Celine in V Magazine! (August 2012)

[fred]

I didn't post a reply in the topic about her photo shoot for that Vegas magazine, coz I thought they were incredibly bland and hated the cheap colours of the dresses she was wearing, and didn't want to take on a feud with the positive parade. But this on the other hand, is quite different.

 

My first reaction to the first pic was that it reminded me of, as already mentioned, the OH shoot but also the swimsuit photo from the ANDHC shoot. My second reaction was that she's really into the 70ies look now. The show has a huge 70ies feel to it visually. And her bangs and clothes and accessories during this shoot have too.

 

The second pic I wasn't that fond of. Although it made me laugh out loud coz it seemed so out of character and I was surprised about it. Thought also it was a bit "desperate" pouting her underwear #ss out like that.

 

The third was yet another chock (at first glance I thought her arms were super large boobs!) but in a better way than the previous pic. It's "fun" and she looks like she's having a great time experimenting with all this. And the hint the ribbons on her head makes - to make us kinda think of the playboy bunny is quite fun.

 

The rest are also very nice. I am no fan of the teddybearpants pic though. Not the one where she's sitting in that white suit either. But overall I say bravo! to this photo shoot. You surprised me Céline, well done!

 

And to those who think every new photo shoot is for the new album: please chill.

 

/fred

Edited August 23, 2012 at 12:07 PM by fred

[CELINE MARIE]

Prince Harry, move over – for a surprisingly immodest Céline Dion!

 

The singer proves she is anything but camera-shy as she takes V into her Florida home for a risqué high-fashion photo shoot for the magazine's travel issue (on newsstands Aug. 30). Sporting blunt bangs, the mother of three poses topless and in barely-there outfits.

 

"I'm like this in my real life," Dion, 44, said of the surprising shoot. "I was scared a little bit because this is so different for me, but I'm glad I did it. Usually there's always a reason when I do a photo shoot, there's not the opportunity to go crazy."

 

With more than 200 million albums sold worldwide, five Grammys and countless hit records, Dion credits her illustrious career to maintaining the same persona on and off-stage.

 

"I've been an open book all my life and I think that's why people like me," she said. "For me to tell someone that my husband [René Angélil] had cancer, that we were struggling to have kids, or whatever we've gone through, talking about my life lets people know the real me."

 

Although she'll continue to perform in Las Vegas as part of a three-year residency, the Quebec-born singer's main priority is her family.

 

"I thought I had a life before, but until I was a mom, I had no idea. Why would I want a hit? Why would I want to win awards? There is nothing I can hope and wish for my career: I can just hope to be blessed as a mother for the rest of my life the way I am now. That's the only nomination I want."

 

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[Javito]

I was ok with them but NOW I'm terrified

 

:blink:

 

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WOW this is just too much!!! :sofunny: I'm LOOOVING THIS!!! I have to say it, Céline has SURPRISED me again with this photos, like she hasn't done in many years!!

 

Keep them coming! This photoshoot has to be for the album pleeease, or at least they should release it in a book! :in_love:

 

What's the Vegas magazine photoshoot?

Edited August 23, 2012 at 12:28 PM by Javito

[celinefanonline]

here's the topic... since it shouldn't be in the new album topic and should have it's own one!

http://www.vmagazine.com/2012/08/the-voice/

 

 

 

[davidjag79]

Slutty?! Really guys?! Get out of the 19th century! Céline is HOT and those photos are gorgeous! I love it! I'm so glad she's not just letting herself get old and become nothing but a ballroom gown artist.

 

Btw, I love the hair with the bangs! She looks so young!

+Agree!! O HOOOOLLLLYYY DIIIOOON!!!! So anxious to see the photo shoot for the album this is exciting!!

[Bell]

My second reaction was that she's really into the 70ies look now. The show has a huge 70ies feel to it visually. And her bangs and clothes and accessories during this shoot have too.

I haven't thought about this but you are right. The pics and the Vegas show are both very 70s. So that's the connection between them. Now it makes sense. The album is going to be entitled 'Water and a Flame'. The songs are the water and the pics are the flame. I'm just loving it more and more.

[davidjag79]

Celine gave me new pics for my birthday! Yay! GO Celine, Hot mama!!

[Skye]

here's more pic!!! that pic is Celine for sure!

 

 

btw all these r from facebook celinedionbannedwebsite

the photo shoot is really diverse though each pic is really different to each other!

 

I love the last 2!

 

Jeeeez, she's just SO sexy. It's true, it's a on the edge because it's Celine, but she's got SUCH a killer body! She's beautiful.

 

Rene must have gone wild after seeing her taking pictures like this - in a good kind of wild. But then again, he probably sees the sexy of Celine more than I think.

 

I also bet she had fun shooting those pictures. I can almost picture it in my head, doing goofy faces between takes. I kinda wish a BTS video would surface.

[Skye]

When I grow up, I want Celine's legs, and Celine's butt, and Celine's flat stomach...oh, and I want them all after having 3 babies, and...

[Julian]

What happened to our Celine? I Love the pictures,.... wow

OK some of them are a bit too much, but anyway, it is cool that she finally does someting diffrent

[Matias]

Í think the Chanel cardigans days are over HELLO MRS CELINE!!!! wow!!!! I bet she is going to get some HARD critics once the mag is out....very daring!!! but interesting I may say!

[I Drove All Night!]

I am literally jumping with excitement. This is AMAZING! She looks soooooo absolutely phenomenal... and to those of you that think a 44 year old woman shouldn't be posing like that.... HUSH! She looks stellar for a 25 year old, let alone a 44 year old. If you got it flaunt it! I am SOOOOO happy right now, this is exactly what she needed! The camera loves her!!!

[Edwin]

Very daring. Has one of the best pics I've ever seen of her and followed by the most absurd. Interesting...

[celine-rc]

I woke up to these pictures and all that I can say is that Céline is so hot! SHE'S SO SEXY! Really beautiful! I don't even recognize her!

[I Drove All Night!]

I have a feeling the internet is about to EXPLODE with Celine Dion! About time!!!

[drove all night]

All the pix:

 

http://www.vmagazine.com/2012/08/the-voice/

 

 

SHE'S SOOOOOO GORGEOUS!!!! The cooles pix of since quite a while!

[celine-rc]

I have a feeling the internet is about to EXPLODE with Celine Dion! About time!!!

 

I know!!!!

[Simon]

Some of them are really cool

Some of them are too much GaGa...

[TiagoFragoso05]

it is very unusual for Celine, FINALLY she came with something REALLY NEW.

OF COURSE is Celine !

Can't you see guys ? look her face, her mole on her neck , and face.

 

CELINE i'm so Proud of you for this photoshoot

[cmcdaori]

i definitely dont like them. not what a classy 44 year old usually does...

 

I agree cuz she talks about herself as an example to young generation, but she does differently, taking her clothes off. I must say that this is absolutely wrong.

Edited August 23, 2012 at 01:14 PM by cmcdaori

[onix]

I have a feeling the internet is about to EXPLODE with Celine Dion! About time!!!

 

Al least on twitter, take a look

Everybody are in shock as well.

This will be a BOMB!

Edited August 23, 2012 at 01:13 PM by onix

[anna]

:wub: sooo in love with this one

 

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Celine can do the ever hell she wants...this is what this photo shoot is telling me.

Love it !!!!

More power to her

[drove all night]

The V-Magazin-Text by Derek Blasberg

 

LAUNCH SLIDESHOW On a Wednesday night in June, Celine Dion’s preconcert meeting room is buzzing with activity. A wood-paneled fortress nestled below the Colosseum—the 4,000-seat theater at Caesar’s Palace built specifically for the icon in 2003— Dion’s lair is filled with a disparate group of super fans: big spenders from the casino, contest winners, and young people suffering terminal illnesses, all united by their love of one of the highest-grossing musicians in history, all waiting their turn to meet with the megastar.

When Dion swans into the room, time stops and all eyes land on the singer. With the patience of a saint and an honest-to-goodness sincerity, she greets each guest individually, one minute high-fiving a casino baller, the next crouched down on one knee, tears in her eyes, telling a young girl with cancer how happy she is to see her. Moments later the star shifts from lighting up the room to igniting the stage. And for a hundred scintillating minutes she performs her best-known ballads, pop hits, and even an Adele medley. Throughout, she makes adoringly corny jokes, which her dedicated fans thoroughly appreciate. (Can you imagine Madonna building a whole bit around the rhyme “It’s been a pleasure in every measure?”) She moves about the stage like a cross between a ballerina and a drag queen. The whole show revolves around her; the only other participant, besides a 30-piece orchestra, is a hologram of (you guessed it) Celine, which joins her in a duet. For the grand finale, Dion takes flight, her gown flapping in the wind as waterfalls cascade all around her. Seven standing ovations and an encore later, the crowd files out into the sweat-suited, smoky mass of Caesar’s casino, smiles plastered on their faces. Many then flock to the Celine Dion gift shop to buy programs, T-shirts, shot glasses, wine corks, feathered boas, military caps, key chains, clutch bags, and rhinestone-encrusted watches, all emblazoned with the performer’s face and logo.

“I’ve been an open book all my life, and I think that’s why people like me,” Dion says after the show. She is petite, polite, and lets her Québecois accent slip when not using her stage voice. “I’ve been criticized for it, but I’m not forcing myself to be the person that you see.” For this story—her first non-promotional photo shoot in six years—Celine channeled her inner playfulness. “I’m like this in my real life,” she says, smiling. “I was scared a little bit because this was so different for me, but I’m glad I did it. Usually there’s always a reason when I do a photo shoot, there’s not the opportunity to go crazy. With this it was two in the morning and I was still jumping on the trampoline. In the house, in my normal life, we are always playing. It doesn’t seem this way on stage, but I’m playing a lot.”

The over-the-top Vegas revue is an extension of Dion’s life, which is quite traditional when she’s not suspended in midair, a kind of singing unicorn. She revels in the time that she shares with her two-year-old twins, eleven-year-old son, and husband, René Angélil, the man who mortgaged his house to jumpstart the career of a skinny French Canadian teenager with the voice of an angel. (“He has been the only man in my life,” says Dion.) For the artist, there is no line between Celine onstage and Celine offstage. “For me to tell someone that my husband had cancer, that we were struggling to have kids, or whatever we’ve gone through, talking about my life lets people know the real me.” Dion takes pleasure in involving her fans. “I’ve shared everything with them,” she says, which she believes is the reason they’re so loyal. “They come for the whole package. I don’t think they just come for the songs.”

She is a passionate, honest, and open performer whose public face reflects who she really is, which as she attests is something uncommon in show business. Think about Whitney Houston, whose polished exterior in front of the cameras belied a more tragic reality. When Houston comes up in conversation, Dion looks sullen. “I’ve always been scared of the industry. Why? Because I think it’s a place where anything is possible. It’s a ‘yes’ place. Especially if you have success,” she says, adding that her big family has provided a network that keeps her out of trouble. “And then you think that you have family and friends, true friends. But then sometimes the love of a family is not strong enough to overcome.” She mentions Michael Jackson, whose music appears in the show, but Houston’s fate seems to have affected her more. “I was just in shock when Whitney’s life had been taken because of drugs. It’s a big loss for all of us.”

The performer on her radar now is Adele. “I think her whole image is good,” she says. “Very sophisticated for her age: the nails, the dresses, the hair, the size, and her talents as a songwriter and a singer. She’s the total package. The way that she is will definitely help the new generation of girls accept themselves.” The Adele medley in her concert is a new addition. “I wish I could sing the whole album!” she jokes.

Dion’s drive is incomparable. It’s like she was born to do her job. “I was brought into this world to do this, no doubt,” she asserts. When I compare her to Michael Phelps, the record-breaking Olympic swimmer whose physique seems to have been genetically designed to excel in the water, she cheers “I agree!” before raising her hand for an enthusiastic high five. “I really never had time to dream about my life,” she confesses. “I was five and my brothers and sisters were dressing me up on the kitchen table and making me sing Janis Joplin songs, and I didn’t even know what I was saying.” Her favorite story about her early days was when she made one of her first TV appearances, in a handmade dress, to sing a song written by her mom. “We couldn’t afford new shoes, so my Mom painted my red patent leather shoes white. The paint started to crack by the end.”

Well, Dion can afford new shoes now. Lots of them. (Her concert includes seven costume changes, all couture dresses that she personally commissioned from Armani, Versace, Elie Saab, and Balmain.) She’s made hundreds of millions of dollars in Vegas, toured the world, and has double-platinum records hanging on her wall and five Grammys sitting on her mantle. Yet with all that she’s achieved, it’s motherhood that has brought her the most satisfaction. “I thought I had a life before, but until I was a mom, I had no idea. Why would I want a hit? Why would I want to win awards? There is nothing I can hope and wish for my career: I can just hope to be blessed as a mother for the rest of my life the way I am now. That’s the only nomination I want.” And she’s serious. Asked what she would like her legacy to be, she doesn’t pick a record or soundtrack. “Motherhood,” she says. “Without a doubt. I did not lose myself to try to realize a dream. Everyone thinks that now I’ve climbed this ladder and I’m at the top of the top of the top. I really see the opposite. When I was five and nine and twelve, I was on the top of the ladder and I was looking down. My head was in the clouds. In time I came down the ladder. I’m a mother now. I’m more grounded now than ever before.” And with that she gives me a close, warm hug, the kind one gets from a lifelong friend, then gracefully departs to remove her makeup and return to her brood at home, where the star is simply Mom.

 

Manicure Jessica Peterson

Tailor Gladys Salvat

Lighting Designer Christopher Bisagni

Digital technician Lucie Hugary

Photo assistants Miguel Mori and Jose Arizmendi

Stylist assistants Kate Grella and Alexander Lai

Makeup assistants Ninni Nummela and Kristen Arnett

Hair assistant Judy Erickson

Production Helena Martel

Local Production Presscott McDonald and Constanza Camargo (MINY producers)

Shot on location at Celine Dion’s home in Hobe Sound, Florida

Video Alexa Karolinski

Retouching Picturehouse

Location EQ Splashlight Miami and ROOT [EQ]Special thanks Kim Jakwerth,

Sylvie Beauregard, René Angélil,

Patrick Angélil, Brett Hyde, Normand Leblanc,

Anna DeMartino, Zhane Richer (Dion’s personal hairstylist)

 

 

 

GIRLS & GUYS: DID YOU NOTICE: >>> VIDEO!!!! .... WHERE IS IT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[TiagoFragoso05]

I agree cuz she talks about herself as an example to young generation, but she does differently, taking her clothes off. I must say that this is absolutely wrong.

 

she is not showing anything but the back and belly.. this photo is not dirty or obscene.

i'm so proud that she came with something new, that will cause so much controversy.

[artistman2007]

I love that she has that confedant in herself and i accepted the photos she looks really cool and crazy a little bit lool but i prefered the vegas shoot to be honest

[artistman2007]

And since she became really crazy i hope someone tell her that she needs to pump her lips a little bit she will be really beautiful and it will make a bog diff on her new sexy look

[olemra17]

OMG!!!! I was like ... Its that really Celine?? She's doing that!!! I'm Still surprised. But can't deny that is a very great job. All these years we we're making a lot of critiques about Her ( we need some New , up tempo songs., New New and Blah blah) so Celine says so you want something New?? Don't worry you'll Have it!!!! Al pix are amazing except the one of The bunny with all that crazy teddy bears lol!!!

 

 

But we wanted that Celine Dion became # 1 again, so That's The price, a little extravaganza for a little time To call the attention...

 

 

Keep in touch we'll hear a lot about Celine in these day I mean a lot!!

[drove all night]

Let's keep an eye on vmagazine.com

 

There will be a VIDEO of the photoshoot!!!!!!! I've looked right now. Couldn't find it. Maybe they put it on next week???

[marc-02]

I... love... every... single... one... of the pics. PERIOD.

 

Come on guys, compared to the Vegas photoshoot, this one is for a FASHION magazine, you have to realize that... and come on, i've seen "weirder" and more risque photos of real fashion models in those out of this world poses... fashion mags and the pics in them are just the way they are...

 

We're just not used to seeing Celine this way, that's all... but other than that, the photoshoot was PERFECT!

Edited August 23, 2012 at 01:53 PM by marc-02

[BLM]

I was just about to say Frida is going to have hard time with some of these outfits, especially the bear pants one, but she already found all of them. Check out the closet topic.

 

Wonder how many stuffed animals had to die for those pants.

I can just see Nelson & Eddy running toward Celine to get those stuffed animals.