PHOTO: Meryl Streep Snags Her First American Vogue Cover

by Justin Fenner | 2:18 pm, December 10th, 2011

Hold on to your Academy Awards, kids! America’s greatest living actress Meryl Streep is on the January 2012 cover of Vogue, and she looks so simple and fresh that we’re almost having trouble writing about it.

Streep, who stars in the upcoming Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady, has never been on the cover of US Vogue before, which is an unfortunate occurrence that may or may not have something to do with her portrayal of high-powered fashion editor ~~Anna Wintour~~ Miranda Priestly in the 2006 movie The Devil Wears Prada. (Streep’s last Vogue experience was the May 2010 cover of Vogue Paris, and even then she had to share it with Penelope Cruz.)

At any rate, this cover is different from the last few ethereal, dark, high-fashion-mermaid-looking covers the magazine has put out over the past few months. It’s all Meryl, almost completely unadorned, wearing a simple dress and a pair of gobstopper diamond earrings, sitting on the beach. So does this mean that Vogue is getting a fresh, clean start to 2012? Maybe not. December and January covers often go to actors who are campaigning for big awards nominations, which must mean that Streep’s crack team of publicists and promoters really want The Iron Lady to blow up big time.

Check out the cover and tell us what you think of it, below.

[The Fashion Spot]

Meryl Streep Vogue Vogue January 2012

LuLu

Wow!She’s still gorgeous after all these years.Can’t wait to see The Iron Lady!
dr

Hmmm…I know there are going to be a lot of people who just think this cover is marvelous, but I think it’s terrible. I don’t really know what they are going for, but it just is bad on a lot of levels. I’m tired of these shots on the beach. Every other cover is on the freaking beach. Here’s a thought, it’s a January cover, why not photograph something wintry like a snowy hill or a frosted forest. And then there is Meryl herself. The hair has gone flat, the outfit looks like something made from the upholstery of a couch and it appears as if her left breast is missing. (I don’t follow her that close so if she really did have a secret mastectomy on the left side then that last part is excused.) Meryl’s features look incredibly long and pale in comparison to the rest of her body and her eyes look small and slit like. Are the people and regular readers of vogue just so caught up in their reputation that they can’t look at something objectively and just say “Hey, we are putting really bad pics on the covers.”
http://twitter.com/rasberry_blush Fatma Makame

I like Meryl for all her roles but I have to agree with dr’s comments above.
Anonymous

she’s amazing. should have been on cover years ago
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December and January covers often go to actors who are campaigning for big awards nominations, which must mean that Streep’s crack team of publicists and promoters really wantThe Iron Lady to blow up big time.

PHOTO: Meryl Streep Snags Her First American Vogue Cover

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