Best magazine covers

[mariemaud]

mnp

 

[Luxx]

For me an excellent magazine cover is all about the right combination of excellent models (or cover subject in general), stunning photography and appropriate use of text. I don't like cover text, its a pet peeve but text should at least be in an attractive font.





Credit: Herfamedgoodlooks.com

 

[SusanSuperstar]

fabulous choices!!!!!! I agree.......I don´t like too much Cover Text....I think it destroys the Cover Photo!

 

[mariemaud]

Excellent
thanks Luxx.............

 

[JJohnson]

Wow what lovely covers! You guys are awesome!!!!

 

[dano415]

Just adding two to the mix that we get locally here in IST.
These are more lifestyle mags than they are fashion-specific, but they are noteworthy in terms of design:

My favorites of the previous postings...
1st: anything posted by mariemaud and Luxx
2nd: those cool Dansk covers posted by Hana_N: Link

What a fun thread!

 

[Luxx]

I really love looking at very old magazines. I find them quite inspiring and its interesting to see just how much certain magazines have changed over the years.

Esquire: I love vintage Esquire covers. George Lois' work was brilliant.



Interview: Especially great since all the original covers were Warhol lithographs.



Playboy: Utterly vulgar now but in the 1950s - 60s they had some great cheeky covers.



Credit: Esquire.com | Playboy Archives | Used Magazines.com

 

[|PerfectTonight|]

Luxx those are interesting love the quite antique feel to them!

 

[Erin]

Luxx - I especially love the covers that you posted. Just fantastic. I wish more covers today have that type of artistic quality.

 

[KaE-YU]

gorgeous stammy!

gregkadel

 

[Melly5525]

Oh wow I love it!!! Shes like a blonde Cleopatra

 

[mariemaud]

Numéro 80 - Malgosia Bela by Camilla Akrans -


scan by Diesel max

 

[MissMagAddict]

One of My Most Fave Covers Ever......
Vogue Paris ~ March 2001
Karolina Kurkova by Nathaniel Goldberg

scanned by MMA

 

[seanutbutter]

For me an excellent magazine cover is all about the right combination of excellent models (or cover subject in general), stunning photography and appropriate use of text. I don't like cover text, its a pet peeve but text should at least be in an attractive font.

You practically took the words out of my mouth! I'm relieved to finally find someone who feels the same way I do about covers. I'm all for simplistic style covers, although you don't see many of those now days.

The following are covers I find exceptional, due to the healthy balance of text/pictures.


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I'm also a fan of "vintage" covers - like the last image above, for instance. That is a cover of Vogue from ~1920's, and I can only wish that someday editors will look back to those designs for inspiration. Maybe it's the artist in me, but I adore seeing drawings of clothes as opposed to actual pictures of clothes.

 

[a.t.]

VOGUE Paris

VOGUE Italia

UK VOGUE

iconography.net
herfamedgoodlooks.com
voguevanity.it

 

[a.t.]

VOGUE Germany

Numero

i-D

iconography.net
herfamedgoodlooks.com
i-dmagazine.com


So many covers...

 

[mint condish]

Wow, that Daria Numero one is killer!
I gotta find that bigger!

 

[tigerrouge]

For me, my personal favourite is a cover that features full-on glamour, but combines it with art direction that doesn't dumb down the image by cluttering it with text, so the strength of the beauty shines through. And rather than being bland, sometimes glamorous images can have a strange or quietly menacing undertone to them, if you can look beyond the tonged hair and perfect lipstick...

Using Vogue Italia alone for examples (image credit to fashion-iconography.net

 

[tigerrouge]

And because I can't be the only one who loves glamour, more of my faves from amongst the various Euro-Vogues (again, I own every single issue, but one

Image credit same as previous post.

 

[tigerrouge]

And yet more, from my cherished archive of women with unfeasible hair and killer eyeliner (I should start a blog where I can reminisce about all these covers