Items23The creator’s order
  1. 1Harper's BazaarHarper's BazaarApril 1965: Jean Shrimpton, photographed by Richard Avedon Avedon guest-edited this issue to mark twenty years at the magazine, and the cover shows how far a fashion front could stray from a polite portrait. Shrimpton peers out from a pink space helmet while the masthead vibrates in acid green, a…0
  2. 2British VogueBritish VogueMarch 1966: Donyale Luna, photographed by David Bailey The first Black model on the cover of British Vogue, eight years before American Vogue followed. Bailey's image partly obscures Luna's face, which makes the cover feel mysterious rather than a straightforward portrait, and the editor Beatrix…0
  3. 3Glamour (magazine)Glamour (magazine)August 1968: Katiti Kironde, college issue A Harvard freshman who won the magazine's Top Ten Best Dressed College Girls contest became Glamour's first African American cover girl. The sales answered anyone who claimed readers would not buy it: the issue broke the magazine's previous sales records.…0
  4. 4Essence (magazine)Essence (magazine)May 1970: Barbara Cheeseborough, first issue Rather than waiting for the established titles to change, Essence launched as a magazine for Black women and put the model Barbara Cheeseborough on its very first cover. The face on that debut told readers who the magazine was for and what it…0
  5. 5Vogue (magazine)Vogue (magazine)August 1974: Beverly Johnson, photographed by Francesco Scavullo The first Black woman on the cover of American Vogue, eight years after Donyale Luna fronted the British edition. Johnson's agent at the time doubted it would ever happen; she moved to Wilhelmina Cooper's agency, which pushed…0
  6. 6Vogue FranceVogue FranceAugust 1988: Naomi Campbell The first Black model on the cover of Vogue Paris, and the push came from a designer rather than the magazine. Campbell has said she was refused when she asked for a cover like the other models, and Yves Saint Laurent reportedly threatened to withdraw his advertising…0
  7. 7Vogue (magazine)Vogue (magazine)November 1988: Michaela Bercu, photographed by Peter Lindbergh Anna Wintour's first cover as editor, and the first Vogue cover to show a pair of jeans. Bercu, shot outdoors with her hair blowing and her eyes off camera, wears a jeweled Christian Lacroix couture jacket with stonewashed Guess jeans.…0
  8. 8British VogueBritish VogueJanuary 1990: Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford, photographed by Peter Lindbergh The black-and-white group shot on a New York street is often treated as the start of the supermodel era. The editor Liz Tilberis wanted a cover that looked ahead…0
  9. 9The Face (magazine)The Face (magazine)July 1990: Kate Moss, photographed by Corinne Day The Third Summer of Love cover made a teenage unknown and a young photographer the faces of a new look. Shot on the beach at Camber Sands, with Moss wearing no makeup and a feathered headdress, it was raw where the supermodel covers were polished,…0
  10. 10Harper's BazaarHarper's BazaarSeptember 1992: Linda Evangelista, photographed by Patrick Demarchelier Liz Tilberis's first issue as editor relaunched an American title with a single coverline: Enter the Era of Elegance. Evangelista, in black, raises one hand as if lifting a letter of the masthead into place, so the model and…0