Favorite pictures: Not a huge fan of many of the models, but I found these pictures to be interesting, or pretty. I'm a big fan of texture, scenery, softness in the face, and less hard features. Also dislike a lot of beach shots as they've been done to absolute death and nothing is original about them. I like pictures that my eye can bounce back and forth between the model and background.

 

Brittney Nicole

 

Camille Kostek

 

 

Christen Harper

 

 

Kamie Crawford

 

 

Kate Upton

 

Lauren Chan

 

Lorena Duran

 

 

 

Lori Harvey

 

 

Nicole Williams English

 

Nina Agdal

 

Nina Cash

 

Olivia Dunne

 

Penny Lane

 

Sixtine

 

 

 

Wtf is Kate's cover? She looks so hard. There are so many better pictures she took. IMHO, they did Kate dirty this year and not in a good way.

 

I think the editors purposely chose the boring / unflattering pictures of all the "hot" ones to level the playing field with all the "not-so-hot" ones.

Well Christen Harper is hot. And Kate Upton looks pretty good. The rest is bad, very bad

15 minutes ago, TheDude2k said:

I think the editors purposely chose the boring / unflattering pictures of all the "hot" ones to level the playing field with all the "not-so-hot" ones.

That's kinda what it feels like tbh. However MJ is fairly keen to keep the magazine going, so don't think she's going to sabotage her career over bad covers. I truly think MJ has lost her touch (didn't have much of a touch in the first place. You will NEVER be Diane), and this is just her getting older (aka she wants to see herself represented more), and not having an "eye" for decent pictures anymore.

 

Also Yu Tsai needs to calm the fuck down when the yellow filtering over the pictures. I have a feeling he likes do this because it helps to cover skin flaws, however he's had to desaturate the original pictures so badly because when you put Yellow over tanned/brow/orange skin...it turns it muddy. Yellow goes better over Blue/Teals/Purple (barely)

for fucks sake 😔

CBS Morning

Jesus Christ what is this casting?! 90% of these women do not know what to do with their face, it's all so painfully amateurish.  

And there is ABSOLUTELY NO NEED for them to fly half way across the world to take the most mediocre photos that could have been done at your local community pool.  

are there still the hard copy images to come? or is this the whole kit n caboodle?

Yu Tsai needs to be fired, he's terrible for this magazine

My opinion is that Chrissy's photoshoot was done last minute, that's why they used the pool of her house lol.

Spoiler

I don't know if that's her house or not, but it's weird that all the models flew across the world and she just had a dam pool photoshoot.

 

Thanks for posting all these pics.

 

But, I believe she is Hailey Clauson rather than Gayle King on page 5.

 

Penny is the best and has the best breasts. 

 

The photography is bad.

 

So it looks like  Haily didn't do much at all for this issue?

1 hour ago, peroxideblonde said:

Yu Tsai needs to be fired, he's terrible for this magazine

💯 

And hire Cameron Hammond!  Bikini Lovers, Lavarice, Bikini Bible UK, etc.  The dude can make a piece of burnt toast look sexy. 

Some HQ images from the website
 

47 minutes ago, TheDude2k said:

💯 

And hire Cameron Hammond!  Bikini Lovers, Lavarice, Bikini Bible UK, etc.  The dude can make a piece of burnt toast look sexy. 

fire everyone and hire him to do the whole issue lol

1 hour ago, peroxideblonde said:

fire everyone and hire him to do the whole issue lol

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

From the CBS morning show story this morning  -

 

Reporter:  As the Swimsuit edition evolved, did you lose readers?

 

MJ:  Definitely, but we....didn't care.  We thought that the right reader would come along with us and the wrong ones we didn't want.

 

That pretty much sums it up.  F everyone that liked the swimsuit issue for what made it great in the first place.  

 

5 hours ago, TheDude2k said:

💯 

And hire Cameron Hammond!  Bikini Lovers, Lavarice, Bikini Bible UK, etc.  The dude can make a piece of burnt toast look sexy. 

His shoots are awesome but I hate his filters and colors  they need someone like Victor Robertof too. He’s great for lingerie but I saw his beachy shoots, they’re as awesome! 

The fact that MJ hasn't been fired is shocking.  And now that she openly admits she gives zero fucks about the customer, hopefully it'll be enough to get her fired, or at least push the magazine in a different direction.