Anna Wintour defends Kim Kardashian & Kanye West 'Vogue' cover
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West may be celebrating their Vogue cover, but plenty of people have been put off by their big score.
The magazine’s infamous Editor-In-Chief, Anna Wintour, is biting back at critics and defending her decision to place her famous friends on the coveted cover.
She also took time to shoot down reports that Yeezus begged her to put Kim on the cover.
Check out her official statement:
“Part of the pleasure of editing Vogue, one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature those who define the culture at any given moment, who stir things up, whose presence in the world shapes the way it looks and influences the way we see it. I think we can all agree on the fact that that role is currently being played by Kim and Kanye to a T. (Or perhaps that should be to a K?)
As for the cover, my opinion is that it is both charming and touching, and it was, I should add, entirely our idea to do it; you may have read that Kanye begged me to put his fiancée on Vogue’s cover. He did nothing of the sort. The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn’t true.
There’s barely a strand of the modern media that the Kardashian Wests haven’t been able to master, and for good reason: Kanye is an amazing performer and cultural provocateur, while Kim, through her strength of character, has created a place for herself in the glare of the world’s spotlight, and it takes real guts to do that.”
-Anna Wintour
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