The Kimye Vogue Cover Was Grace Coddington’s Idea.

• There has been a lot said about Kim Kardashian and Kanye West‘s now-infamous Vogue cover, but Vogue editor Grace Coddington has the last, if not most important word on the shoot—because it was all her idea. The editrix sat down with the Financial Times‘s Vanessa Freidman (who is leaving to become a fashion critic at the New York Times) for an interview, in which she reveals how the cover came to be. “There was a wedding story to be done,” she told FT. “And Anna probably had them in mind, because she had been seeing a lot of Kanye, so she said, ‘Maybe we should shoot it on lookalikes.’ And I thought, ‘Why not just do it on the real thing? This is Vogue.’ And I do think Kim Kardashian represents this moment in our culture. I’m fascinated by her, in the same way I’m fascinated by the people I see on the street or the subway.” (FT)