Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's US Vogue cover may have been divisive but it hasn't stopped the April 2014 issue from flying off the rhetorical shelves. The edition is on course to out-sell the publication's 2013 best-sellers; the March and April issues, which featured Beyoncé and Michelle Obama, respectively.
The cover was unveiled at the end of March and quickly garnered criticism from Vogue fans who thought it ridiculous that a reality star famous for a sex tape had scored the cover of the world's most famous fashion magazine. #VogueIsDead began trending on Twitter as the unhappy tweets continued to flood in. Naomi Campbell and actress Sarah Michelle Geller were among the famous names who publicly panned the move.
'Media sources' tell Page Six that the issue is on course to sell 300,000 to 400,000 copies - Beyonce's 2013 cover sold 355,397, while Obama's sold 293,748.
Kim, Kanye and their daughter North inside the issue. Photo: Annie Leibovitz
US Vogue éditor-in-chief Anna Wintour was fierce in her defence of the controversial cover decision, writing in her editor's letter: "As for the cover, my opinion is that it is both charming and touching, and it was, I should add, entirely our idea to do it; you may have read that Kanye begged me to put his fiancée on Vogue's cover. He did nothing of the sort. The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true."
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Parodies also quickly followed, with a version of the cover featuring Miss Piggy and Kermit in place of Kim and Kanye becoming a memorable meme.
According to Hamish Bowles, european editor-at-large, the best-selling US Vogue issue ever was the April 1992 100th anniversary edition, featuring Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Karen Mulder, Elaine Irwin, Niki Taylor, Yasmeen Ghauri, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell and Tatjana Patitz.
Two of the parodies that quickly spread: Kermit and Miss Piggy, and actors Seth Rogen and James Franco
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