I like how UK Vogue sometimes has models on their covers, unlike US Vogue.

She looks so beautiful and fresh here. What a gorgeous cover!

I don't get it. I don't get why the uh, cognoscenti believe it's preferable to have a model on the cover of a fashion magazine. There is enough airbrushing in the world that a remarkably beautiful actress can look just about attractive enough to be as gorgeous as a model, and actresses tend to have more interesting faces. That Vogue cover is pretty, but pretty vacant. For all we see on America's Next Top Model, there's not much behind the eyes. US Vogue is tabloid trash now, the Aniston cover being the worst recent example. But there is nothing interesting at all on the (very pretty) cover above. Stella Tennant!? Talking? Ye gods. A non pretty model tells us about her not that interesting work. UK Vogue is at its most boring for 10 years. When magazines follow the world of fashion rather than the results, when they are not keeping pace with the culture because they're misguidedly trying to tell us about a world we have no access to (usually because we don't want access to it) they miss the point. The looks are the point, how we get there is not. Culture, current affairs, pretty PICTURES - that's what a fashion magazine is supposed to show. Actresses are just as likely to make pretty pictures and have always been used in commercial fashion, anyway, they just wouldn't always *deign* to go on the covers.