Yes, we know it's all about us, but we are celebrating our 100th issue. And when canvassing opinion on the best and worst covers out of the 100, who better to ask than those who live and breathe Wallpaper*, who are never backward in coming forward and who can be objective in a subjective evaluation? Step up team Wallpaper*.
The Editor-in-Chief:
The Editorial Director: Richard Cook Top: January-February 2000 Confident, clear, crisp and comprehensively one-dimensional. Magazines can't be everything to everybody and you are in doubt here as to where this issue is taking you and just as importantly, where it isn't. Plus it's an arresting image that would still look just as different on the newsstand today as it did then.
Turkey: January-February 2004 I'm still shocked that this particular look - stolid correctional shoes, skimpy speedos and two impossibly heavy woollen knits plus an exhibition-sized man bag - didn't become a staple of your better beaches from Amagansett to the Zuider Zee, but the fact remains that it just didn't.
The Executive Managing Editor: Jessica Firmin Top: January 2007 Strong, to-the-point graphic that perfectly demonstrates the idea of a secret elite while cleverly incorporating the asterisk.
Turkey: June 2005 For me it's anything that costs the earth but doesn't look like it. In particular W* 079: an average-looking girl in an average-looking landscape. Shot in the south of France but it looks like Epping Forest.
The Editor-at-Large: Suzanne Trocmé Top: July-August 2004 I love the Milton Glaser for its bravery and because it is FAB and shows we stuck our necks out. In effect, it was our first Art cover.
Turkey: May 2001 Although I rarely like to look at the negative, my absolute least favourite was the Claudia Schiffer issue, simply because it was our token celeb cover thus still shrieks. I have absolutely nothing against Claudia Schiffer but cannot see the point in introducing celebs and then not continuing. It is the most incongruous. It was fraught with disaster from the beginning.
The Art Director: Meirion Pritchard Top: October 2006 There have been many great Wallpaper* covers, but this is the daddy. Die cutting, kiss cutting, spot UV and raised UV are just some of the reasons why.
Turkey: July-August 1998 So bad it's laughable. Not only does it have the cover line 'Naan goes nuclear', it also has white European models 'blacked-up' to supposedly look Indian.
The Photography Director: Claudia Donaldson Top: October 2006 Unlike anything we'd done before. Innovative and beautifully produced.
Turkey: January-February 2004 There is not one redeeming feature about this picture - it's fucking awful. It is so far from where we are now and hopefully from where we will ever go. It's hard to imagine how we could have got it so wrong.
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