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 (magazine) influencer that introduces new artists to the scene such as Suzi Analogue in 2017. As Wintour came to personify the magazine's image, both she and "Vogue" drew critics. Wintour's one-time assistant at the magazine, Lauren Weisberger, wrote a "roman à clef" entitled "The Devil Wears Prada". Published in 2003, the novel became a bestseller and was adapted as a highly successful, Academy Award-nominated film in 2006. The central character resembled Weisberger, and her boss was a powerful editor-in-chief of a fictionalized version of "Vogue". The novel portrays a magazine ruled by "the Antichrist and her coterie of fashionistas, who exist