Despite the rending of garments and wild howls of outrage from Twitter, the April issue of Vogue, starring Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, isn't merely doing OK. It's reportedly selling marvelously and will likely beat Michelle Obama's cover. Sorry, Sarah Michelle Gellar.
If you flip through April's "Shape" issue of Vogue—a.k.a. the KIMYE edition—you'll find a piece titled "Headlines and Hemlines" (which isn't available on the website). The subtitle: "In 1954, the great American reporter Dorothy Thompson challenged the fashion world to find a working wardrobe for a busy size 20 journalist."
Today in "Vogue, noooooo," British Vogue is urging Orange Is The New Black fans to purchase conceptual prison-inspired designer garments. The three recommended items add up to about $1500. So chic!
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Apologies to anyone who has been moaning along with the "Vogue is dead" dirge, but it looks as though Kimye's appearance on the cover of the fashion magazine is not the portent of end times, after all. As a matter of fact, it was a major get — according to a source, both Harper's Bazaar and Vanity Fair wanted the…
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Hey Internet. I think we need to talk about what's been happening since it was announced on Friday that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West finally got their much coveted Vogue cover.
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The Kimye Vogue cover we, as a nation, always deserved is finally upon us. In this week following its arrival we're getting treated to a bevy of beauteous gems: several media studies theses have already starting writing themselves because of this photo of Kanye taking a photo of Kim taking a photo of herself in a…
Shouldn't…shouldn't Kanye be in the mirror? pic.twitter.com/ufjPLz5sFQ
— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) March 24, 2014
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Prepare yourselves, because the Kimye Vogue cover parodies are coming. The muppets have already thrown down the gauntlet and now James Franco and Seth Rogen have taken up the challenge of becoming the world's most talked-about couple.
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Responding to gleeful internet speculation that Kanye West whined his way on to the cover of Vogue, Anna Wintour explained (with flawless imperiousness) that it was "entirely our idea" and she can NOT BE BULLIED. So don't get any ideas.
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Well, now she's legit.
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Alexandra Shulman, the editor of British Vogue, is so bored of people asking her why models are unrealistically thin.
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I want to believe that the idea to run a slideshow of cats wearing, sitting on, or otherwise being around shoes was Grace Coddington's idea because it is both awesome and fairly incomprehensible at the same time. Why cats? Why shoes? How much photoshop went into making these cats look this amazing in print? How can I…
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Since 2010, women have been accusing photographer Terry Richardson of inappropriate behavior on the set of photo shoots. But many publications have hired Richardson — repeatedly — since the allegations surfaced.
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Rihanna's third Vogue cover is out today, and it's — of course — beautiful. The accompanying story, not so much.
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A Instagram account maintained by a Rihanna fan posted this "leaked" cover of Rihanna on the cover of the March issue of Vogue.
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Score one for Kanye West. You may have been following the slew of rumors that Yeezus has been begging Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour to put his fiancée, Kim Kardashian, on the cover of the esteemed publication. It's unclear whether or not he actually groveled or if Nuclear Wintour just thawed to (or was already open …
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Earlier today we revealed what Lena Dunham's Vogue shoot looked like before they unleashed the Photoshop, and now she's responded.
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Lena Dunham and her fans, ourselves included, love her just the way she is. Vogue's opinion, of course, is another matter.
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Vogue just released its February issue starring none other than Lena Dunham. The images are, all in all, quite nice. She's well-styled and looks fantastic. As if Vogue would have it any other way.
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Dubbing her "The New Queen of Comedy," Vogue has put Lena Dunham on the cover of their February cover, as has been speculated for some time now. Actually, according to the cover, they've dubbed her "HEY, GIRL: LENA DUNHAM: The New Queen of Comedy. " Okay.