Vanity fair- grimes- textual analysis

The magazine front cover creates a picture for who we are reading about, the colours, font and where everything is placed.

The masthead is slightly hidden behind the artist, grimes, featured. This makes the artist stand out and place her as the centre of attention. The font ‘vanity fair’ is written with posh, iconic and sophisticated. It’s a stark contrast to the basic, stylish font the rest of the magazine is written with. The differing sizes of font makes it look less boring and makes it seem much more stylish.

The actual picture has an array of colours, this means that the font all has to be in white for it to stand out and not clash with the colours. The colours also help make us understand that she isn’t pop or anything like that, she’s more edgy and possibly uses colourful language. This goes hand in hand with her pose, facial expression and outfit. This fits the artist grimes being quite unusual and ‘out there’. It’s extremely different to what most celebrities would do, helping her image.

The strap line is the second thing you read when going from top to bottom with it being the next biggest thing behind the masthead and the artists name. ‘The style issue’ this helps tell us as the viewer/ reader that we’re going to find fashion and other things.

This is the double page spread. The biggest text being her name and something to help promote her style. The whole ‘planet’, lighting, outfit and accessories, including makeup, give her an alien, out- of this world feeling. This gives her a clear style and brand. They’ve labelled some of the items of clothing this is probably being sponsored by some and others not. The listing of the clothes and stuff, goes along with vanity fairs’ strap line ‘the style issue’.

The specific lighting on her eyes gives her a demonic, alien vibe, this probably reflects her music. It’s such an intimidating picture. The entire spread shows and tells you who exactly your looking and reading about. A punk, out of the ordinary artist.