Benn98
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But she's British. That coupled with Emily Blunt's cover next month means that not a single American actress will have fronted the magazine this year. Lupita is African, Alicia is Swedish, Saoirse is Irish. Lady Gaga doesn't count since she's a singer-actress.
It's embarrassing and doesn't make up for the fact this this is a new face - there are so many more deserving American actresses that could've been on the cover this month. Especially since this cover is virtually a repeat from Rooney's 1st cover - same drab gray background, same short hair cut, same movie character. My goodness. This Novermber cover is trash, there's no other way to describe it.
If Anna is still so in love with British actresses and this idea of 'exclusivity', even in this new media landscape where Conde Nast is struggling significantly financially, that she's willing to book a cover that's going to bomb (which this will) in 2018 just because she can, she has no business editing this magazine, she should retire or edit UK Vogue instead.
The worse thing that could've happened to US Vogue was the announcement that Anna was staying on earlier this year.
You're quite right! I'm sure I speak for a few on here when I say we DON'T want her back at UK Vogue AT ALL. Sad to think that Elle, despite the way they went about it, ended up with a way more stronger offering than Vogue.
I've often wondered how Americans feel about the continued Anglification of US Vogue's covers, which really became more pronounced when Anna started using celebs. I'd have liked to believe that maybe it was due to Hollywood being a melting pot of different talents, and that she merely wanted to reflect that? After the endless Sienna, Keira, Carey, Kate W covers, most of the readers must like that sort of thing. The disconnect comes when you'll find that most of these women (Sienna and Carey especially) hardly booked any US glossy covers beyond Vogue. That's when one can gather that the majority of Americans probably don't know/care for them.