Editorial: Two-gether

Η Vogue Greece κατάφερε μέσα σε δύο χρόνια να γίνει το νούμερο ένα περιοδικό μόδας στην Ελλάδα, με σχεδόν εξ ολοκλήρου πρωτότυπο περιεχόμενο με ηχηρές υπογραφές και μεγάλες αποκλειστικότητες, να διοργανώνει παραγωγές με top models και Hollywood stars από τη Μελβούρνη και το Κέιπ Τάουν μέχρι το Οντάριο και τη Φλόριντα, να δημοσιεύονται editorials της σε άλλες δέκα διεθνείς εκδόσεις της οικογένειας της Vogue και να έχει διοργανώσει το μεγαλύτερο συνέδριο ηθικής μόδας, με Guest of Honor την Anna Wintour.

Το τεύχος που κρατάτε στα χέρια σας είναι αφιερωμένο στη χαρά. Σε όλα αυτά που μας κάνουν να νιώθουμε ωραία σε αυτή την περίεργη εποχή που ζούμε. Η cover star του εξωφύλλου μας, Karen Elson, ένα από τα πιο εμβληματικά διεθνή μοντέλα, φέρνει την άνοιξη με το πλατύ της χαμόγελο, φωτογραφημένη από τον κορυφαίο φωτογράφο μόδας Sebastian Kim, με styling της θρυλικής fashion editor Τοnne Goodman και ένα concept για την επανεκκίνηση και την αισιοδοξία.

Εύχομαι πολύ σύντομα η πανδημία να αποτελέσει παρελθόν, να επιστρέψουμε στις συνήθειές μας πιο σοφοί και ώριμοι, να αγκαλιάσουμε ξανά όλους αυτούς που αγαπάμε χωρίς φόβο και δεύτερες σκέψεις, να επιστρέψουν τα φιλιά, τα χάδια και οι χειραψίες. Να νιώσουμε και πάλι τη χαρά να είμαστε μαζί. Εύχομαι του χρόνου τέτοια εποχή να οργανώσουμε ξανά ένα μεγάλο πάρτι, γεμάτο χαρούμενους ανθρώπους που θα διασκεδάζουν μέχρι το πρωί, και όλο αυτό να είναι μια μακρινή ανάμνηση.

Ένα πολύ μεγάλο ευχαριστώ για τη στήριξη και την αγάπη που μας δείχνετε. Συνεχίζουμε δημιουργικά.

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Two-gether

These days mark a year since the day we entered the first lockdown and two years since the big party we had celebrating the Greek Vogue edition by Kathimerini group. Looking at the pictures from that night, I find myself thinking, “So many people in a closed space, no distance between them, so many hugs, happy faces, smiling faces, not hidden behind masks.” It seems like another life.

A year later, instead of celebrating with another party, we locked ourselves in our homes and we all wished for the same thing: for the nightmare to end quickly, for us to get out of this experience healthy and to be able to meet again soon. Meanwhile, we were closing another issue through an all-new process, with zoom calls, voice messages and endless chats. We were tested under extremely difficult circumstances and we emerged victorious, because our team was strong. The same team that I’ve been missing so intensely for a year now, during which our offices seem so empty. I miss the endless talks with Elis, Elena, Vlassis, Kelly, Naya, Vasiliki, Argyro, Elena and Sophia, the turmoil in the editorial room with our beloved Anna asking us to be quiet in order for her to edit our pieces, the always on point comments by Dimitra and Alexandra, our revision girls.

I am extremely happy that Vogue Greece is the result of people who love their work more than anything, who are passionate about what they do and proved that they can cope under difficult and unprecedented circumstances, having created issues that our readers so fondly embraced. This editorial is dedicated to them, as a huge thank you. And, most importantly, it’s also dedicated to our creative team, Nicholas, Dionisis, Johanna, George, Chryssa, Thaleia, Vyronas, who had to get out there and, overcoming adversity and delays, work hard and create wonderful editorials, filled with images that took us on journeys to bright worlds during those dark months. And, of course, I would like to thank Giorgos and Alexia, for their continuous encouragement and support at any given moment.

Vogue Greece managed to become the number one fashion magazine in Greece in two years, with almost entirely original content with big names and exclusives, creating productions with top models and Hollywood stars from Melbourne and Cape Town to Ontario and Florida, seeing its editorials published in another ten international editions of the Vogue family, and having hosted the largest sustainable fashion conference, with Anna Wintour as the Guest of Honor.

The issue in your hands is dedicated to joy. To all the things that make us feel good during these peculiar times. Our cover star, Karen Elson, one of the most iconic international models, lets us know that spring is here, with her wide smile, photographed by top fashion photographer Sebastian Kim, with legendary fashion editor Tonne Goodman having undertaken the styling, and with a concept about restarting and positivity.

I hope that the pandemic will soon be part of the past, that we’ll return to our habits wiser and more mature, that we’ll get to hug all the people we love without fear or second thoughts and that kisses, caresses and handshakes will return. That we’ll feel the joy of being together again. I wish that this time next year we’ll organize a big party, filled with happy people having fun till the morning and that all this will be but a distant memory. A big thank you for the support and love that you show us. Let’s keep being creative.

Translated by Nina Zve

Published in Vogue Greece’s April 2021 Issue.

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