Vogue France

August 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 unless she got one. The cover photographer is less widely recorded than the story behind it, but this is the issue to remember when asking who has the power to change a newsstand: here it was an advertiser.