For its January issue, fashion magazine
Vogue Italia celebrates the beauty of the animal kingdom on its seven covers. Through the lens of an esteemed photographer, the creatures, from the menacing felines of the wild and the busiest colony of bees to the tame and delicate canine, lamb, and ostrich, are presented in their natural habitats the form in artworks or in a beautified studio shoot to raise awareness on a decades-long initiative.
“Animals do not exist for our purpose, nor as a function of what we would like them to be,” says
Vogue Italia editor in chief
Emanuele Farneti. “And it seems almost too obvious that the fashion industry, like any other economic activity, must ask itself where the limits lie in the exploitation of natural resources, and what prospects are offered by technological aspects.”