The August issue of W Magazine is definitely one you don’t want to miss. Cleavage, bare bottoms, suggestive poses, and provocative innuendo stretch along the NSFW category in the upcoming installment. Styled by Edward Enninful and photographed by Mert and Marcus, who recently shot Givenchy’s Fall 15.16 campaign ads (one featuring Donatella Versace), models Anna Ewers, Barbara Palvin, Bella Hadid, Chrissy Teigen, Doutzen Kroes, Emily Ratajkowski, Irana Shayk, Joan Smalls, Lily Aldridge, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley fill the pages of W with overt sexuality.
Flaunting voluminous hair — courtesy of Jimmy Paul — and delicate lingerie, the models impart prolific amounts of sex appeal. Set in what appears to be a cheap motel, the models lean against, straddle, and bend over colorful furniture with a dated 70s feel. Who would have ever thought a plastic covered couch could look so good?
Emily Ratajkowski rocks tousled short hair and mesmerizing smokey eyes, wearing blush-toned lingerie with matching lacy ankle boots. Ratajkowski shares her biggest beauty secret with W Magazine.
“Moisturizing is the most important. When you’re traveling a lot it’s just good to keep putting that stuff on because the air dries you up on the airplane.”
Irana Shayk poses in a sheer mustard top sans pants. When discussing what she wears to bed, Shayk says,
“It’s gonna sound not sexy at all. I like to sleep with big underwear. It’s very comfy, and like a T-shirt and like a big thick blanket. I’m from Russia so I hate cold. I always like to dress myself before I go to bed.”
Positioned as if being frisked, Rosie Huntington-Whitely seductively stuns in a coral piece with white lace trim. On her supermodel celebrity and large following, she explains,
“You know your followers when you see them in the street and they tell you they follow you on Instagram. It is kind of strange because you think you’re gonna meet those people.”
Bella Hadid stares off into the distance with an overall dated, decades-past look. Her hair in big curls and fingers securing a lit cigarette (similar to her V Magazine shot), Hadid sits idly with her leg extended in hand.
Model Anna Ewers lies on her back, cheeks and breast exposed in sequined red two-piece with black lace.
A doe-eyed Lily Aldridge sits with right leg crossed, donning an unbuttoned polka dot blouse, black tights, and pointy-toe pumps.
Joan Smalls exaggerates her long legs in high-waist corset underwear and patent leather orange heels. When asked about the craziest thing she’s done for fashion, Smalls said
“[Posing with] reptiles, which I’m okay with. I can do snakes, but they gave me some dead fish. And it was hanging over me and it was still dripping with the blood and the smell, it was so disgusting.”
Barbara Palvin sits hunched over clutching her gold shoe in one hand, a cigarette in the other. Who’s the model’s celebrity crush?
“I would pick Johnny Depp. I love his work, he’s an amazing actor.”
Leaving very, very little to the imagination, model Chrissy Teigen poses nude, lounging topless on a plastic protected sofa wearing white high-waist briefs and Victorian-style white lace-up boots. She speaks about on-camera nudity, revealing:
“The most uncomfortable I’ve been on set was having to model coats. So I’m the most comfortable in my own skin. Literally, just in my own skin. I don’t know what it is, but I think sometimes pieces of clothing will be unflattering. Like there are certain things you can put me in where I won’t look the same as that 5’11” beauty and sometimes I make really fashionable clothes seem a little frumpy and that’s just my body type, that’s just me. I actually am better in less clothing. It’s a blessing and a curse.”
Back out, Doutzen Kroes exposes cleavage in a glittery dress that barely clothes the sexy supermodel. She sits with “come-hither” seduction, while straddling an ottoman.
“I don’t like it when people ask me questions when I’m with my family, but I understand and I always take pictures with everybody because I can’t say “no,” it’s hard for me to say “no.” I think if I was in the same position as they are I would like to have a picture taken, but when I’m with my kids it’s not something I’d like to do,” Doutzen says.
Photos via Mert and Marcus
