It's been four years...

Almost four years have already passed for Chinese Vogue under Angelica Cheung. I remember the news about the first issue... Gemma Ward was being at the very top of the modeling world and Du Juan was just starting to get international attention.

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Du Juan, Gemma Ward, Wang Wenqin and three other models

Before the September issue launches, let's look at all the covers of the magazine (beauty supplements excluded).

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Gisele Bundchen, October 2005

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Hana Soukupova, November 2005

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Nicole Kidman, December 2005

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Kate Moss, January 2006

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Du Juan, February 2006

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Gemma Ward, March 2006

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Daria Werbowy, April 2006

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Lily Donaldson, May 2006

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Freja Beha Erichsen, June 2006

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Doutzen Kroes, July 2006

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Mariacarla Boscono, August 2006

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Du Juan, Gemma Ward, Sasha Pivovarova, September 2006

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Maggie Cheung, October 2006

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Lily Donaldson, November 2006

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Gisele Bundchen, December 2006

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Natalia Vodianova, January 2007

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Du Juan, February 2007

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Gisele Bundchen, March 2007

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Shu Qi, April 2007

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Lily Donaldson, May 2007

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Wang Wen Qing, June 2007

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Doutzen Kroes, July 2007

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Lily Donaldson, August 2007

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Stephanie Shiu, Du Juan, Mackenzie Hamilton, Pei Bei, September 2007

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Mackenzie Hamilton, October 2007

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Emma Pei, November 2007

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Du Juan, December 2007

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Lily Donaldson, January 2008

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Du Juan, February 2008

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Sasha Pivovarova, March 2008

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Zhang Ziyi, April 2008

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Zhou Xun, May 2008

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Shu Qi, June 2008

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Gisele Bundchen, July 2008

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Maggie Cheung, August 2008

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Raquel Zimmermann, September 2008

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Du Juan, October 2008

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Agyness Deyn, November 2008

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Kate Moss, Maggie Cheung, December 2008

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Naomi Campbell, January 2009

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Wei Tang, February 2009

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Anne Hathaway, March 2009

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Lucy Liu, April 2009

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Du Juan, May 2009

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Lily Donaldson, June 2009

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Anna Selezneva, July 2009

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Sigrid Agren, August 2009

And then, some statistics (correct me if I'm wrong):
  • There are 21 covers with Asian women, 29 with white women, 1 with black woman
  • There are 12 covers with celebrities
  • Du Juan appeared on 9 covers, Lily Donaldson on 6, Gisele Bundchen on 4
  • So far 48 issues were published, one of them having two covers
  • Out of the final 49 covers, only 2 are reprints
  • 34 covers have completely white background
souce: many websites, but mainly tfs