I think the French just need everything to be sexy. Doesn't matter who or what.

Mama looks good in the v-neck!

But I kinda don't like seeing anyone's Vadge shots on magazine covers.

That heel's gonna leave a mark!

I for one think the Vogue cover is wayyy more interesting than the Bazaar cover, regardless of the crotch shot.

I think she looks lovely in both. But I'm not sure that French Vogue cover would fly over here... it's just too trashy-looking for mainstream US magazines.

The sexy one doesn't seem that sexy, maybe it's the face...

@beastybeatsy: Agreed. Looks more scared and a little angry

Well, goddamn, Julianne. I like that you can see her arm freckles in the second picture, even if her face is bleached out.

What's with the double nose and chin smudges? I thought it was my filthy computer screen but they stay fixed to her face as I scroll.

Or do the French have more sense than to put partially-clad pics of underage tween sensations on their magazine covers?
I do however think she looks amazing on both covers.

All I know is that my life is the poorer for not owning leopard-print underwear.

The blue cover would not go over well in the States.

Her freckles would have to be digitally removed first.

Damn, French Vogue, FTW. Sersly, why is American Vogue always a suckfest, cover wise, and FV nailed it with Kate Moss last month, and now this.

That Vogue cover is AMAZING...that choker she's wearing...or whatever it is...MUST. HAVE.

I think everything is sexier in Europe. There's not that subversive puritanical streak that underlies everything in the States.

I don't like either, frankly. A happy medium would be nice.

Also, I agree that the French cover would not fly here. Some Walmart in the Bible Belt would refuse to stock it or put it in opaque covers like Playboys...or maybe just stock them all backwards on their shelves.

The French Vogue is so awkward and umcomfortable looking--like she's scared and about to leap out of the chair but is still cross legged. I don't know if they posed her like that to make her look thinner but her arms and legs just look odd.

I'm 25 and my boobs don't look that good without a bra.

MAI COUGR DEN. LET ME SHOW U IT.

Almost the exact same pose as Madonna's Hard Candy, yet without that same hard-edged cougarishness. Ms. Moore is The Queen.

She is a sexy, sexy woman... but I don't need to see her done up like a 15-year-old Bulgarian model. Not that I find her Andie McDowellization very interesting, either.

jezebel posted about the french elle cover of emmanuelle beart (she was 40, nude and no skinny minnie) and according to wiki: "as of 2007, it is still the magazine's biggest-selling issue ever."

i don't know, there's just a difference aethestic in french fashion mags. you don't necessarily have to be perfect teeth, size zero body, and have plastic boobies to be hott.

also, i love that EVERYBODY hits on you there. it's certainly good for my ego! ok, sometimes the guys are crazy and smell, but whatevs.

I'm kinda in love with Julianne Moore. And by "in love" I mean, I want to be/look like her. I think she is one of the most naturally gorgeous women on the planet. And I also think we'd be best friends. Oh, and her kids are gorge...blah blah blah - I love her.

I think it may have more to do with Harper's Bazaar vs. Vogue in general...Isn't Harper's Bazar less racy? And especially less racy than French Vogue?

Maybe the French just like pictures of scantily clad women who look like they are about to spring out of that chair and stab you with the pointy heel of their shoe.

Rowrrr French Vogue...Looks like Julianne should be holding court in "The Cougar's Den"

I'd rather not see anyone's crotch regardless of age thanks.

That Paris cover is pretty much the 15 year-old's view of sexy. She looks like a 9th grader trying to seduce her dumbass boyfriend using "sexy" ideas she picked up from Rock of Love 2.

Hn. If it was a youngyoungyoung girl, we'd say that on the left, she is being sexualized entirely too early, and we would also consider the cover to be, well, kind of sexist.

However, because of her age, we consider the picture to be...sensual.

I'm not sure if that sort of thinking is right or wrong...

well, if we consider it to be sensual in the first place, that is***

Americans like to deny the existence of blatant crotch on our esteemed womens magazine covers. Besides this week would have been a bad week after all the Miley stuff how much can the soccer moms take??

The Vogue cover is very "Bowie's In Space".

Also, I feel like I've seen that Harper's Bazaar cover ten thousand times.

I mean, I used to work in a bookstore stocking magazines, so I've seen my fair share of magazine covers. But seeing that one gives me crazy deja vu.

hmmm...i just got my bazaar (subscription)and it is all blue....a full length pic of her in a long blue armani prive gown---fantastic shot.

I think her flowing red hair and smirky half smile on the Bazaar cover is pretty sexy. I wish I could pull that off now-- and I'm 15 years younger than the stunning Ms.Moore.

That French Vogue cover... my mouth's hanging open and I might be drooling. White hot.

I really wish that American magazines would stop advertising their innards on the cover. I mean, I know I want to know what's inside before a I buy it, but can't you just flip through it in the check-out or something? I feel like it makes the magazine look so cheap.

@femminista: What's H.B. like compared to Vogue in the US? In the UK French Vogue always seems sexier, that might just be me.

I can get hold of European magazines more easily than US ones (importing them seems to make the price quadruple)

I'm just going to be mad for the rest of the day because Julianne Moore is now an "older woman."
Such as.

The Vogue cover to me is complete over-the-top vamp: hence I love it. Also, if the covers of FHM and MAXIM regularly pass muster, why wouldn't this?

Well American mags, even Vogue, are much more in the business of celebrity, and promoting movies/albums, while French Vogue is definitely more about fashion. Also, Ms. Roitfeld likes everyone to be thin, smoking (literally and metaphorically) and somehow "edgy."

Ah, what a great way to wake up. A shot of Julianne Moore's eggs.

she is both beautiful and fierce and on of the biggest reasons i constantly flirt with the idea of dying my hair red.

Mon complexe de la vergin et la whore -- laizzeh-moi show u eet.

@Charlotte Corday, Miss Stabby Stabby 1793: See, I just thought the french like the skinny, uber fashionable, cigarette look

@tashatakeadive: sorry, but that comment just seems a touch infantile. or is it puritan?

@Dear Blond Diary...: i'm looking for the emmanuelle beart cover as we speak!

@beastybeatsy: Yeah, it looks as if she sat on something sharp. Like the heel of her left shoe.

OMG HEEL POKING THIGH. OWIE OWIE. OW.

That's ALL I can see.

Sometimes I forget I'm wearing heels and I slouch around and cross my legs like that to sit down on my bed or whatever. And I invariably scrape myself or give myself puncture wounds.

QUEL DOMMAGE. Ow.

@Charlotte Corday, Miss Stabby Stabby 1793: I mean... to be fair, she was pretty skinny. I guess she has a curvy butt on her, but it's nice, and her arms are tiny and her boobies are perky. I'm an average sized person and I would kill to have that body.

It's very sexy the way the heal of her shoe indents her thigh. Those French sure no how to sell it.

@ferociacoutura: julianne or emmaunuelle? i's confoosed.

All she needs is knee high tube socks and the French Vogue cover is an American Apparel ad. Thick black glasses wouldn't hurt, either.

Is her shirt wet or is it some sort of tie-die effect?

While she is in fact beautiful- and look stunning on the French cover- she looks as though she is in the midst of a coke-fueled nightmare.

@tashatakeadive: Is that what the kids are calling "breasts" now?

I love her. Love, love, love her.

"Did you think this was all fun and games?"

"Now you must really shut the fuck up!"

Love. Her.

Love French Vogue, too. The Bazaar cover, not so much... doesn't let enough awesomeness shine through!!

I like the outfit and pose on the French one, but dislike the hair. She has such lovely locks, why hide them away? Also she looks sort of terrified.

@and Begorrah: Ha!

Fuck matching your belt to your shoes, from now on I'm matching my belt to my underwear just like Ms.Moore there.

I think she's all around gorgeous but the Harper's cover looks like an ad for hair dye.

@BAngieB: You know, I sort of think we should own and rock "older woman". I mean, yeah, the lady is 40... she's OLDER than most ladies (if, you know, average liefspan is 78 or whatever)... I love it. Older women, rock on! Own it, love it.

Think TOWANDA!! ("...and I have more insurance.")

@Patsy_Stone: Certainly makes me pull that face.

This is not a question of whether French women are more likely to see sex appeal of an "older" woman.

It's simply a fact that American mags put a giant headshot on their covers and French mags usually use a full body shot.

And the American mags are usually fresh and pretty while the French ones are dirty sexy.

She's on the cover of Domino too. OBVIOUSLY THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE.

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Whether or not she has the bod to carry it off, which she does, I don't see why an elegant, intelligent, talented woman of Julianne Moore's calibre should need to stoop to polyester leopard granny panties to "look hot". That entire outfit says "cheap'n'desperate cougar" to me, and I don't care whether it is in fact designer gear that would cost more than my yearly rent.

@braak -- yeah. Uber-generico, the Bazaar.

Older woman my ass. I'm 24, and would so go lezebel for Julianne Moore.