André Leon Talley Instagram – A glorious visual cantata sung between iconic Naomi Campbell and Vogue. To celebrate her five decades of advocacy, mentoring, and iconic class status, Anna Wintour delivers again, with this celebrated cover of Naomi. Both have sung in clarion voices the talents of their better angels. This kind of cover will help heal wounds of intolerance. Anna made icon history by featuring Naomi Campbell on her first solo cover of American Vogue in September 1989 – history is cyclical.
This cover, stunning in its visual drama of glambolic elegance (in Dior couture!) embodies the best of all possible worlds. We must live in the world of forgiveness. Both women represent the better angels of today who address the importance of giving back to better mankind. Campbell speaks out against systemic racism and fights to erase all the decades of inequality and injustice. The sheer presence of Campbell as an iconic angel, posing in stoic perfection and dressed in white, calls to mind the iconic angels of Cimabue altar works, (Florentine artist, 1290). Inside, she is photographed, like quiet fireworks, in her hooded silvery spangled Valentino, couture dress, sparkling at the age of 50 as she was when she was discovered outside on the streets of Covent Garden, in her native London.
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