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
Natalia Vodianova Indian, Turkish, Japanese, Greek, Polish, South Korean and Portuguese "Vogue"; "W"; "Numéro"; "i-D"; "Marie Claire"; "GQ"; "Elle"; "Allure"; "Glamour"; "Pop"; "Love"; "Cosmopolitan"; "Harper's Bazaar"; "L'Officiel"; "Grazia"; "Esquire"; "Tatler"; "Hello!", "Porter" and "Interview". Photographed by Steven Meisel, Vodianova made her first appearance on the cover of American "Vogue" in the September 2004 edition alongside Gisele Bündchen and Daria Werbowy as one of the "Models of the Moment". She then appeared as the solo cover subject of the July 2007 edition of the magazine. During this time period, other covers of American "Vogue" have all featured non-model celebrities with only three other