Little Miss Media Junkie

Love Elle’s December cover with Jennifer Lawrence. Her makeup is exquisite. The rest of the shoot is here.

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Katy Perry is on the cover of Elle’s September issue. I suppose this image is very Katy: the neon, sparkles, purple hair but it just doesn’t seem like Elle to me. I do like the dress she’s wearing but that awful wig is so distracting. It kind of reminds me of this disaster.

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Vulture has a great slideshow of the best (and worst) in July’s entertainment photography. My favorite is Jessica Pare in Elle.

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Elle magazine seriously hit the summer sales jackpot with this cover. Katie looks nice — although the styling is sort of tired — but in light of TomKat’s contract ending this month, ahem, I mean their marriage ending, Elle surely has a best-seller on its hands.

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Kristen Stewart is on the cover of the July issue of Vanity Fair. Correctly or not, I always use a VF cover as a measure of Hollywood megastardom. VF’s editors have to be confident that their cover choice will appeal to a slightly more male audience than Vogue’s and their median reader is 44.

Kristen is promoting ‘Snow White and the Huntsman,’ for which she also booked three international Elle covers and a shared Interview cover with costar Charlize. When a star books more than one cover for the same movie, the bigger magazine typically gets them first and then the magazine with less cache gets them the following month. For example, Sarah Jessica Parker booked Vogue’s June and May covers in 2008 and 2010 respectively to promote the SATC movies and she covered Marie Claire’s July ‘08 issue and June ‘10 issue for the same films. Interestingly Kristen appeared on the Elle trifecta in June and VF in July. I guess three magazines trumps Vanity Fair.

I like the image of Kristen. She looks slightly awkward as always but I think it works to give the photo a mannequin-esque quality. And her makeup is exquisite. A preview of her cover story is here.

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Kristen Stewart has in fact one upped Jennifer Lawrence and scored triple Elle magazine covers. Technically this French Elle cover is their May issue, but over there they follow this novel system of having their magazine dates coincidence with the actual month that they are on newsstands. How provincial!

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I’ve been avoiding posting about this cover because it irked me so much when it was first released. Jessica Simpson is a best seller for Elle and they wisely put her on their cover as much as possible. It’s quite a scoop that she confirmed she’s having a girl in their pages but I can’t get behind this nude cover.

Jessica follows her former rivals Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears who posed for similar covers of Marie Claire and Harper’s Bazaar respectively. And of course they’re all paying homage to the now-iconic image of a nude and pregnant Demi Moore on the cover of Vanity Fair shot by Annie Leibovitz. Interestingly Jessica’s photo is an exact replica of Demi’s down to the yellow cocktail ring on her middle finger.

However, Demi’s cover was controversial when it was first released but it’s been over 20 years and the trend just feels tired and boring at this point.

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Girl Crush!

Read the cover preview here.

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