Kate Moss's 1st and 28th British Vogue covers
Recently I posted about Kate Moss' 28th British Vogue cover. In the past 16 years she's had more than 2 years worth of covers. In 2000 she was on the cover of 4 British Vogues 12 covers. I cant think of any other model that has had more covers of a particular magazine than her. In fact the only person to cover a magazine more than her is Oprah Winfrey. However , its okay for Oprah Winfrey to cover every issue of O Magazine because she owns it.
One reader of this blog, got especially peeved by Kate Moss' appearance on the cover of British Vogue's September 2009 issue. Benedict left the following comment on that blog posts.
Alexandra Schulman has a lot to answer for:
1. If all you can do is put the same model on every cover then why bother coming to work. To think she is considered for U.S Vogue – hahaha!Anna Wintour she aren't
2. Your dress sense screams 'Mum of a dozen kids' not 'Fashion Editor'.
3. So much for taking a stand against size zero models, yet you support the drug habits of this drugged-out whore. What are you promoting here? The drugged-out, urchin heroine chic has been on our landscape for two decades, yet you continue to promote this in a fashion magazine – HYPOCRITE!
4. Your life changed when you landed at Vogue, unfortunately you have not changed ours.
So please stop raving about every F*** cover Kate is on because it's a F***** waste of space in your drugged-out universe. If you want fashion Buy ITALIAN VOGUE!
British Vogue – buy if you want to wipe it with your bottom!" - Benedict
Although, I dont agree with everything Benedict is saying he does make me raise the question. Has British Vogue jumped the shark by placing Kate Moss on 28 covers? It is quite excessive , its not like there is a shortage of Supermodels.
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I Love Kate Moss, she is an icon but I agree British Vogue needs a fresh new perspective
Ditto! I can see the point made, glad to see it from another perspective. Even though I would not put it that way.X
Dear Editor,
I appreciate you taking my opinion on board. Unlike Models.com and Fashionspot where it was deleted. So much for free speech and discussions.
I’m writing to give you some facts. Kate is not the only model to have been on the cover 4 times in one year.
In 1967 Jean Shrimpton and Celia Hammond had four covers each in one year.
During the reign of the supdermodels, most of them had about three covers in a particular year. The exception being:
Linda Evangelista, in 1991, she had FIVE covers in one year.
Some site might have you believe that Linda’s 13 covers is second to Kate’s 28 covers. WRONG – Jean Shrimpton and Christy Turlington have at least 20 covers.
Christy was the model with the most covers up to the year 2006 (until the madness to put Kate on nine covers since that time,
quite an accomplishment for an American Model that stopped modelling full-time in 1994.
I hope this helps with your stats.
Reference: http://www.fashion-iconography.net
Stats aside, to re-iterate my point, it’s ashame to waste a Vogue Cover that could Promote fashion. Instead what it has become so blatantly is Celebrity worship. Sad!
i completely disagree. British Vogue is one of the best editions. That is why its circulation is second only to american vogue. Alexandra has revolutionised the magazine.