US Vogue ‘Digital Cover’ October 2024 : Kamala Harris by Annie Leibovitz

[vogue22]

This digital cover just reiterates the ridiculous childishness of Anna Wintour for her refusal to put Melania Trump on the cover of Vogue. People are evidently supportive of this woman, and as a First Lady (for the second time I might add), it is about time that the fashion industry stops being so biased.

Anna Wintour espouses nonsense about how fashion and Vogue is supposedly "a mirror of the times we live in", well, Ms. Wintour, now is the time to show some integrity and stay true to your word. After all, is Vogue reflecting the times we are living in, or is it reflecting the times you are specially curating that reflects your own narrow world view?

This is a great opportunity for Anna and Co. to use the Vogue platform to demonstrate to the readers that regardless of their affiliations that fashion has the power to unite and bring people together. Vogue has a choice now, to be inclusive (as they are always going on about) or to be petty and cause more division. It will be very interesting to see what kind of position they take.

I predict they will not take the high road and that Vogue UK or Vogue Paris will embrace Melania in due course, which will just reiterate the waning power of Vogue USA.

Melania Trump on the cover of Vogue France and British Vogue? Let's not kid ourselves this is never happening in a million years especially now that Anna and Edward are controlling all the major European editions of the magazine.

 

[vogue22]

No she didn’t.

It’s weird to me that people act like First Ladies getting a Vogue cover is a real tradition, Anna just put Michelle, Hillary and Jill on the covers. There was no precedent. First Ladies belong on magazines like Ladies Home Journal or Redbook, not Vogue. Period.

Thank you!

 

[mepps]

Queen Melanie doesn't need some worthless Vogue cover.

 

[alwaysademo]

Time for Anna to put her biases away and follow in her father's footsteps for serious journalism. It's not like Vogue is a serious fashion magazine anymore for a long time now.
She used to work for Viva (Penthouse's sub title) and dated Hitchens. I don't get why she's such a prude these days. Of anyone working in fashion today, she's the only one who could withstand the uproar.
Liz Cheney or Jill Biden by Leibovitz is an event to no one. How about the Trump clan by Leibovitz. There's a picture to talk about.
Or, better yet, go back to her roots and go full stop fashion. Give the platform to people who deserve it. Not this Norman Jean Roy every other month nonsense.

(Also I was scrolling and couldn't believe the whole Annie Leibovitz vs. Black people debate still going on! Don't want to defend the Vitz but her pictures of the gymnast and Viola and especially Misty Copeland are sadly, as someone who's literate enough in her visual vocab, one big corny love letter, if anything. Must be hard for her to receive this backlash. Look at Whoopi's iconic milkbath picture, that understandably could've caused concerns and didn't, in fact it elevated her career overnight.)

 

[Scotty]

Melania had her cover during the golden years. I'd like it if she got another one. She's actually fashionable, regardless of what people think of Trump.

 

[NakedAndAfraid]

As a non US residentI find this intersection really interesting (and telling maybe). Coastal elite Vogue putting only democrat first ladies on the covers is funny.

Celebrating the end of democracy with a Melania cover now would just be a hoot.

 

[tomtakesphotos]

im a leftist, but, i feel like anna should put melania on the cover some time of the next 4 years, like, theres been some pointless athletes on the cover over the decades who have sh*tty political views, this is trumps exit, we wont have to deal with him again after these 4 years, he's out-- we will be free, it's silly to not put her on it, and she can be interviewed about the sh*tty zara coat she wore, idk

 

[JohannesL]

Vogue should stop promoting those corrupted politicans wives(bush, clinton, obama, biden, trump etc.) and go back to what makes Vgoue a great name like Carine's VP and Franca's VI.

 

[blueorchid]

I don't get why people think Melania "deserves" a Vogue cover, regardless of political affiliation, like Vogue is some sort of charity that everyone gets the the cover. Melania's a big girl, she can survive not getting a Vogue cover. No, being the first lady doesn't "entitle" her to it. Why people want her to get a cover is bizarre. So, just because she gave Michelle Obama/Jill Biden a few covers means Melania has to have one too?

he's out-- we will be free, it's silly to not put her on it, and she can be interviewed about the sh*tty zara coat she wore, idk

I don't get it, why does this entitle her to be on the cover of Vogue? Just because she exists? Why does everyone need a turn?

 

[Hchloe]

^ Thank you! I'm so confused by these comments. Trump aside, what would she even talk about? what does she even do?

 

[NakedAndAfraid]

Doesn't she have a book out? She could also talk about how she doesn't give a f@€& about Christmas etc.

I mean I don't think she should get a cover, it would be signifier of a mood shift though. Of Vogue not being married to a single party. They do want sell to everyone I assume without prejudice.

 

[blueorchid]

Doesn't she have a book out? She could also talk about how she doesn't give a f@€& about Christmas etc.

I mean I don't think she should get a cover, it would be signifier of a mood shift though. Of Vogue not being married to a single party. They do want sell to everyone I assume without prejudice.

I'm still not getting it. She deserves a Vogue cover... why? What mood shift would it signify? Why is that Vogue's responsibility? Since when does Vogue want to sell to everyone without prejudice? You have read Vogue, right? Do you truly think Vogue is aimed at everyone? She'd make more sense on the cover of Time magazine. This is beyond inane. This isn't the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

 

[NakedAndAfraid]

I'm still not getting it. She deserves a Vogue cover... why? What mood shift would it signify? Why is that Vogue's responsibility? Since when does Vogue want to sell to everyone without prejudice? You have read Vogue, right? Do you truly think Vogue is aimed at everyone? She'd make more sense on the cover of Time magazine. This is beyond inane. This isn't the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

I have not read Vogue in ages that's for sure. I do remember that they have had features about fall trends etc.

Could a make-a-wish kid ask for a Melania cover then?! She did use to be a model you know!!! That makes her more of a natural pick over Kamala for sure...!!

If Vogue is really truly selective on whose money they want, I wonder if the same can be said of the advertisers. Just thinking out loud, I thought print was dying and all. Melania cover could lead to boycotts and protests though I guess...

I think I'm mostly joking here, but I would like to see Vogue be more unpredictable.

 

[MulletProof]

I think I'm mostly joking here, but I would like to see Vogue be more unpredictable.

You kind of have a point. I think it doesn't help to contribute to the divisiveness and to treat a gigantic part of the population as less-than. It's a good idea to start to pull them to a side that is more mainstream, less fringe-y and extreme and feed them information (after all, they're the most gullible part of the population too).

Melania has been on the cover though, not as a First Lady but surely as the wife of a prominent businessman in the US, who can say that anymore?. When she was featured on the cover, as a legitimised member of high society, wearing Dior, that was far far more Vogue, historically, than putting her on the cover as a political figure.

That said, Vogue, as a rather archaic form of media, is in a very vulnerable spot and if there's one thing more unforgiving than their readership, that is time. The country is not divided for the sake of playing black and white but for how hateful and deranged (entering Taliban ideology) the main figures on the right are (from wanting to dissolve Ivy League schools to the 'your body, my choice' guy), yes they won now but 4 years are so nothing and depending on what they're able to achieve, a democracy works in waves so who knows how progressive the administration in, say, 2032, is going to be, and Vogue will not be able to justify it. Additionally, their readership tends to have higher education, the majority of republican voters are not college-educated, so while the effort to lure them into the publication might be lucrative, will they even stay..? seems like demanding at all costs to put an icon of heavy metal on the cover when.. do their consumers listen to that?

In short, I do agree with @blueorchid about the weird 'she's EARNED this!' argument.. but have also learned to accept that fans of Vogue do see this as the Nobel Prize of all things fashion lol, you either deserve it or don't deserve it.

 

[blueorchid]

I think it doesn't help to contribute to the divisiveness and to treat a gigantic part of the population as less-than.

But I don't see why this is something people who are more "left" (LOL) or the "Democrats" should do. Shouldn't the Republicans be the ones extending the olive branch, now that they're the "victors"? This is so weird to me, typically this isn't something the "losers" do. Besides, not everything is for everyone.

 

[MulletProof]

^ the way I see it, it's not quite the same because popular culture (Vogue being in it) is publicly left (emphasis on public 🌚), so trying to see it from the perspective of younger/female republicans, the dems do gatekeep these outlets that celebrate, in popular culture, their icons, and easily hand them out to whoever aligns with their ideology or remains neutral. They don't really chase popular culture relevance (which Melania, for better or for worse, has) and study it.. it's kind of weird, but then again, I would not want to be forever remembered for making that poor cover choice years down the line, or 50 race-based mass shootings later.

 

[alwaysademo]

People keep putting in a good word for Melania is hilarious.
I'd say when they all start to warm to this administration in maybe less than a year's time, Usha Vance is very much US Vogue material. And Susie Wiles.

 

[NakedAndAfraid]

Thank you @MulletProof for the good analysis!

I pay attention to politics only when something big happens, I find it so demoralising. The corruption and lies.

I was thinking of Vogue more as a glorified clothes catalog, not as an active participant in the US culture wars. Doing campaigning for political candidates is kind of like jumping the shark to me.

Melania is compelling to me like an antihero. She doesn't want to be there and gives very little f***s. I find that very engaging. I see a little of Cersei in her. I guess highly educated women don't really find that aspirational though, and I can respect that.

Being outside the US I'm missing a lot of the cultural ethos I think. We have a multi party system in my country, and thinking of selling clothes only for half of the population like US Vogue sounds bizarre. Our fringe right party is just 10 -20% I think, so that's not that many to exclude.

 

[tigerrouge]

If little is heard from someone occupying that sort of position, it becomes easy to ascribe any type of emotional character to them, including a fictional one.

We only know her from her outward decisions - she chose to marry Trump in the first place, and has chosen to remain married to him for several decades throughout every stage of their life. Her precise reasons for any of that may be unknown, but she has chosen that path for herself, and to end up where she has.

 

[NakedAndAfraid]

There is precedent of her saying eff this and eff that. That's what I like to imagine her personality to be.

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