The most important "women's" magazine covers for 2014

About the main trends of the year It can be judged not only by the headlines of the press, but also by the covers of its print publications - the most obvious way to identify a position on certain issues or simply to say something. Photos on the covers of magazines and newspapers can cause more discussion than their content, since the information is still easier to absorb visually. In this list we will talk about the covers of print magazines published this year. These are covers with women, about women, or for women, marking up important 2014 stories.

Dazed & Confused

February

British Dazed & Confused, which shaped the whole generation of how magazine covers about style and covers should look like in principle, in February released a special room with a punchline “Girls rule the world”. The cover was a photograph of Lupita Nyong'o, a Kenyan actress who broke into the establishment after the release of the historical drama "12 Years of Slavery", where she played a slave and for the role in which she won an Oscar. In this issue, which was really entirely devoted to women who shook the fashion and art industry, Lupita was interviewed where she talked about her work on the Oscar-winning film and how she wants to break stereotypes about women in Hollywood. Already then, in April, People magazine will put Nyongo in the first place on his annual list of the most beautiful women, and Lancôme will make the face of the brand, but the tone of general insanity on Lupita was set in Dazed & Confused. This crazy beauty cover was made by fashion photographer Sharif Hamza, famous for photo shoots for Japanese Vogue, V, Interview, Love and designing campaigns for H & M, Dior, Topman and J.W. Anderson.

The Australian Women's Weekly

July

Australia’s weekly women's weekly magazine, Women's Weekly, was published in July with the most unexpected cover in the world. Typically, AWW, like the rest of women's magazines, puts on the cover of famous and beautiful actresses and models, so the July issue is partly not left from the standards. The cover photo really was the former model and athlete Turia Pitt, only her face and body covered the scars from burns after the experienced accident. In 2011, Pitt participated in the marathon, during which there was a steppe fire. Turia received burns of 65 percent of the skin, underwent several dozen surgeries and recovered almost two years with the help of her groom. In her own words, she will never be able to restore her former appearance.

The July issue of the Women's Weekly became the most popular in Australia for the entire 2014 and sold 2.2 million copies, beating the second most popular issue (1.8 million) with Prince William and Kate Middleton on the cover during their visit to Australia . According to representatives of AWW, they chose Pitt as the main character of the issue, because "she is simply one of the most impressive women to meet. Any attempt to describe the magic and beauty of Turia will be lost in platitudes and clichés."

Paper

winter edition

New York magazine Paper, which focuses on pop culture and its representatives, has released a winter issue with Kim Kardashian on the cover. Unlike the acclaimed cover of Vogue, where Kardashian posed with her husband Kanye West in a wedding dress, at Paper Kardashian appeared as self-sufficient as possible - without her husband and almost without clothes. The editors of the magazine said that the main mission of their release was to “blow up the Internet” and, in their opinion, there is no one in the world who could cope with this task better than Kardashian. The photo session in the magazine was accompanied by remarks that Kim was "the magic power of pop culture, capable of generating headlines just by leaving the house."

In a sense, Kardashian really blew up the Internet and really generated the headlines, but at the end it became not at all a symbol of the pop culture of 2014, but an international meme, to which this time the celebrities themselves had already connected. American comedian Chelsea Handler published a photo on the caption instagram "Can you imagine that you have two asses on one screen? Guess which one is real. Your turn, instagram." Zach Braff prifotoshopil his face to the body of Kim. And the singer Lorde just called her mother in horror.

M, Le magazine du Monde

October

French weekly magazine M, published in the publishing house "Le Monde", has released a number dedicated to the beauty of the age. The photographer of the whole issue and the cover photo was made by Richard Burbridge, a famous English fashion photographer, working mainly with the Italian Vogue, Dazed & Confused and The New Yorker. M magazine itself began to be published in September 2011 and, despite its youth, deftly catches trends, while maintaining the French commitment to the old-fashioned mode. Basically, M talks about fashion, painting, and contemporary cultural issues around the world. In this issue, the editors presented eight women who "bear the signs of the times bravely" and are far from perfect photo-shooters. A photo session is worth seeing in its entirety - this is an incredible elegance example of shooting and make-up of women who really wear their age with pride.

The New York Times Magazine

November

The Sunday supplement to The New York Times usually consists of longrid articles — huge feature writers, which attract prominent authors and writers, as well as photo shoots that focus on fashion and style. This is a lite version of an extremely serious newspaper, and in the November issue a cover photo signified a powerful Robert Draper article about rapists in the US military. She tells about the sensational "Wilkerson case" - a lieutenant colonel who raped a sleeping girl, who was first convicted, but the suit against which was subsequently rejected, and Wilkerson himself was restored to the rank.

The cover of this issue of the magazine is one of the victims of violence, but not civilian, but military, whose career was ruined after she declared violence, and the rapist was convicted. In the article, the heroine stands under the pseudonym "Chris", because she does not want to reveal her identity. Meanwhile, a cover photo, being as anonymous as possible, because of its apparent simplicity, sounds more powerful than guns, blood and everything that usually accompanies the “violence” tag in magazines - this is helplessness, fear, and the inability to look ahead.

The new yorker

October

The covers of the American magazine The New Yorker are known even among those who never opened it - these are illustrated statements on the topic of the day, unique sketches of what is happening in the world of the US intellectual elite, or simply an illustrated opinion of the editorial board on a given occasion. The cover of the October issue was painted by Scottish artist Tom Gold, who said that the girl was originally supposed to hold an e-book in her hands, but then the editors decided to give her the usual paper one, since "the fact that she is holding one of the million my books are cute. " This illustration of what is happening in the world of printing was very timely, because despite the growing number of users of electronic books, paper books are in no hurry to give up the distance and seem to be able to withstand the competition. And according to a recent report, hardcover and paperback books are still superior to electronic sales. Finally, the cover signified the announcement of the finalists for the US National Book Award. Well, a woman on a cover story is most likely due to the fact that women are still the most active readers in the world.

TIME

June

The weekly news magazine TIME, as a rule, operates with a frontal method - which is worth at least the most famous cover of the publication with the President of Russia as the man of the year. If other magazines are still trying to speak in hints and undertones, then TIME in its covers and content is very unambiguous and straightforward. For example, at the beginning of the summer, editors spoke on the topic of LGBT, putting on the cover of the June issue of Laverne Cox - an American transgender actress, known for the role of Sophia Barset in the TV series "Orange is the hit of the season." For this role, Cox was nominated for an Emmy and became the first transgender person nominated for an award. Shooting for TIME made Cox also the first transgender woman on the cover of this magazine. Her photograph can be considered significant because TIME is sometimes called the mouthpiece of the Republican Party due to their extreme conservatism, and if this magazine put Laverna on the cover, then for the fate of transgender people in the US, you can not worry - they receive support from all sides.

The guardian weekend

September

Although the most famous cover with Lena Dunham was the story of Vogue, the output supplement to the newspaper The Guardian coped with the task much better: Dunham's cover photo is not so desperate for photoshoot or glossy, showing the actress in a shy and much more natural look. In the very issue, editors published an excerpt from Lena’s recently published book “Not That Kind of Girl”, where she talks about how neither success, nor sex, nor the philosophically-minded father could help the author of the TV series “Girls” cope with the fear of death. Dunham will surely enter the tops of the main women of the outgoing year not only due to the published autobiography and now he can add a quality mark from the old-fashioned newspaper The Guardian to his piggy bank - if they approved, then everything is in order.

Bloomberg businessweek

November

The so-called gamergate — the scandal involving Anita Sargsyan, a video blogger and critic who concentrates on the problem of excessive sexism in video games — received unexpected coverage in the business press. The publication of Bloomberg Businessweek, in which they write mainly about business news, decided to devote a release to problems in the gaming industry, telling the story of Sargsyan. In fact, Bloomberg Businessweek were the only ones who found the scandal important enough to put an illustration about it on the cover. As a rule, the story of how each cover of the publication was made is published on the website, and this issue was no exception. Interestingly, from the correspondence of the Karlssonwilker design studio and the editors, it turned out that outstanding illustrators are also holding up deadlines, have no idea about what games can be called gender neutral, and the whole struggle for gender equality in video games is quite clear when a strong woman pulls out imagine the right fists, scattering Godzill in the corners

The wire

July

British magazine The Wire, dedicated to avant-garde music, is considered a publication for those who listen to groups whose names nobody knows, and loves music that no one understands. At the same time, he has an absolutely cult status due to the ability to find rare records and an incredible level of writing talent of the authors and music critics there. Moreover, they absolutely do not pursue fashion and novelties. The cover of the July issue is decorated by Yoshimi P-We, a Japanese drummer, best known for playing as part of the beautiful group Boredoms. The Wire, like most of the specialized music publications, has its favorites, and Boredoms are on the main list - for the twentieth anniversary of the magazine they were invited to perform. In the end, this July cover with Yoshimi P-We is also simply wildly beautiful: a light summer color palette, a carefully chosen font and one of the best female drummers as a role model.