Photos: The Gang s All Here: 7 Iconic Group Model Vogue Covers
A look at Vogue’s models covers and the central importance of the mannequin to fashion.
Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, May 1, 19471/8May 1, 1947
Irving Penn first met Lisa Fonssagrives, who would become his wife, when shooting “12 Beauties: The most photographed models in America,” for Vogue. “They represent an Omnibus of Beauty,” wrote the magazine, “current replacement of Ziegfeld and Gibson Girl legends.” While the image didn’t cover the magazine, it certainly was an early precursor to the age of the supermodel.
From left, seated: Marilyn Ambrose, Dana Jenney; standing, left to right: Meg Mundy, Helen Bennett, Lisa Fonssagrives; background: Betty McLauchlen; foreground: Dorian Leigh; seated: Andrea Johnson; standing, left to right: Lily Carlson, Elizabeth Gibbons, Kay Hernan; background: Muriel Maxwell
Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, Vogue, April 19922/8April 1992
_Vogue’_s 100th Anniversary Special featured 10 tops. “Then, casual sportswear was all the rage,” the magazine’s editor, Anna Wintour, would later write, “so our ten ‘supermodels’ sported white shirts and jeans.”
Clockwise from top: Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Karen Mulder, Elaine Irwin, Niki Taylor, Yasmeen Ghauri, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, and, center, Tatjana Patitz
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, November 19993/8November 1999
_Vogue’_s millennium cover featured models, explained Anna Wintour, “for the simple reason that they have personified this magazine for more than a century.”
From left to right: Kate Moss, Gisele Bündchen, Lauren Hutton, Iman, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Amber Valletta, Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer, Lisa Taylor, Paulina Porizkova, Carolyn Murphy, Patti Hansen
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, November 20004/8November 2000
“Fashion needs its homegrown celebrities; what would our history be without Twiggy or Linda Evangelista?,” noted _Vogue’_s Anna Wintour. Each of these cover girls was a nominee for the VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards Model of the Year.
Clockwise from left: (winner) Carmen Kass, Angela Lindvall, Maggie Rizer, Frankie Rayder
Photographed by Steven Meisel, Vogue, September 2004 Natalia Vodianova represented by DNA Model Management New York.5/8September 2004
“We have devoted the cover of our biggest fashion issue ever to nine girls who represent the future of the business,” wrote Anna Wintour in her “Editor’s Letter.” “We feature such photographs very rarely," she explained, “and only in order to mark what seems to us a significant cultural shift (our last was the millennium issue.) What’s changing now—and here, as so often, fashion is the first to register the tremors—is that our appreciation of fame is being revised.”
From left: Daria Werbowy, Natalia Vodianova, Gisele Bündchen, Isabeli Fontana, Karolina Kurkova, Liya Kebede, Hana Soukupova, Gemma Ward, Karen Elson