Sebastian Faena

Would the Pre-Fall 2013 collections make sense on safari? That seems to be the question Carine Roitfeld wanted to answer in her latest fashion story for Harper's Bazaar, "The Animal Nursery."

Roitfeld tasked Sebastian Faena with photographing the 16-page story, which features models like Kate Upton, Irina Shayk, and Tilda Lindstam and a variety of young animals including a disarmingly adorable ambush of baby tigers.

The story will run in all 26 international editions of Harper's Bazaar, but you can take a look at a few of the images in advance here in the gallery.

Photos courtesy of Harper's Bazaar

The second preview image for the debut issue of Carine Roitfeld's highly anticipated new magazine, CR Fashion Book, depicts a woman in black holding a doll swaddled in white.

The image, which stars model Marie Piovesan, is as much a study in contrasts as the previous glimpse at the magazine. In the first teaser, shot by Sebastian Faena, model Juliet Ingleby walks through a cemetery in a sheer lavender veil — and little else — flanked by three models dressed in head-to-toe black.

The first issue of CR Fashion Book is available for preorder now and will be on newsstands on Sept. 13. A look at the two teaser images here in the gallery.

Carine Roitfeld took time away from planning the launch of her new magazine CR Fashion Book to style three covers for the Youthquake issue of V Magazine. The first cover features musicians Sky Ferreira, Grimes, and Charli XCX wearing head-to-toe Givenchy, while another features models Stef Van Der Laan, Daniela Braga, and Kati Nescher wearing those flat-lined New Silhouette coats from Comme des Garcons Fall 2012. The final cover shows Nescher, Ava Smith, and Thairine Garcia wearing the intergalactic novelty tops from Fall 2012 Balenciaga.

Behind the Sebastian Faena-shot covers, the issue features a photo story on America's up-and-coming actresses lensed by Drew Barrymore and a showcase of student work from Parsons, Central Saint Martins, and RISD, among other design schools.

The issue will be on newsstands Thursday, but you can take a look at the three covers right here in the gallery.

Shirtless footballers have been in the spotlight since the start of the World Cup, but V Magazine's got a hot look at the women behind the players. Inspired by Argentinian botineras, aka footballers' wives, Dree Hemingway, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Constance Jablonski strike a few sizzling poses, snapped by Sebastian Faena, in a tribute to the game and the world's hottest bods. Brace yourselves, what comes next is straight up sexy.

>> Franca Sozzani is feeling it, and now Katie Grand is too: the six covers of POP Fall 2008 are evenly split between three black models (Jourdan Dunn, Naomi Campbell, Oluchi Onweagba) and three white models (Natalia Vodianova, Amber Valletta, Agyness Deyn), styled as "Hot Nuns" in Prada and photographed by Sebastian Faena.

Jourdan, with her Frida Kahlo brows, and Agyness, with her holy pose are most striking, but I for one can't wait to see the Agyness Deyn editorial inside we've been talking about for months.  You know, the one where Ryan McGinley had her jumping nude off a fire escape?
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