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
Naomi Campbell threatened to withdraw his advertising from the magazine if it continued to refuse to place black models on its cover. The following year, she appeared on the cover of American "Vogue", which marked the first time a black model graced the front of the September magazine, traditionally the year's biggest and most important issue. In January 1990, Campbell, who was declared "the reigning megamodel of them all" by "Interview", appeared with Turlington, Evangelista, Cindy Crawford and Tatjana Patitz on a cover of British "Vogue", shot by Peter Lindbergh. The group was subsequently cast to star in the music video for