Vogue (magazine) audience could conceivably afford. For example, the inaugural cover of the magazine under Wintour's editorship featured a three-quarter-length photograph of Michaela Bercu, an Israeli model, wearing a bejeweled Christian Lacroix jacket and a pair of jeans, a departure from her predecessors' tendency to portray a woman's face alone; according to "The New York Times", this gave "greater importance to both her clothing and her body". As fashion editor Grace Coddington wrote in her memoirs, the cover "endorsed a democratic new high/low attitude to dressing, added some youthful but sophisticated raciness, and garnished it with a dash of confident energy and
Vogue Italia to the present day. In 1961, Condé Nast contacted the owner of "Novita" magazine to invest in a new fashion magazine. From October 1964 until November 1965, the magazine was published as Novita. In 1965, after 73 years since the birth of Vogue, "Vogue Italia" was launched, as Vogue & Novita, being the first issue for the month of November 1965. Consuelo Crespi lead the launch until 1966. In 1966, Franco Sartori was appointed as the first editor-in-chief and under his leadership he changed the name from "Vogue & Novita" to "Vogue Italia", being the May 1966 issue the first