Celebs vs. Models on Magazine Covers

Why is there such a big deal over a model being on the cover of US Vogue?

I must admit I used to complain about how Vogue US should put a model on the cover...

But I was just thinking to myself a while ago..

Why does it matter?!

I guess it's that a majority of people on tFS love models, including me and we spend countless hours on tFS praising and glorifying their never-ending beauty...well most of us.

I mean, maybe it's nice for us to see our favourite model on the cover of Vogue US but let's face it...

22,000 (im just guessing numbers here) of us long to see a model on the cover but then..theres the rest of the world who probably aren't as aware as us on models etc... they're just looking to see next seasons trends etc.

As there are celebrities on the cover of Vogue US, they are a lot more recognisable to people than say...Lily Donaldson..:ermm:

Models aren't such a big thing today, they're stereotyped as 'dumb, conceited and anorexic'. Not many people know that this is just a stereotype or maybe not..

With a celebrity on the cover it obviously sells more and more approachable to everyone...

Just stating my opinion...:blush:
 
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For me, anyway, because it's a fashion magazine, not a promotional showcase for whatever new film that actress has.
 
I agree that tFS wants it because they love models and find celebs 'boring' often. I am guilty of that as well. BUT if we view this problem from within the industry it's a completely different story.

In the past, the covers of Vogue US belonged to the model, there was no place for celebs. Somehow the celebs took over the cover, but one thing remained. Vogue US is still one of the biggest fashion magazines out there...people still refer to it as the fashion bible. Anna Wintour is the most important and influencial person in the fashion business, like it or not. If a model lands her butt on the cover of the number one fashion bible and has the official approval of La Wintour in its biggest way possible, then that pretty much confirms your status in the modeling world and even brings it to another level, no?
 
I think allot of the people devoted to fashion, and people who read Vogue religiously are more into models than they are to stars. Thats my take on things...dont get me wrong I love me a little SJP, Gwen, LL, ONCE in a while, but not every single month, or in every single mag (not just Vogue). In the beggining it was new...so I was stoked, but its gotten to a point where it becomes boring and uninteresting (especially if the star is releasing 2-3 movies a year= 2-3 covers). I think we just need some type of change for now, to keep things interesting for readers.
 
Source | The New York Times | Sunday March 9th

A Glossy Rehab for Tattered Careers by Ruth La Ferla
Lindsay Lohan wants you to know that she’s all right. Reminiscing about the series of scandals that have sullied her name and nearly deep-sixed her career, she is all contrition. “When I look back on this last year, it’s like what was I thinking?” she confided in the March issue of Harper’s Bazaar. “I’ve learned so much, though, like learning to live my life a different way.” No need to take her word for it. Images speak persuasively, and in the case of Ms. Lohan, who appears this month inside Bazaar and on its cover, they do what they can to counter the perception that she is a train wreck, yesterday’s news.
The cover, shot by Peter Lindbergh soon after Ms. Lohan’s third round in rehab for alcohol abuse, makes her look as if she had spent the last 12 months thriving on yoga and a diet of sprouts.
It is the most sophisticated of a trifecta of March magazine covers to feature the troubled star — including a near-nude shot by Bert Stern for New York magazine’s spring fashion issue and a provocative pose for Paper, the alternative style monthly. Together the covers represent a full-court press by Ms. Lohan and her handlers to reposition her as fresh-faced and comeback-ready.
She is the latest Hollywood celebrity to seek to overcome scandal through the redemptive power of glossy fashion imagery. Last June, six months after her arrest for drunken driving, Nicole Richie modeled on the cover of Bazaar with Paris Hilton. In September, not long after Britney Spears’s first go at rehab and her divorce from Kevin Federline, she vamped for Allure, the beauty magazine. Drew Barrymore, Vogue’s current cover girl, first graced the magazine’s front in 2005 when many readers still recalled her years of drug abuse.
“A cover on Vogue or Bazaar, I think of it as the new celebrity rehab,” said Liz Rosenberg, the publicist for Madonna. “Some people go to Utah,” she said, a reference to the Cirque Lodge detox program, where Ms. Lohan was treated. “Others go to Smashbox and do a photo shoot.”
The audience for such makeovers is not just the ticket-buying public. The glamorous covers are also aimed at movie directors and executives — a very high-end head shot. “A person in a position to greenlight a movie project might say, ‘Oh, I guess she’s turning her life around,’ ” Ms. Rosenberg said.
That is Ms. Lohan’s hope, her publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, acknowledged last week. “Her appearance on Bazaar is part of a strategic repositioning,” she said. It is an attempt to recast the actress as the pulled-together antithesis of the bad girl who was scolded in 2006 by a producer for failing to show up on the set of “Georgia Rule.”
“Right now I just want to find a great script, a great role,” Ms. Lohan said in the March issue of Paper. She is shooting “Dare to Love Me,” a movie about a tango star, but has not completed a movie since starring last summer in the horror film “I Know Who Killed Me,” which flopped. “Fashion can put a calm, fresh and vital face on a recovering soul,” said Sally Singer, the fashion features director for Vogue. “Some people can appear on a cover and suddenly seem relevant again.”
Ms. Lohan, 21, looks mature and confident on the cover of Bazaar. Such a laboriously constructed image, thanks to makeup artists and digital retouchers, is meant to serve as a corrective to the awkward, sometimes ugly celebrity candids in tabloid weeklies. “As a publicist, I would be high-fiving myself for getting Lindsay Lohan on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar,” said Chris Miller, Ms. Barrymore’s manager and publicist. “It tends to smooth out that edge and negate when she’s on the cover of Life & Style.”
He added that it can eventually translate not just to film roles but to advertising contracts. Ms. Barrymore, who wrote directly to Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor, to campaign for a cover in 2005, according to Mr. Miller, is the current face of Gucci fine jewelry and the latest face of CoverGirl cosmetics. “That first cover was a power tool in putting her out there,” Mr. Miller said.
More than a talk show appearance or a stroll along the red carpet, a magazine photo shoot, with its army of enablers to select the right clothing and makeup, casts a performer in the best light. “It’s a safe atmosphere where the star has some control of her image, her words and the fashion that she is putting out there,” Ms. Sloane Zelnik said.
Winona Ryder must have thought so. Last August, five years after a humiliating trial and conviction for shoplifting, she was persuaded by Vogue’s editors to pose for the cover. It was Ms. Singer’s job to reassure her. “Before the shoot I told her, You can show your face to the world in the context of clothes in which you look beautiful,” she recalled. If an actress is hoping to dust herself off after a fall, she added, “this is a good way to do it.”
Of course it also pays returns for the magazines, as scandal-craving readers snap up the issues, which often promise a star’s first on-the-record account of her troubles. And if the interview is anodyne — or even nonexistent — there are always the pictures. Ms. Lohan’s Marilyn Monroe-inspired striptease for New York was the magazine’s biggest selling issue of the past four years, a company spokeswoman said.
The kid-glove treatment from fashion magazines has long made them popular with public figures who have suffered a reversal, especially when they are seen as women scorned. For them, “the best revenge is looking good,” Ms. Singer said. In 1990, Vogue put Ivana Trump on its cover weeks after her highly publicized split with Donald Trump, who had left her for a model. The magazine photographed Hillary Clinton in 1998, in the aftermath of her husband’s dalliance with Monica Lewinsky. Jennifer Aniston scored her Vogue cover in April 2006, just after separating from Brad Pitt.
Alas, readers’ approval is not an assurance of a career comeback. Ms. Ryder has not been in a hit movie since her conviction, despite the Vogue cover. In Hollywood there is a feeling that a fallen star needs more than a magazine cover to redeem herself.
Fashion, and the reader, can be forgiving. Movie executives? Not necessarily. A star like Ms. Lohan, certainly, can hope to rehabilitate her image through fashion, said Robert Green, an executive producer of “Mad Money.” “But until she gets in a movie and it makes a lot of money, no one in the industry is going to care.”
Mr. Green had considered casting Ms. Lohan in “Mad Money.” But the idea, he recalled last week, “was made moot by the fact that at the time she was not insurable.” Her off-camera behavior was seen to be so irresponsible that the underwriters of film production budgets would not issue a policy.
“I told myself, O.K., let’s call Katie Holmes,” Mr. Green said. “She may have a weird personal life, but nobody thinks she’s not going to show up on time.”
Mr. Green is skeptical that a fashion makeover, however slick, holds much sway with industry power brokers. “I don’t think a Lindsay Lohan can overcome the things she’s done in her personal life by being on the cover of a fashion magazine,” he said.
Some of his peers are more generous, however. “An image on the cover of a fashion magazine could make you rethink somebody,” said Janet Hirshenson, a casting agent whose film credits include the coming “Angels and Demons.”
“People are not morons,” said Alison Owen, the producer of the current release “The Other Boleyn Girl.” “They know that with fashion, a lot of retouching goes on. Still, if you see someone in a magazine looking perkier, healthier and less skinny than they have for some time, consciously or subconsciously it makes you think, ‘Oh, this person is back in the ring; they want to be considered.’
“That undoubtedly is going to have an effect on you.”
 
^ Thanks for posting that article - it was an interesting read. And so very true.
 
I'd prefer models in the covers of fashion mags, because celebs already have the celebrity mags (at least here), and fashion is not about celebrities, because most of them don't have any fashion sense or style, just pay an stylist to choose for them (and thanks God they do that) so, why giving a cover to someone who is not really into fashion? I guess money is the answer, because actresses sell more mags than models, probably... and also because models at this time don't know or can't be also celebrities as Claudia, Linda, Cindy, Naomi... were.
 
I disagree. There are no interesting models anymore-the ones that really stand out-Liya, Chanel Iman, Noemie Lenoir-they are few and far between. Celebs are much better on fashion covers
 
How different the VOGUE team in each country select celebs or models for their cover?

So far I knows

UK - mostly has to be famous British celebs or models. Other than that has to be an established actress or model.

FRANCE - hottest model at time and the iconic one.

ITALY - newest and hottest comer, most conceptual cover compare to all the others.

US - 90% has to be a Hollywood stardom, the rest is the same as UK.

Anything to add ??:rolleyes::unsure:
 
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Germany puts famouis actresses and musicians on the cover. It's very rare that a newer model gets a cover they usually go for the famous German models and established models.

And I disagree about Italian Vogue. Meisel selects the models he likes and sure it's for certain that he gives some newcomers a chance if he likes them but he also gives his favourites from past seasons (Gemma, Karen, Amanda etc) covers.
 
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it's less each mags fault (like, everyone blames US Vogue for basically only putting actresses and singers up front) than just it going with the audience. the US is celeb obsessed, so celebs make it on the cover. easy equation. parts of each country's culture goes into the covers.
 
I've noticed that Vogue Nippon tends to favor models who look like anime characters: Gemma, Sasha, Lily, Snejana, Vlada, Stam.
 
i rather see models work the covers than those overrated celebrities.

Models know how to work it and they do it best
 
I think celebs are more interesting. These days, all the models look alike. Few stand out.
 
I continue to see models gracing "foreign" covers unlike the US covers which only model celebrities.

I'm tired of it, but maybe that's just the US... we don't know models like we know celebrities.
 
And the reason that we don't know models is that nowadays they are all bland
 
And the reason that we don't know models is that nowadays they are all bland

Agreed. IMO many of the current models are just vapid eyed creatures playing dressup... very few actually fascinate or inspire.

We have finally agreed on something scriptgirl :woot: :lol: :flower:
 

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