Having paintings on the cover of Vogue is a rarity. Since the magazine was founded, artists like Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, Marie Laurencin, and John Currin have been given the task.
Now, for the 2020 September issue, Vogue has commissioned two artists, Kerry James Marshall and Jordan Casteel, to paint separate covers.
Each was given complete freedom to decide the style and subject of their cover, so long as they featured a dress by one of four designers.
RELATED: ‘Vanity Fair’ Honours Breonna Taylor With New September Issue Cover Marshall chose to paint a fictional woman, wearing a formal evening dress by Off-White. “[Their skin is so dark that it is] at the edge of visibility,” he said of his fictional subject. “But if you’re
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