For Vogue‘s Olympics-themed issue, Anna and the gang tapped some of Team USA’s most photogenic athletes; soccer player Hope Solo, swimmer Ryan Lochte, and Serena Williams, photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
It seems Anna Wintour is sticking to her commitment to eschewing impossibly thin models and showing a more diverse range of bodies in the Fashion Bible. Williams and Solo don’t exactly have the long, slender limbs and slight frames we’re used to seeing in Vogue. While I would have liked the cover to have a more high fashion feel, it is an Olympic-themed shoot, so the sporty vibe is appropriate, and the cover models are a welcome change from the usual (monotonous) cycle of starlets Vogue tends to feature.
What do you think of the cover?
~Jihan
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May 14, 2012 12:23 pm
Feel like I’m looking at a baywatch commercial or something. Nonetheless, go TEAMUSA! lol
May 14, 2012 12:34 pm
Their heads don’t match their bodies..lol #TeamUSA
May 14, 2012 12:35 pm
Team USA looks ready to compete. AMERICA!
May 14, 2012 12:36 pm
Well there goes Serena’s hips…
May 14, 2012 12:38 pm
Airbrush much??
May 14, 2012 12:50 pm
Photoshop is a lil off..but i like it overall
May 14, 2012 1:03 pm
they should have just left Serena out of this shoot … her head look like …. nvm its just terrible
May 14, 2012 1:25 pm
What did they do to Serena’s body?? She just doesn’t look too right here.
May 14, 2012 3:28 pm
This cover is bad and the heavy-handing air brushing isn’t helping.
May 14, 2012 3:53 pm
It looks like they just put Serena’s head on someone else body.
May 14, 2012 4:40 pm
They airbrushed the crap out of Serena’s body. Why though? I’m happy to see some change for once, but they didn’t have to do so much airbrushing. I guess we have to take what we can get.
May 14, 2012 4:59 pm
what happened to Serenas body O_o
None of their heads match their bodies and all their faces look force!!
Nonetheless Go TEAMUSA!!
May 14, 2012 5:24 pm
They were so busy airbushing Serena,they forgot to hit that other chicks tits… one looks flat and the other looks like the air is leaking out.
May 14, 2012 5:40 pm
Kinda crazy looking cover. Anwy; GO TEAM UK! HA!
May 14, 2012 6:10 pm
Did they cut off part of and photoshop Serena’s hips and thighs? Nope I’m not compelled to buy the issue.
May 14, 2012 7:03 pm
Yeah… Serena looks way more slimmed down than usual. Plus the cover is showing more of Hope’s figure than Serena’s.
Ehhhhhhhhh.
May 14, 2012 7:56 pm
As if I needed another reason not to purchase Vogue. It’s shameful the way they’ve airbrushed Serena’s body.
May 14, 2012 9:29 pm
wow, one of the worst magazine covers Ive ever seen. smh
May 14, 2012 10:07 pm
Annie Leibovitz is the worst! The juxtaposition of all of her work is so AWFUL! Why is Serena falling off of the page while the white woman’s entire body is shown. Was it that hard to center the three of them?
May 15, 2012 4:50 pm
This is so not Hope Solo’s real body! Her waistline does not look like that at all!
May 17, 2012 11:54 am
Airbrush? Yeah, I guess. More like “hmmm…I’ll chop his and her and her heads and stick’em over on these bods (hope my creative director doesn’t notice!” Talk about amateur.
July 22, 2012 11:58 am
Ohhh myyy gawwk,… HE IS BEAUTIFUL,…*dreamy eyes* I hope he’ll do well in LONDON,…mmhmm