Featured Article: Marie Claire US 2012 Covers Recap

Editors shake up also hit Marie Claire US! Anne Fulenwider, formerly at Brides since October 2011, named as the new Editor in Chief of the magazine earlier this September, and replacing Joanna Coles who moved to Cosmopolitan (she helmed MC for the last six years). Fulenwider is back to Marie Claire because she had served as an executive editor under Coles for two years starting in September 2009. There are not much changed on the cover ever since Fulenwider helmed it. Next year, perhaps?

Anyway, Marie Claire US tapped top celebrities as this year’s cover stars. Starting with Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie who fronted the January issue, by Alexei Hay. They also listed singer and The Voice mentor, Christina Aguilera as the magazine’s February cover star. She was photographed by Tesh, who also shot seven (!) other front pages this year. The British photographer snapped the April, May, June, August, September, November and December issue featuring Leighton Meester, Zooey Deschanel, Jessica Alba, Kristen Wiig, Miley Cyrus (our favourite), Ashley Greene, and Jessica Chastain respectively. The rest of the celebrities who graced the magazine this year are Eva Mendes (March) and Blake Lively (July), both by Txema Yeste and Gwen Stefani (October), by Peggy Sirota.

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Christina Aguilera for Billboard Magazine September 29th 2012

Image via Store Mags.

Christina Aguilera for Lucky October 2012

Click here to view last year October cover featuring Rachel Weisz, here for 2010 cover with Ellen Pompeo, and here for 2009 cover with Kristen Bell.

Image via TFS.

Christina Aguilera for Latina March 2012

Click here to view last year cover featuring Sara Ramirez and here for 2010 cover featuring Arlenis Sosa Pena.

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Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera & Blake Shelton for Rolling Stone US February 16th 2012

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Christina Aguilera for Marie Claire US February 2012

UPDATED JANUARY 19th 2012: Added a new cover image via Store Mags.

UPDATED JANUARY 10th 2012: Added a better quality cover image photographed by Tesh.

Click here to view last year cover featuring Michelle Williams and here for 2010 cover featuring Christina Aguilera (ha! Anyway, click here for the newsstands cover).

Image via TFS.

Christina Aguilera for Herworld Malaysia January 2012

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W Magazine 2011 Covers Recap

This 2011 recap marks W magazine’s first full covers line up with new logo since they changed it September 2010 and their covers did not disappoints.

Stefano Tonchi‘s edited monthly publication chose actors Garrett Hedlund and Emma Stone to graced the January covers photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin and then the magazine gave an exclusive first look of February cover girl, Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander (remember the tension between Vanity Fair and W about the cover star?) from the upcoming David Fincher‘s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The cover was photographed by Jean Baptiste-Mondino who also shot the April covers featuring Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska.

Academy Award nominated actress, Mila Kunis heated up the March cover as she was photographed by Craig McDean in Eres silk bra and Chanel silk tulle organza coat. The British born New York based fashion photographer also lensed Mad Men‘s January Jones for the two covers of May issue. Academy Award winning actors, Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks was photographed together by Mario Sorrenti for the June issue promoting Larry Crowne. The Naples born New York City based photographer also shot one of my favourite magazine covers ever, the December issue featuring the divine Dakota and Elle Fanning. Another Academy Award winning actress, Tilda Swinton, also one of the cover stars for W magazine this year. The 2008 winner of Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role from Michael Clayton was lensed by Tim Walker for August issue.

Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott (the first was born in Turkey while the latter in Wales) photographed Kristen Stewart like we’ve never seen her before, winged tip eyeliner and boufant hair, for the important September cover while the October cover featuring In Time lead casts, Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried, marked the returns of Michael Thompson for magazine cover in a long time.

W gave another slot of two different covers for July (Music & Style) and November (Art & Fashion) issues featuring one nude Christina Aguilera by Daniele & Iango, glammed up Beyoncé by Patrick Demarchelier, the rising model Sui He by Max Vadukul and the quirky Nicki Minaj by Francesco Vezzoli respectively.

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The Hollywood Reporter Issue 23 June 22nd 2011 Cover

The people behind the new hit reality TV show, The Voice, are gracing the latest cover of The Hollywood Reporter including the celebrity judges, Blake Shelton, Cee Lo Green, Christina Aguilera (who reportedly getting paid $225.000 per episode!) and Maroon 5‘s Adam Levine.

Click here to read the excerpts from the magazine.

Christina Aguilera for W July 2011

UPDATED JUNE 15th 2011: Added better cover image.

UPDATED JUNE 14th 2011: Added bigger cover image photographed by Daniele Duella and Iango Henzi and styled by Giovanna Battaglia. Image via TFS.

Is this even real!? Mark S (@106th) just tweeted a pic of Christina Aguilera on the latest issue of W. And here we thought that Beyoncé is the only cover girl for their July issue…

We are so buying the issue!!

Click to see last year’s Eva Mendes cover.