Title: Anna Wintour admits Vogue's execs were 'stunned' over Naomi Campbell cover | Daily Mail Online
Headings: Vogue editor Anna Wintour admits the magazine's execs were 'stunned' when she put a black model, Naomi Campbell, on the September cover for the first time in 1989
Vogue editor Anna Wintour admits the magazine's execs were 'stunned' when she put a black model, Naomi Campbell, on the September cover for the first time in 1989
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Content: She’s superwoman, she’s an extraordinary business woman, she’s a force of fashion. She totally understands the way to communicate to millions and millions of fans.' I remember all the men in suits being absolutely stunned that I would put a black woman on the September cover
But while no one would dare question the decision to put one of the most famous pop stars in the world in the prime spot - especially since one of her previous Vogue covers, in 2013, sold 350,000 copies - that wasn't always the case for black celebrities. 'For my very first September issue, I put Naomi Campbell on the cover,' Anna remembers. ' She was wearing this orange Anne Klein sequin suit - it would probably look incredibly '80s today. And we have this meeting every month where we present the issue to the corporate floor, and I remember all the men in suits being absolutely stunned by the fact that I would put a black woman on the September cover of Vogue. 'So, looking at this issue made me very proud I think of how far we’ve come and how much the world has changed and hat question would just simply not arise today.' Photos by late fashion photographer Irving Penn go on... Instagram's most popular supermodels revealed
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