1 in 5 Best Magazine Cover Finalists Feature Woman Atop Building or Pregnancy-Swollen Body Part


We had our fingers crossed for Print‘s lollipop-fronted consumption issue, but the American Society of Magazine Editors had other ideas when selecting their 2007 Best Cover Finalists. And those ideas, culled from 300 entries from 138 magazines, were eerily similar across categories.

Both the Best Celebrity Cover and the Best Fashion Cover nominees include shots of windswept celebrities in white evening gowns atop iconic Manhattan buildings: Naomi Watts astride the tippy-top of the Chrysler Building (Conde Nast Traveler, September 2006) and Drew Barrymore posing on the roof of Rockefeller Center (Harper’s Bazaar, February 2007), respectively.

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