W Magazine : The 2008 Covers

[tarsha]

wmagazine.com

 

[surrealseven]

No matter what is it, Kate Hudson's cover is the most striking, though the controversy surrounding it

 

[thiago:)]

Summer Camp B) July for me.
I do also like Charlize and Penélope.

 

[Bengt]

March for me...

 

[AnaBGD]

I voted July, but February and August are great too.

 

[elle_gb]

I voted for Anne Hathaway she looks sophisticated, very classy eventhough i love Kate, Lara and daria too but i have to go with Anne

 

[enVogue]

Definitely Kate's cover

 

[vogue28]

I lover March, April & July.
But Kate Hudson's September cover got my vote. So striking.

 

[mikel]

I voted for Daria, Kate and Lara.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

^^Me too, god i cant get over how bad Scarlett looks on that cover, lol.

This was an awful year for W covers!

 

[Flashbang]

Miss Cruz...i guess...

 

[Filipe]

Voted for the July cover, best of all with no doubt!

 

[tarsha]

June. Charlize

 

[_rumc_]

Summer Camp and Penelope

 

[Mchunu]

don't really love any of them..but Anne Hathaway's cover gets my vote. Natalie's & Scarlett's was very nice too but Scarlett kind of ruins it.

 

[hfgl]

Penelope,Summer Camp close behind

 

[duynk88]

I love the Anne cover. She looks gorgeous.

 

[CharmingNicky]

Voted for August March is a very close second..

 

[*ana*]

summer camp. i love april and august, too.

 

[tigerrouge]

Looking at all the 2008 covers together makes me realise I didn't buy any of them. They're not awful covers by any means, but nothing really appealed in a 'must-buy-this' way, and some months were too thin and contentless to acquire.

The 'Summer Camp' cover was probably the 'best' in terms of doing something only W does - combining hot models in an unexpected cover shot, yet I don't find it at all interesting. And to me, that's the problem with W in 2008. They're not really doing anything that wrong with those covers, yet they're somehow lacklustre. I'm going to go for Kate Moss, because I like her face in that cover.

Christy's Jan 2009 cover excites me more than any of the above. Well, I hope that's a good omen for the twelve months ahead.

The more I look at the covers, the more I dislike that same-same-same column of text they use on the left-hand side. It's like a big boring block of words, and if you obscure it with a finger and imagine it's not there, the images become much more interesting (notice that 'Summer Camp' doesn't have the word-pillar). There must be some way of playing with that, to revamp their cover look.