We understand that it’s a little model-vs-celebrity when it comes to magazine covers these days (magazines need to sell so those magazine girls can keep their day jobs), but do models really have to try and trump the celebrities by stripping off on magazine covers?
British Vogue kicked off this current run of magazine covers featuring naked models with its June 2009 issue with Natalia Vodianova on the cover.
“Vogue generally deals with how we choose to clothe our bodies, but for this special issue we have diversified and looked at how we feel about those bodies, whether clothed or naked,” says Alexandra Shulman in her editor’s letter.
So to continue the body-pondering phase, we get to think about it when we spotted Helena Christensen on the cover of Citizen K’s Supermodel issue sporting hair that was bigger than her waistline, then again when Miranda Kerr took it all off for the cover of Australian Rolling Stone to raise awareness to the environment (ironically on the cover of a print publication).
We get it, models have nice bodies and with the Northern summer now in full swing, it is bikini season. But where is the high fashion we turn to Vogue for when you put Natalia on the cover of Vogue sans clothes? Even if Citizen K is French, nudity doesn’t really shock the French any more does it?
And as for Miranda and Bar Rafaeli on the cover of Esquire‘s July 2009 issue… let’s just write them off as lad’s mags getting a little extra publicity for their cover model choices (Rafaeli’s publicist must be working over time).
“I haven’t seen anything like that ever,’ said Rafaeli of the decision to wear nothing but words from Stephen King’s new short story on the cover. “So I wanted to be the girl who did it.”
Yeah, just do it. While it might be a Nike slogan, perhaps that’s what the magazines were thinking. Who needs stylists and clothes when you have a model with none?
What do you think of the latest batch of magazine covers featuring naked models?
Why be so bitter and attack the models when it’s not up to them to decide how to be styled for the shoot?
And anyway, they look fabulous naked.
how does a fashion magazine sell clothes when they don’t put them on the models?
Yes, they do look fab naked, but it is a valid point.. Why do so many fashion magazines have naked models with no clothes on the FP? I know I would pay more to have the front page model wearing my brands.. 🙂
Yes, it;s not really up to the models…
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