September issues are always hyped with each glossy attempting to do something really dramatic, creative, or out-of-the-box. This year Vogue Italy outshines the pack with a mammoth 100 covers of people different in age, ethnicity, profession, life. Without hierarchies and without filters, in the name of diversity, beauty, hope.
The extraordinary project which was conceived by Ferdinando Verderi, Vogue Italia's creative director, and lensed by Mark Borthwick features celebrated Models, activists, writers, photographers, artists, and ordinary women all of whom are special with a unique story to tell.
Noteworthy names include iconic supermodels Cindy Crawford, Pat Cleveland, Patti Hansen, Donna Jordan. Current top models Kaia Gerber, Bella Hadid, Julia Nobis, Freja Beha Erichsen, Sasha Pivovarova, Irina Shayk, Alek Wek, Raquel Zimmermann, Saskia De Brauw, Rebecca Longendyke. Social personalities such as Actress Chloe Sevigny, Emily Ratajkowski, and Paloma Elsesser. Nonbinary, genderless and transgender models such as Indya Moore, Juno Mitchell, and Cici Tamez. Last but not least Ordinary women like Uber driver Debra Solomon, and softball player Jade Meehan and many more.
'We wanted to challenge the standards of quantity with which fashion has always measured itself, to express a desire for rebirth and to celebrate diversity and uniqueness in a way that becomes a collective experience. We photographed the 100 cover stars individually in a studio in New York. The photographer Mark Borthwick is one of the long-standing contributors to Vogue Italia who returns to the pages of the magazine after decades. The cast brings together, side by side, 100 people from a wide range of fields based in NYC. We asked each one of them to tell us their life story in a one-minute video. The result is a highly significant document, testifying to a unique moment in time,' Verderi said in a statement.
Check out the gallery of 100 covers of Vogue Italia's September issue here
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