The cover of Vogue Italia, by Emanuele Farneti, the director, which will be out on newsstands this April, is white. It has never happened in the history of the magazine to be seen printed in this way. There is a huge archive on the covers of Vogue Italia because with their photos they have always told a story, denounced an event or rejoiced over something. But for this month the cover doesn’t speak, it chooses to remain silent and to express itself with a color, White. A color without color, but which in its own way conveys a lot. As written in the post published on the magazine’s instagram profile, White is the color of peace, friendship, purity, hope, strength. It is the color that comes after dark.
Only behind the great silence of this cover does a very lively and personal issue of Vogue Italia come to life. More than 40 artists have contributed in their own way to expressing the inner meaning of this quarantine. Simple and honest images that represent the widest range of emotions possible and together write an important visual story of the times we are living, also documenting the effort of a community that lives and works remotely.
But if Vogue Italia turns white, Vanity Fair, director Simone Marchetti, is out today on April 8 in the newsstands, with a cover that portrays a tricolor canvas with a cut that represents a wound but also a crack. It is a work created exclusively for Vanity Fair by the artist Francesco Vezzoli, in homage to Lucio Fontana.
The title chosen this time is #L’Italiasiamonoi, a hashtag that wants to celebrate Italian unity and creativity.
The work will be auctioned and the proceeds will be donated to charity to support businesses.
