It seems editor Anna Wintour was right to let Kimye pose for the publication’s most controversial cover despite critics blasting the decision
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s Vogue cover is on track to be the highest-selling issue of the magazine.
The decision to put the superstar couple on the front of the publication was a divisive one, but editor Anna Wintour is on her way to being vindicated with huge sales predictions.
After the reality TV star and her fiancé posed for the April issue of the fashion bible, it is expected it will around 500,000 copies, according to reports from RadarOnline.com.
The figures are yet to be confirmed, but it’s thought Kim’s cover could outsell previous issues featuring Beyoncé and America’s First Lady Michelle Obama which sold 355,39 and 293,798 copies respectively.
The numbers are higher than the last estimate, but they still might not do much to convince some of the loudest critics who voiced their disappointment at the decision.
Sarah Michelle Gellar was quick to blast Vogue for putting Kim and Kanye on the cover, insisting it has cost them her subscription.
When it was revealed last month, she wrote: Well……I guess I’m canceling my Vogue subscription. Who is with me???
Anna eventually defended her decision, laying to rest rumours that the rapper had begged for his family to be featured in the magazine.
She said: 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.
Meanwhile, Hard Out Here singer Lily Allen supported the cover, and predicted its huge success.
She insisted: I think that all industries that can be taken advantage of by the internet now, there is no time for irony, it is like ‘what the f*** is going to sell?’. That is it.
And I bet you it is the biggest selling cover they have had in five years.