UPDATED JULY 26th 2012: The cover was photographed by Mikael Jansson and styled by George Cortina.

The leggy American, and the current face of Elie Saab, is looking vampire-esque in a sleeveless chain dress from Yves Saint Laurent Fall Winter 2012 colelction. This is by far, Vogue Japan‘s best cover to date.
Click here to view last year August cover featuring Karolina Kurkova, here for 2010 cover with Natasha Poly and here for 2009 cover with Iris Strubegger.

August 16th, 2012 at 7:01 PM
[...] is Karlie Kloss‘ third September cover slot right after Vogue Japan and Vogue [...]
October 15th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
[...] Swanepoel, rising duo Daniele Duella and Iango Henzi for May with Natasha Poly, Mikael Jansson for September issue with Karlie Kloss (our favourite!), and Patrick Demarchelier for November issue with Aymeline [...]