Rookie Radhika’s shaky start
Vanity Fair is facing yet another embarrassing cover crisis.
The Condé Nast monthly’s March issue is slated to feature a cover close-up of Jennifer Lawrence gazing to her right with a shaft of light illuminating the right side of her face, according to a copy of the cover obtained by The Post.
That, insiders noted, looks painfully close to the December cover of The Hollywood Reporter, which also pictured a similarly sultrylooking Lawrence, gazing to her right with a shaft of light across her right cheek.
To make matters worse, an early mock-up of the cover used a cover line with big letters across the bottom — in almost exactly the same, boxy font as The Hollywood Reporter had used across the bottom of its own cover.
The similarity was too much for Vanity Fair’s new editor Radhika Jones — the 44-year-old successor to legendary Editor Graydon Carter. She scrambled to switch out the fonts and reposition the cover lines in the transitional March issue in a bid to minimize the embarrassment, according to insiders.
The photo was not changed, according to before-and-after copies of the cover obtained by The Post.
Staffers at VF have been buzzing about the cover, shot in early December by fashion’s ubiquitous duo Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, sources said.
VF downplayed any issues with the cover, saying they are “delighted with our gorgeous cover of Jennifer Lawrence.”
Last month, a photo shoot for VF’s Hollywood issue by Annie Leibovitz included Photoshopped images of Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon that appeared to give them extra limbs — three legs for Witherspoon and three hands for Winfrey.