US Vogue December 2025 : Timothée Chalamet by Annie Leibovitz

[jeremydante]

US Vogue should have published two covers to choose from like last December with Kaia Gerber: One with Chalamet and another with the models in Chanel. Especially since it was such a big Chanel moment/event. I am sure print sales whould have been bigger.

I low key wish there was a bigger concentration on Creative Directors, and putting them on the covers of Vogue when these big moments happen. What better cover star than the designer taking over a fashion house? They put everyone else on the covers, why not utilize that space to promote the house and label?

 

[MModa]

I low key wish there was a bigger concentration on Creative Directors, and putting them on the covers of Vogue when these big moments happen. What better cover star than the designer taking over a fashion house? They put everyone else on the covers, why not utilize that space to promote the house and label?

Yes, before the official cover was released I imagined a cover or one of the covers with Blazy alongside models wearing his first Chanel collection.

 

[ivano]

Maybe is too early to see the Chanel collection on the cover of Vogue. In a normal year, January maybe, but now the wait will be until February/March. I doubt US Vogue Spring issue will have the Chanel cast on their cover. The celeb formula will remain in this new era.

 

[Rigida]

Maybe is too early to see the Chanel collection on the cover of Vogue. In a normal year, January maybe, but now the wait will be until February/March. I doubt US Vogue Spring issue will have the Chanel cast on their cover. The celeb formula will remain in this new era.

US Vogue already featured Chanel’s Spring 26 clothes on their Nov cover (Ayo’s cover)

 

[ivano]

^ Anna did that?! Wow, too soon indeed. Maybe she wanted to feature the collection before her final issue. November it's just the third fall/winter issue! 😲 I still find far from reality seeing the models and Blazy on the front of American Vogue. They're totally unknown for the US public aside fashion. Anna's Vogue is McDonald's, not Franca's Vogue. She put this guy to sell and shake.

 

[MModa]

^ Anna did that?! Wow, too soon indeed. Maybe she wanted to feature the collection before her final issue. November it's just the third fall/winter issue! 😲 I still find far from reality seeing the models and Blazy on the front of American Vogue. They're totally unknown for the US public aside fashion. Anna's Vogue is McDonald's, not Franca's Vogue. She put this guy to sell and shake.

True but during her tenure, Wintour also put a few not well known models to the US public on her Vogue covers like Kiara Kabukuru, Carmen Kass, or Karolina Kurkova pretty early in their careers. Obviously, the times were very different and advertising was high.

 

[ivano]

That was the supermodels/top era. Pop culture embraced hard fashion over the 90s. If you see the captions on the covers there's "a supermodel story", "supermodels has their flaws", "supermodels that...", but Anna and Tilberis changed the game going for celebs. The last models covers has nepos with some of the money girls of this decade (but never alone). It's crazy Vittoria, Rianne, Mona, Anok, etc, don't have their solo US Vogue cover. Aside nepos, these girls are the moment, but never made it as solo. If these group doesn't have a cover, why a cast of not so known girls will have it? And I'm afraid the Chloe girl will be some sort of female Will Welch for Vogue, only caring about the hype. Maybe Nina or Samira take the risk to put legit models on the covers, but US Vogue, in 2025 sounds like a fairy tale. I had the wish of Anna ending her ternure with a model cover just like her debut, but wasn't expecting that happening in real life.

 

[crmsn]

146 pages with 66 ads. Anna gives no hint this is her final issue, though. Her Editor’s Note reads more like a tribute to Annie Leibovitz than a reflection on her own tenure as editor‑in‑chief. Aside from the oversized format, there’s nothing truly “special” about this December issue. If the magazine continues to churn out regular issues of this underwhelming quality, then Chloe Malle’s proposal for fewer but more substantial editions with thicker paper and richer pagination might actually be the smart.

 

[VanillaCrush]

Just found this article about what this cover

https://petapixel.com/2025/11/19/did-we-lay-an-egg-annie-leibovitz-responds-to-timothee-chalamet-vogue-cover-reaction/

From the article: Leibovitz adds that Chalamet was a fan of the photos, and “that’s all that counts.”

Okay, well unless Chalamet is buying all the copies off the newsstands, it is not all that counts. They forget they are making a product to take to market. If you're only making magazines to kiss Hollywood butts, pretty soon it's just going to be you and your laptop, making digital magazine covers for your friends. That is, your magazine will disappear because no one else is buying it!

As for the rest of the editorials, I have never seen anything so bland and uninspiring. Magazines are our escape from the world, we look at them to enter the fashion space, not to see a mirror of the world.

 

[ivano]

My theory is that Vanity Fair had done the Hollywood issue and GQ the Man of The Year special as well. He ended up on the cover of Vogue, so CN couldn't avoid the promotion of Marty and getting its part. I wish Nicole was the legit final one, but now makes sense it was multicover. I really dislike how this looks like. Wasted opportunity to make a legendary cover. Edward Enninful at least left in a high note. His 40 women cover was a nice way to close a ternure in Vogue.

 

[BalkaniStaCouture]

So is this really Anna’s last cover or not?

 

[Zorka]

THE DEBUTANTS (Complete)
Photography: Mikael Jansson
Styling: Amanda Harlech
Hair: Eugene Souleiman
Make-up: Karin Westerlund
Models: Charlie Jones, Stella Hanan, Angelina Kendall, Awar Odhiang, Ella McCutcheon, Ajus Samuel, Fei Fei Sun, Alex Consani, Lulu Tenney & Jill Kortleve


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[THD96]

The Chanel advert and Mikael and Amanda editorials are the only saving graces of this issue.

 

[crmsn]

Liftoff
Photo Annie Leibovitz
Editor Eric McNeal
Text Matie Kahn
Subject Timothée Chalamiet
Grooming Pricilla Pae


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While the digital edition has a corrected version of it, Timothee’s first editorial photo in the print edition still shows rough color work with uneven tones and visible pixels. 👀

And based on Vogue's podcast with Chloe Malle, this issue is indeed Annie’s last one as their editor-in-chief.


0:43 to 1:02

 

[MModa]

While the digital edition has a corrected version of it, Timothee’s first editorial photo in the print edition still shows rough color work with uneven tones and visible pixels. 👀

And based on Vogue's podcast with Chloe Malle, this issue is indeed Annie’s last one as their editor-in-chief.


0:43 to 1:02

The first editorial photo in my print edition is not showing "rough color work with uneven tones and visible pixels." It might be a printing issue in certain editions.