Vogue's Rear Window-Inspired Editorial Stars Tobey Maguire, Carolyn Murphy; Styled by Grace Coddington

Only men are allowed to look puny and unintentionally disheveled in the pages of Vogue, or that's the message I'm getting from the Peter Lindbergh-lensed editorial in the glossy's April issue (covered by Michelle Obama).

Grace Coddington (who I know is fashion's Miss Congeniality, but all the press surrounding her book release left a bad taste in my mouth) "styled" actor Tobey Maquire (starring in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming Gatsby) in greasy hair and tissue-thin blue button-down pajamas with black piping to match his wheelchair and leg cast for a Rear Window-inspired photo story. He poses alongside model Carolyn Murphy, who does her Fifties bombshell best with dead-ringer Betty Draper hair, dressed to the nines in floral prints, furs, tulle, elbow-length gloves and fitted skirts. It's too bad Christian Dior named his then-revolutionary silhouette the "New Look" because our world will implode from the weight of the contradiction if we keep calling it that. 

In addition to piggybacking on/"being inspired by" the recent Alfred Hitchcock mania (which consists of the new series Bates Motel, the 2012 biopic Hitchcock and HBO's new film The Girl, which is about the director's exploitative relationship with actress Tippi Hedren), I'm pretty sure this editorial hopes it's also tapping into the April 7th Mad Men season premiere.

There have been so many fitted skirts flitting across our screens, there is plenty of reason to think there may be a retro revival happening, it's just — Vogue's portrayal of it would have been more interesting if it weren't boringly imitating costume and set design. So what to do you do if you want to go in a classic direction without ending up with a retread of a retread? Drag. Let's see how that "devilish red lip" looks on a man. (Seriously, I'm just asking for more photos of women sloppily wearing pajamas; I want to be able to roll out of bed in the morning and look like a Vogue editorial.)

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