What? A Victoria Beckham magazine cover where she’s not stiffly posing and pouting? Surely not. But my eyes don’t fail me, Beckham almost looks natural as she perches on a block for the black and white cover of Vogue Turkey‘s August 2010 issue. Photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth, the mother of 3 and budding fashion designer advocates Turkish designers by wearing mostly Turkish designer clothes in the magazine. Do we love? I’m indifferent, after all Victoria Beckham sported this look during her post-Spice Girls failed-singing career days. Give us something new please!

Stella McCartney has been bringing a sense of youthful fun to their advertising campaigns of late, and fall/winter 2010-11 is no different. She enlisted Natalia Vodianova to front the campaign that is beautifully minimalist but jazzed up with some illustrations by Barry Reigate. Shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, the cartoon drawings around the Stella McCartney logo livens up the ad campaign and brings a lightness to the classic pieces.

We love it. Do you?

Love Kate Moss? Love fashion books? Love Mario Testino’s photography? If you answered yes to at least 2 of those questions, we have something you may be interested in – a peek inside Mario Testino’s limited edition book which follows the modeling life of Mpss – from her fashionable experiences in her early modeling days as well as behind-the-scenes shots taking during their (many) photoshoots together. Most of the shots have never been published and show a lighter side to Moss that isn’t often seen by the public.

“Mario took me to a new level of glamour,” Moss writes in the introduction. “I don’t think anybody had seen me as any kind of sexy model before he did. He was the one that transformed me. Before him I was just a grungy girl, but he saw me differently… He changed the way people thought about me as a model, for sure.”

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We secretly love Alessandra Ambrosio but we have to admit we were getting sick of seeing her around so much in ad campaigns and looking so amazing in Victoria’s Secrets ads. So it was a refreshing change to see the stunning Brazilian supermodel looking a little less Victoria’s Secret Angel and more dreamy-take-me-away sort of model on the cover of the August 2010 issue of Australian magazine RUSSH. Photographed by Will Davidson, we even love the accompany editorial that shows a different side to Ambrosio. We love.