brought one of their best issues to date, in my opinion. I finally got the time to sit down and flick through one of my favourite magazines before the August issue was sent through my door and boy was it a treat.

The front cover oozes vibrant sexyness with a brilliant shot of the one and only Beyonce Knowles looking as strong and beautiful as ever. The fantastic shoot by Sharif Hamza captured Beyonce's pop icon status perfectly, capturing the confident, fierce and breathtakingly beautiful 27yr old star. The juxtaposition of the run down location and the incredible outfits (made especially for the shoot) created a vibrant, incredibly cool and perfect atmosphere to capture one of this generations most successful and talented stars. Here's a little taster for all you bloggers...











After the Beyonce shoot, comes "In Bloom" a fashion shoot by photographer Viviane Sassen and styled by Katie Shillingford. This shoot has to be one of my favourite magazine pieces. The colourful flower field location clashing with the bold colours of the clothes modeled, creates the most visually vibrant and audacious fashion stories I have ever seen and I absolutely loved it and can't wait to try something similar myself.

So cheers Dazed for refreshing the fashion scene this summer. I was getting a little bored of the dull, unimaginative shoots that have been filling the fashion magazines at the moment.