A look at the editor-in-chief’s Vogue covers from her first radical combination in 1988 to her final ‘weird’ shoot
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uring her 37-year tenure as editor-in-chief of American Vogue, Anna Wintour has presided over more than 400 covers. December 2025’s, on newsstands this week, will prove her last before she steps away to focus on roles as Vogue’s global editorial director and chief content officer at Condé Nast.
The cover is certainly memorable: an image of the actor Timothée Chalamet photographed by Wintour’s long-term collaborator Annie Leibovitz in a Celine white polo neck, long cream coat and embroidered jeans, standing on a “planet” with a backdrop of a star-filled nebula provided by Nasa.
It has had something of a negative reception online. On Vogue’s Instagram, comments under the post include “I’m just horrified. It’s offensive with the budgets you have”, and “when you ask ChatGPT to do your cover”.
