The vacation season is simply across the nook, and glitz, glamour, sparkle and unapologetic splendor should be all the fad. Feeling festive, we’re reflecting again to unwrap the highest 5 most festive style journal covers of all time – from spectacular cowl pictures lensed by grasp photographer Steven Meisel to uncovering a forgotten favourite deep inside the Harper’s Bazaar archives.
Scroll additional for theFashionSpot’s picks of essentially the most festive and most dazzling journal covers which have ever graced the newsstand:
#5 Vogue Italia December 2004 with Karen Elson by Steven Meisel:
Whereas this cowl could not precisely scream Christmas from the treetops, there’s no denying the duvet shot oozes a sure vacation high quality. Karen Elson posed for Steven Meisel and the duo achieved a romantically darkish but glamorous temper, as if Karen has simply returned dwelling from a superb New 12 months’s celebration and now sits alone reflecting on the good-looking stranger she met. Meisel shot the redheaded British magnificence sporting a black velvet Ralph Lauren robe, with Karen’s hair usual into old-Hollywood waves including drama and appeal to Italian Vogue‘s December 2024 cowl.
#four UK Vogue December 2007 with Sienna Miller by Nick Knight:
Nick Knight has created some overwhelmingly beautiful British Vogue covers – most turning into immediately iconic. The journal’s December 2007 cowl will not be deemed iconic as of but, however we definitely bear in mind this specific cowl shining vivid like a diamond on the newsstand throughout the festive interval of 2007. Sienna Miller showcased a shocking metallic robe by Dolce & Gabbana, wanting prepared for the celebration season forward, posing alongside a unusual prop. The silver metallic fonts added pizazz as soon as considered in actual life and we’ll be searching out our copies immediately to get us within the festive spirit!
#three Vogue Paris December 2001/January 2002 with Kate Moss by Mario Testino:
This cowl simply screams Christmas from the onset. Kate Moss graced the final double-issue of 2001 for French Vogue with Mario Testino capturing everybody’s favourite British supermodel with a set of vacation fairy lights wrapped round her head – with fantastic outcomes! The cowl, in concept, sounds relatively tacky (however aren’t holidays speculated to be tacky?) but Testino, Carine Roitfeld and Kate pulled the idea off completely. Holidays however make it style and we 100% approve.
#2 Vogue Russia December 2008 with Naomi Campbell by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott:
One more cowl that screams of the vacation season, though the December 2008 cowl of Vogue Russia took a extra luxurious method this time round. The journal tapped Naomi Campbell as its cowl topic and bought inventive twosome Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott to {photograph} the sitting, opting to shoot Naomi draped in an opulent white fur that cascaded round her structured face as she gazed down M&M’s lens. With a minimal quantity of textual content and a refined pink masthead, we’d say this cowl is just about proper on the cash for December.
#1 Harper’s Bazaar December 1992 with Kate Moss by Patrick Demarchelier:
A golden oldie, a forgotten favourite and a transparent winner. Kate Moss wows us on the December 1992 subject of American Harper’s Bazaar. Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, a then 18-year-old Kate posed sporting an extravagant pink Christian Dior high fashion robe, hair and make-up executed to the nines, whereas holding a Christmas snow globe. Easy, efficient and utterly understated, we ask the present crew of Bazaar to please take observe. That is how a festive style journal cowl is actually executed!
This text first appeared on theFashionSpot December 18, 2014.