I have to say, I REALLY LOVED this issue. You have someone different for the cover, and an abundance of home-grown talent in the editorials, supplemented by articles about each girl. You also have two other fashion editorials. For a January issue - usually as thin as a teenage model - this is good stuff.
As for the cover - god knows people complain Eva's not on enough covers, and when she's used, they still ain't happy.
This issue also perhaps solves the question of why Lily Donaldson isn't pushed to the forefront in UK Vogue like the other girls are. They don't seem to like her very much. Sure, the article is polite about her, but when the best they can say is that her most likable personality trait is not pretending to be sophisticated, you know they're not impressed. They're slightly scornful of her - they try to claim that having a photographer for a father has left her indifferent to being a model, and that she doesn't care about turning up on time for things because it somehow doesn't matter to her, due to some sense of entitlement. In comparison to the adoration the other two girls get - both from the magazine and in Alex Shulman's weekly newspaper columns - Lily's article is a work of scarcely disguised dislike.
They even manage to turn praise for her beauty into a story of failure, by basing the start and end of the article on the scenario where people think she's going to be chosen to play a nurse in the Vuitton show because they're looking for classic beauties for the role. But by the end of the article, we learn that she wasn't chosen for it. That's not an uplifting affirmation of the girl's looks - though it does allow the writer to portray Lily as gracious about it.
The whole thing reads like a classic case of an interviewer not getting on with their subject, and then struggling to portray them in a good light. It's full of descriptions that superficially sound pleasant, because they have to write something nice, but which have a negative tinge to them. It's the funniest thing I've read in a fashion magazine in some time. And it doesn't make me love Lily one bit less.
Hope to see her more... 
