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
Teen Vogue column drew criticism from some parents for what they viewed as content inappropriate to the target audience of teenage girls. In "The Independent," J J Barnes also criticized the column as "bizarre" for focusing on male reproductive anatomy rather than female. "Teen Vogue"'s digital editorial director Phillip Picardi defended the column, saying that backlash was "rooted in homophobia." Teen Vogue Teen Vogue was a US magazine launched in 2003 as a sister publication to "Vogue", targeted at teenage girls. Like "Vogue", it includes stories about fashion and celebrities. Since 2015, following a steep decline in sales, the magazine cut back