Vogue Italia, for the first time in its history, renounced the use of photos for the magazine’s January 2020 issue to make room for 7 drawings and illustrations to be used as the cover instead, putting creativity -and the incurred costs of photoshoot production – at the service of sustainability.
Vogue Italia illustrated Covers
The challenge was to demonstrate that it’s possible to communicate the fashions without photographing them. This is a first for Vogue Italia, who had never had an illustrated cover before. The editor explains more about the project here.
All the covers for the January issue were created by artists, ranging from well-known art icons and emerging talents to comic book legends – without the cost of travel, shipping entire wardrobes of clothes or polluting in any way.
Thanks to the generosity of these artists, the amount of money saved in January’s Vogue Italia production will be donated to the restoration of the Querini Stampalia Onlus Foundation in Venice, heavily damaged by the horrible storms last November, according to Emanuele Farneti, editor of Vogue Italy.
Below are the seven illustrated covers for the January Issue.
DAVID SALLE:
ARTIST: David Salle MODEL: Lili Sumner EDITOR: Tonne Goodman Silk dress with carved details and contrasting collar in black leather GUCCI. Full credits: #LiliSumner @nextmodels Editor in chief @efarneti Creative director @ferdinandoverderi Casting directors @pg_dmcasting @samuel_ellis @ DM Fashion Studio
VANESSA BEECROFT:
ARTIST: Vanessa Beecroft. GUCCI organza pleated dress.
CASSI NAMODA:
ARTIST: Cassi Namoda MODEL: Ambar Cristal Zarzuela Striped cotton sweater, houndstooth wool pants GUCCI
MILO MANARA:
ARTIST: Milo Manara MODEL: Olivia Vinten Chiffon top with lace inserts, leather shoulder straps with G motif buckle, leather choker, latex gloves and whip with GUCCI leather handle.
“I owe everything to women,” says Milo Manara, the father of erotic comics. The artist who collaborated with Hugo Pratt, Federico Fellini, and Alejandro Jodorowsky, this year, is celebrating fifty years of career. “For my cover I referenced the greatest of models, Michelangelo’s David, but in female form. I wanted to recreate the same pose, the quiet pride of the victor, which is the attitude that represents femininity in our times despite male resistance. David took on Goliath’s brute force with a slingshot. He won by using intelligence. Today, women have a great Goliath to defeat: male chauvinism, the patriarchy, and violence.” #MiloManara
BLOG BONUS: We featured the erotic artwork of Milo Manara for Ulysse Nardin here.
DELPHINE DESANE:
ARTIST: Delphine Desane. MODEL: Assa Baradji. Oversized GUCCI organza jacket
PAOLO VENTURA:
ARTIST: Paolo Ventura. MODEL: Felice Nova Noordhoff. Sleeveless dress and top with GUCCI fringes
YOSHITAKA AMANO:
ARTIST: Yoshitaka Amano. MODEL: Lindsey Wixson. GUCCI silk and leather choker dress
Full credits, courtesy of Vogue Italia’s Instagram:
#LindseyWixson @thesocietynyc
Editor in chief @efarneti
Creative director @ferdinandoverderi
Fashion @franragazzi @robertaninapinna
Casting directors @pg_dmcasting @samuel_ellis @ DM Fashion Studio