Steven Meisel will always and forever be synonymous with Vogue Italia. After all, since shooting his very first cover for the Italian fashion bible for the July/August issue of 1988 (under the late great Franca Sozzani), a whole plethora of covers are now deemed iconic. Now under the control of Francesca Ragazzi, Meisel was welcomed back to capture the magazine’s 60th anniversary covers for September and is back once again for November 2024. The legendary American lensman points his lens toward Lana Del Rey, who makes her debut Vogue Italia appearance for the occasion, complete with styling from Karl Templer and a look from Miu Miu. The newlywed American singer-songwriter is all smiles in the joyous cover image, looking the picture of happiness as she gazes down Meisel’s masterful lens.

The November 2024 Cover of Vogue Italia with Lana Del Rey by Steven Meisel:

Read below the reactions of theFashionSpot’s forum members:

“YES!” immediately enthused prylvi upon checking out the cover.

“BIG YES!” chimed in forum member RMDV.

“I never thought I’d see the day when Lana Del Rey gets a good Vogue cover! Finally,” applauded gunsnroses.

ReneSanchez approved: “This is so good. Lana fits so well with this aesthetic. I love the styling, the smile, and the fact it’s by Steven Meisel!”

“What a cover! What a surprise! I am living for this right now. Absolutely flawless cover shot from Steven Meisel, as per usual. I love the head square, the makeup, the composition, the infectious and energetic smile from Lana, and how monochromatic it is,” admired vogue28.

Kokobombon shared the same sentiments. “Typical Meisel. This is the best Lana Del Rey has ever looked IMO,” they praised.

“A tear may have formed in my eye at the sight of this unexpected collaboration. It’s beautiful, it’s timeless, it’s a perfect combination of both artists and I can’t wait to get my hands on this!” shared aracic.

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Given the firm exception of the September issue celebrating the magazine’s monumental 60th anniversary, Vogue Italia has been a hard pass throughout 2024. Not even covers starring the next generation of models, Bella Hadid, Irina Shayk, Bad Bunny, and Karen Elson have managed to impress. Italian Vogue‘s Head of Editorial Content Francesca Ragazzi invites Monica Bellucci onto Vogue Italia for October 2024, who returns to the front cover following an appearance (alongside daughter Deva Cassel) in July 2021. To commemorate turning 60, the iconic Italian actress poses for partner Tim Burton. The pair took to the unique Sacred Bosco di Bomarzo in northern Lazio, Italy for the occasion. In the cover shot, Bellucci dons a custom Ferragamo creation and Cartier jewelry.

The October 2024 Cover of Vogue Italia with Monica Bellucci:

Read below the reactions of theFashionSpot’s forum members:

“Monica Bellucci: yasssss. This cover: no for me,” Chipmetrai commented the moment the cover struck.

“Love Monica Bellucci, but no,” echoed mepps.

“Take the cameras away from these directors,” exclaimed blueorchid.

Crmsm commented: “My takeaway from this is that Tim Burton is a great movie director and he should stick to it!”

Avonlea002 shared the same sentiments. “I was expecting something more than bland photography from a director whose films are so stylized. It’s a wasted opportunity,” they voiced.

“What a letdown,” sighed forum member phungnam96.

“Vogue Italia made history by managing to make Monica Bellucci look bad,” Urban Stylin declared.

“I’m only able to echo everyone else’s sentiments regarding how much of a major letdown this is. A totally wasted opportunity indeed, and pales massively in stark comparison to Deva Cassel’s cover from Steven Meisel last month,” chimed in vogue28.

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Ever since the late great Franca Sozzani took up the mantle of Vogue Italia back in 1988, the magazine has been synonymous with Steven Meisel. To celebrate the magazine’s monumental 60th anniversary with the release of the September 2024 issue, Italian Vogue’s current leader Francesca Ragazzi brilliantly brings back Meisel for a series of commemorative, celebratory and highly-collectible covers. Ragazzi called upon none other than Linda Evangelista, Vittoria Ceretti, Deva Cassel, Isabella Rossellini, Mariacarla Boscono and Maty Fall as cover stars for the occasion. The iconic lineup each pose for Meisel in their respective portrait cover shots, compete with styling from Joe McKenna who opted for looks from Gucci, Miu Miu, Giorgio Armani, Bottega Veneta, Prada and Loro Piana.

Read below the reactions of theFashionSpot’s forum members:

“Fantastic colors for fall and a fantastic cast for the anniversary. I’m very pleased with the outcome. It feels like an event worthy of the 60th anniversary,” applauded aracic instantly.

“Great choices to celebrate 60 years of Italian Vogue,” enthused Starry.

“Stunning covers! This is how you do it!” raved forum member clo.

Sharing the same level of enthusiasm toward the outcome was lanvinray. “Absolutely thrilled to see Meisel back at Vogue Italia,” they wrote.

“Beautiful covers! Such a joy to see Steven Meisel shoot for Vogue Italia, and the results are gorgeous,” echoed LastNight.

“All the covers are absolutely beautiful. My favorites are Mariacarla, Maty and Deva,” shared Srdjan.

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The current shared content strategy Condé Nast is inflicting upon the editions of Vogue worldwide has became the bane of our lives. Kendall Jenner’s two-month-old American Vogue cover shoot was ultimately repurposed on Vogue France earlier this month. The latest shoot to be regurgitated and repurposed is from British Vogue‘s July 2024 edition, recycled as Vogue Italia’s August 2024 cover. Francesca Ragazzi selects a shoot from Martin Parr’s fashion story featuring model Karen Elson. Captured on location within London’s Piccadilly Circus, the celebrated British model who hails from the town of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England sports a look from Virginie Viard’s Pre-Fall 2024 Chanel collection.

Read below the reactions of theFashionSpot’s forum members:

“I’m just as bewildered as those two onlookers are in the back over this! What a truly dreadful, unattractive, pedestrian and insipid cover,” immediately voiced vogue28.

“The two people in the back are taking me out!” laughed forum member onlooker.

“Tourists on Instagram take better pics than this,” scolded kokobombon.

Also left majorly underwhelmed was Lucien112, declaring: “This is a crime! Jail for everyone involved!”

“Karen Elson and Vogue Italia used to be a match made in heaven. what has this magazine become? Atrocious cover,” exclaimed WAVES.

“This is definitely Karen Elson’s weakest Vogue cover to date,” MModa stated.

“Tragic. Just tragic,” sighed helmutnotdead.

Thiago described the end result as “embarrassing” and we couldn’t possibly disagree.

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Editions of Vogue from across the globe still insist on getting us hyped for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The excitement and celebrations for the upcoming international multi-sport event (set the commence July 26) started back in May, when Vogue France gave up its cover to Gigi Hadid ahead of the Vogue World: Paris extravaganza (which celebrated 100 years of fashion and sport). Anna Wintour has since later endorsed Sha’Carri Richardson via American Vogue‘s digital cover, Katarina Johnson-Thompson posed on British Vogue‘s digital offering and Team Australia currently fronts Vogue Australia’s latest. Now, Francesca Ragazzi at Vogue Italia is endorsing Sofia Raffaeli and Milena Baldassarri, with the decorated Italian gymnast duo posing for Bea De Giacomo on Italian Vogue‘s digital installment for July 2024.

Read below the reactions of theFashionSpot’s forum members:

“Why can’t they have models pretending to be athletes like before?” asked alwaysademo.

“Because everyone deserves a Vogue cover now. It simply must be done,” laughed MyNameIs in response.

“At least Vogue Italia is aware that fashion people couldn’t care less about sports and put this stuff on digital issues…” shared a deeply disinterested avonlea002.

Blueorchid commented: “I don’t mind athletes on the cover of magazines at all. Usually they have more accomplishments than someone like, oh… Suki Waterhouse. However, you can tell how little the industry thinks of these athletes by having them look like that. It’s pretty insulting, really.”

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Vogue Italia might not hold the prestige it once did during the reign of the late great Franca Sozzani. However, under the tutelage of Francesca Ragazzi, the magazine still manages to secure big-name talent as cover stars. The likes of Taylor Russell, Bella Hadid, Irina Shayk and Hunter Schafer have covered the Italian fashion bible throughout 2024, and added to the list with the unveiling of the July 2024 edition is Bad Bunny. Ragazzi called upon firm forum favorite Rafael Pavarotti to profile to the Puerto Rican rapper, singer, record producer and co-host of this year’s 2024 Met Gala. On the location within Los Angeles’ historic Chateau Marmont, Bad Bunny stares down Pavarotti’s lens while dressed by stylist George Krakowiak in a black oversized wool coat, mother of pearl button white shirt and turquoise stone bolo tie from Louis Vuitton.

Read below the reactions of theFashionSpot’s forum members:

“It’s probably supposed to be an intense, smouldering stare, but it looks more like one of those mirror images of someone’s face,” voiced tigerrouge.

“Ugly. Keep men off of Vogue covers!” declared a deeply uninterested thenewclassic.

“So insufferable. Get these men out of Vogue please,” MDNA echoed.

“I like Bad Bunny well enough but I don’t know what on earth he’s doing on the July cover of Italian Vogue,” chimed in forum member KoV.

“I don’t believe Bad Bunny is actually relevant in Italy at all… is he?” questioned ah ah.

Isami wasn’t exactly willing to make a mad dash down to the newsstand either, commenting: “Terrible singer, terrible model, terrible cover!”

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You might find it extremely hard to believe that Hunter Schafer has never graced the cover of Vogue – until now. Shocking, right? Francesca Ragazzi at Vogue Italia just put the world to rights, with Schafer unveiled as the magazine’s June 2024 cover star. Following in the footsteps of the likes of Taylor Russell, Bella Hadid and Irina Shayk by fronting the Italian fashion bible in 2024, the American actress, model and undisputed style icon poses for Ethan James Green. In the ethereal (and familiar-looking) cover shot, Schafer is dressed by stylist Dara Allen in an embellished bolero jacket from Giorgio Armani’s Spring 2024 collection.

Read below the reactions of theFashionSpot’s forum members:

“Kind of reminds me of a Shein version of August 2005. Disappointing because Hunter is a beauty, I still remember her Allure cover from a couple of years ago, not sure why photographers struggle to capture her at her best lately. She looks great on the red carpet!” shared WinstonH20.

“It’s an obvious attempt to replicate that legendary Italian Vogue cover, but with that filter and design, who are they even trying to convince?” asked crmsn.

Scotty soon chimed in, sharing: “It’s cute and all, but Snejana’s cover is too iconic to be referenced so literally. Just looks like a bad copy.”

“It’s beautiful shot and a strong cover, references and all,” Marc10 defended.

“This feels like a nice attempt at recreating some of that old-school Vogue Italia magic,” confessed vogue28.

In complete agreement was Cute, commenting: “Love the image and immediately thought of Snejana’s Vogue Italia cover as well. I’m surprised that this is Hunter’s first ever Vogue cover!”

“It takes you away. I like the dreamy 70s aesthetic,” admired newton91.

Vogue Italia August 2005 with Snejana Onopka by Steven Meisel:

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Subsequent to being installed as head of editorial content at Vogue Italia, Francesca Ragazzi has undoubtedly made an effort to support and champion homegrown talent. A whole new generation of Italian models graced the February issue while the likes of Benedetta Porcaroli, Matilda De Angelis, Vittoria Ceretti, Donatella Versace and Chiara Ferragni have covered the Italian fashion bible throughout Ragazzi’s tenure. For Vogue Italia’s digital offering for June 2024, Laura Pausini makes an appearance via the lens of Sebastián Faena. The celebrated Italian singer-songwriter poses on the cover to commemorate her 50th birthday, and strikes a pose beofre Faena’s lens wearing a look from Peter Hawkings’ debut Tom Ford collection for Spring 2024.

Read below the reactions of theFashionSpot’s forum members:

“Good god, I can’t even look at Vogue Italia anymore,” cried out aracic.

“This team is clueless, not worthy of our comments anymore,” declared an unamused ah ah.

“Poor Laura,” shrieked Alquimista, also suggest the shoot wasn’t up to scratch.

Xone wasn’t buying it either, expressing: “I’m sure a local talent would’ve made this much much better!”

“I am not familiar with Laura Pausini’s music but from photos she seems to be photogenic and have great style. Nsure how they ended up with that cover,” Urban Stylin chimed in.

” She should have stared deeply into the camera and it would’ve been a good cover,” shared oaklee91.

Yet not everyone was so disappointed. “No clue who Laura Pausini is, and at first glance I thought this was Béatrice Dalle. Quite like the cover though, by no means is it the worst Vogue Italia cover I’ve came across and I like the sense of retro I’m getting from it,” defended vogue28.

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Vogue Italia is one of those fashion magazines with an immense legacy (all thanks to the sheer brilliance of the late great Franca Sozzani). Since Sozzani’s passing, the Italian fashion bible has underwent some significant changes and is undoubtedly a shadow of its former self. From 2017 to 2021, Emanuele Farneti served as editor-in-chief, who was ultimately replaced with Francesca Ragazzi (the magazine’s current head of editorial content). Covers throughout Ragazzi’s reign have been extremely hit and miss – with last month’s Bella Hadid offering feeling like a total missed opportunity. For May 2024, Ragazzi welcomes Irina Shayk as cover girl, marking the Russian beauty’s third since 2017. The industry fave takes it to the racetrack, to the home of Ferrari in the Italian commune of Maranello to be exact. Irina shoots a look over her shoulder clad in Dolce & Gabbana, shot by photographer Theo Liu and styled by Anastasia Barbieri.

Read below the reactions of theFashionSpot’s forum members:

“I miss those days when I would see the cover and get really intrigued by the image, analyzing the backstory etc. All I see now is just an average-looking cover that will be forgotten. Sad,” sighed NicholasII.

“Horrible. That traffic light thing totally ruins the shot,” mikel instantly pointed out.

In agreement was Cocteau Stone: “From her head down to the coat there is a nice 70’s cinematic look. Then, from the head up, with that obstructive light system it quickly heads into corny 80s film territory!”

“Theo Liu’s photography is amateur beyond belief and I’m dumbstruck over how underwhelming Anastasia Barbieri’s styling is. The cover shot itself is hideous, far too zoomed out for my taste. This could’ve been fierce but it’s a FLOP,” chimed in vogue28.

Not everyone, however, was left so dissatisfied with the outcome. “It has a 70s cinematic allure, pretty Italian,” admired ivano.

“Love the cover and great to see Irina. She is beautiful,” enthused MModa.

“Feels refreshing in a way,” said Petrus.

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Until this month, Bella Hadid had not graced the cover of Vogue in almost twelve months. A dramatic statement, compared to the year 2017 when the industry fave graced a total of 7 different editions of the fashion bible. Following a brief hiatus from the spotlight, Bella makes a return to the cover of Vogue Italia with the unveiling of the magazine’s April 2024 installment, 11 months after her last. The American beauty who is set to launch her own makeup brand next month, welcomes us onto the Hadid family farm. Captured by photographer Zoë Ghertner, Bella poses atop Dallas the horse in the cover photograph, dressed by stylist Alex Harrington in a floor-length look from Balenciaga.

Read below the reactions of theFashionSpot’s forum members:

“Feels very flat… but I love seeing Bella Hadid again,” shared thiago the moment the cover dropped.

Sharing the same sentiments was Ihhbl: “Love seeing Bella but this cover feels bland and I hate when I can’t see the neck.”

“Awful cover and the horse looks so fake!” exclaimed DK92.

“You can feel the tension and not in a good way,” Xone commented.

Aracic wasn’t best impressed either, writing: “I blame it on Zoë Ghertner. A photographer with particular proclivity for capturing her subjects in most unflattering light imaginable. Horrible work, as always. Truly a waste of Bella and all of her beauty!”

“A truly wasted opportunity, especially with such a competent model like Bella Hadid. Absolutely hate this, from the naff concept with the horse to the lank hair and nondescript Balenciaga dress. Absolutely beggars believe how so-called creatives believe this level of mediocrity is acceptable…” vogue28 disapproved.

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