Model of the Moment Gigi Hadid has officially reached #SupermodelStatus with her latest feature in Vogue – and it’s not just ANY editorial.
Gigi pays homage to Anna Wintour’s first 1988 Vogue cover featuring the stunning Israeli model Michaela Bercu, shot by Peter Lindbergh & styled by Carlyne Cerf De Dudzeele. Hadid has similarities to then model Michaela – from her natural beauty to long mermaid locks. Talk about a perfect #TBT.
Interestingly enough – the O.G. 1988 Vogue cover was SO natural looking the magazine’s printers actually called up Anna Wintour to double check it wasn’t a mistake!
In an interview, the IMG Model says: “Since the day I started, I’ve been very happy with my body. I never felt the need to change for the industry; [her agents at] IMG know I don’t want to be two pounds soaking wet.”
Gigi’s shot is photographed by Sean Thomas, wearing a customized A.L.C. Covington Sweater paired with GUESS jeans – styled by fashion editor Jordan Bickham.
Homegirls’ career has sky rocketed from cover CR Fashion Book, W Magazine, featured in SI Swimsuit issue, starring in top campaigns for Tom Ford & GUESS, and now appearing in the Pirelli Calendar.
In a blast from the past – Anna Wintour reminisces about the ’88 cover & the start to her iconic career:
“It was November 1988, and starred the gorgeous Israeli model Michaela Bercu, photographed by Peter Lindbergh and styled by Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele. Michaela was wearing an haute couture Christian Lacroix jacket with a beaded cross, all very ‘Like a Prayer,’ and stonewashed Guess jeans. The jacket was actually part of a suit, but the skirt didn’t fit Michaela; she had been on vacation back home in Israel and had gained a little weight. Not that that mattered. In fact, it only served to reinforce the idea to take couture’s haughty grandeur and playfully throw it headlong into real life and see what happened.
“What none of us expected was to run that picture on the cover, least of all the magazine’s printers, who called up and asked with some consternation, ‘Has there been a mistake?’ I couldn’t blame them. It was so unlike the studied and elegant close-ups that were typical of Vogue’s covers back then, with tons of makeup and major jewelry. This one broke all the rules. Michaela wasn’t looking at you, and worse, she had her eyes almost closed. Her hair was blowing across her face. It looked easy, casual, a moment that had been snapped on the street, which it had been, and which was the whole point. Afterwards, in the way that these things can happen, people applied all sorts of interpretations: It was about mixing high and low, Michaela was pregnant, it was a religious statement. But none of these things was true. I had just looked at that picture and sensed the winds of change. And you can’t ask for more from a cover image than that.”
— Anna Wintour on her first issue of Vogue
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love that vogue cover..gorg sweater too..xoxoxoxox
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