I understand and respect the direction. Truth is, any "business as usual" cover would've felt extremely distasteful to the current situation in Italy. The magazine had to present something that was in touch with reality, something at the very least respectful. Right now, fashion and luxury and many other things in the world are irrelevant and unnecessary. Hopefully soon enough we'll be able to look at them differently, we'll ve able live a little frivolously. But not right now.
For any editor, these are really crazy times and one has to be thoughtful about what to do next. He was in a particularly tough spot, so I don't fault him at all for this.