Finally, a fashion magazine has been brave enough to put a gladiator on the cover. Or just a Black woman. Actress Kerry Washington, the star of ABC’s hit show Scandal and the new film Peoples (produced by Tyler Perry), has finally landed the cover of a national magazine. Gracing the June 2012 issue of ELLE magazine,
I think by now we’ve all seen the iconic shots of style-maven Victoria Beckham at the Coco Chanel apartment in Paris with Karl Lagerfeld. The shot was part of a teaser for the new ELLE France November issue that features VB on the cover and is shot by Karl Lagerfeld. Inside the pages she says,
It’s always so nice and refreshing to see an African-American face on the cover of a national magazine, specially one of my favorite actresses, Octavia Spencer. In case you don’t remember her, Spencer won an Oscar last year for her portrayal of the sassy and brazen maid in The Help (just one of
Katy Perry is another one of America’s sweethearts, even if she’s not always so sweet. The daughter of preachers, she has the perfect mix of innocent girl next door and glam rock. Her music is infectious and her style is covetable, even if not easily imitable. That’s why she’s the perfect pick for a September cover.
