Anna Wintour sure does mean business when welcoming back old favorites onto the cover of Vogue. The editor who has served as the magazine’s figurehead since 1988 has brought back the likes of Jill Biden, Kendall Jenner, Zendaya and Blake Lively as Vogue cover stars over recent months,. Now, Wintour reinstates Lady Gaga as the American fashion bible’s cover star for October 2024. Precisely six years after her last, the American singer-songwriter and actress (who showed up to the 2024 Venice Film Festival in a voluminous Christian Dior gown and Philip Treacy headpiece) poses for Ethan James Green. Across a pair of dynamic covers, the Joker: Folie à Deux actress is styled by Alex Jordan Harrington. In cover one (below), Gaga wears a Balenciaga coat from the Fall 2024 Haute Couture collection. In the second, full-length alternative cover, Gaga strikes a pose in a look from Maison Margiela Artisanal designed by John Galliano.
Read below the reactions of theFashionSpot’s forum members:
“Oh this is fantastic! Feels like a proper fashion shoot. US Vogue have been so hit and miss with Lady Gaga over the years, but this is perfection. Love the full body cover,” enthused LastNight.
“I love the covers, especially the full-length cover. It’s Gaga’s best editorial for American Vogue,” applauded forum member jeje10.
“Not even sure why that first cover even made it to print, when that second full-length cover is far more superior,” said vogue28. “Absolutely love it, and love the fact Ethan James Green was commissioned to photograph Lady Gaga. This feels very… fashion and so perfectly executed. I’m a fan!”
Not everyone, however, was convinced. “How dour and depressing. I get that this is promo for her role as Harley Quinn, but damn. Fried hair and running mascara on the cover of US Vogue?” asked WinstonH20.
“It’s lacking… something,” confessed aracic. “I can’t put my finger on it. I like the idea, but something is taking me out of the fantasy.”
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