Vogue : a Blank White Cover

Vogue Italia Reacts to Coronavirus Crisis With Special Edition Blank White Cover

A plain white cover for Italian Vogue… Wow. For the first time in the history of this iconic magazine, the April edition of Vogue Italia features a totally white cover. So incredibly meaningful. One of our favorite lines from the Editor, Emanuele Farneti:

“White is for those who are filling this empty time and space with ideas, thoughts, stories, lines of verse, music and care for others.”⁠

Inside this incredible April 2020 issue of Vogue Italia it includes a photo series titled #FarAwaySoClose, featuring some favorite models photographed in their homes. Here’s Gigi Hadid lounging on a couch playing video games at her farm wearing a red Chanel cardigan. Could you imagine looking that amazing while playing your Nintendo?

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Like every industry, Fashion is finding its new normal ... so when @vogueitalia sends you a @chanelofficial look, you create a fantasy scene of what we actually do in sweats 😆❤️ still featuring Goldfish tho !! 🎮 shot @ home on the farm by my quarantine sis @leahmccarthy (v proud of your photography career debut.... major 😂😂😭) for Vogue Italia’s April 2020 Issue
 
A post shared by  Gigi Hadid (@gigihadid) on Apr 8, 2020 at 2:16pm PDT
 

But the cover truly is groundbreaking and the full letter from the Editor is just incredible. You can read more of his words on the Vogue Italia homepage. But for now… here are some of his words. They gave us goosebumps and there were a few tears as well.

#WeAreAllInThisTogether

“In its long history stretching back over a hundred years, Vogue has come through wars, crises, acts of terrorism. Its noblest tradition is never to look the other way.⁠⠀
Just under two weeks ago, we were about to print an issue that we had been planning for some time, and which also involved L’Uomo Vogue in a twin project.⁠⠀
But to speak of anything else – while people are dying, doctors and nurses are risking their lives and the world is changing forever – is not the DNA of Vogue Italia. Accordingly, we shelved our project and started from scratch.⁠⠀
The decision to print a completely white cover for the first time in our history is not because there was any lack of images – quite the opposite. We chose it because white signifies many things at the same time.⁠

White is first of all respect.⁠⠀
White is rebirth, the light after darkness, the sum of all colours.⁠⠀
White is the colour of the uniforms worn by those who put their own lives on the line to save ours.⁠⠀
It represents space and time to think, as well as to stay silent.⁠⠀
White is for those who are filling this empty time and space with ideas, thoughts, stories, lines of verse, music and care for others.⁠⠀
White recalls when, after the crisis of 1929, this immaculate colour was adopted for clothes as an expression of purity in the present, and of hope in the future.⁠⠀
Above all: white is not surrender, but a blank sheet waiting to be written, the title page of a new story that is about to begin.” 

Read the full Editor’s letter via link in bio on @vogueitalia .⁠⠀
Full credits:⁠⠀
Editor in chief @Efarneti⁠⠀
Creative director @FerdinandoVerderi⁠⠀

Thank you Vogue, for this plain white cover. It touched us when we needed it most.

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