Britney to be on the cover of Allure!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

but...

 

 

 

BRITNEY SPEARS will appear on the cover of September's Allure magazine, but Editor in Chief LINDA WELLS says the oft belly-baring singer has missed several opportunities to sit down with them for the accompanying interview.

 

"I thought we could present the profile as her comeback," Linda writes in the magazine's opening letter from the editor. "Britney showed up for Allure's cover shoot on time and ready to work. She was entirely unselfconscious: She took off her wig and then stripped down to the waist, for no apparent reason, before sitting for hair and makeup."

 

Linda adds that Britney was "agreeable and cooperative," but "that was the last we saw of her ... she missed four appointments for an interview." She goes on to say that "Britney has long lost her role-model status ... Spears still commands our attention, perhaps even more so now than before her life imploded."

 

She is featured as a cover piece on "the nature of celebrity 2007."

 

Source: Et

Allure and Elle made more controversial choices. Allure chose pop tart gone wild Britney Spears. Why would a magazine about beauty put on its cover an unstable woman who shaved her own head, went to rehab and is a regular on celebrity weeklies' worst dressed lists? Editor in chief Linda Wells explained in her editor's letter: "I thought we could present the profile as her comeback. Perhaps Britney's story would be redemptive, like those of Angelina Jolie, Drew Barrymore and Mariah Carey before her." Instead, Britney took the photos and bailed she missed four scheduled interviews with writer Judith Newman, and the accompanying comeback story went untold. Newman instead penned a story about the state of celebrities in 2007, and Allure crafted the cover line "Britney Spears: Tells Us Nothing and Everything."

 

source:WWD

Edited August 7, 200718 yr by Dirty Pop

This is an interesting article I saw on why the editor-in-chief of Allure decided to use Britney for the cover shot.

 

I once tried to explain Allure's covers to a group of eight-year-old boys. They were visiting our offices on a school field trip (one of the boys was my son), and I was doing my best imitation of Miss Jean Brodie crossed with Jack Black. I revealed how we select our profile subjects, retouch the images, and craft over the cover lines (boys, do you know what "alliteration" means?). One eager student's hand shot up. "Have you ever had Paris Hilton on your cover?" he asked.

 

"No," I said. "And if I ever do, you'll know it's a sign of the apocalypse."

 

I wonder what those eight-year-old boys would make of Britney Spears on this month's cover of Allure. I wonder how I would explain it to them.

 

The first time we photographed the former Mouseketeer, she was 18 years old and full of promise. It's hard to remember that Britney. I'd seen her at the MTV Video Music Awards, when she ripped off her tuxedo down to a nude, sequined bodysuit and flung herself and her long blonde extensions around the stage. Anyone with a pulse could tell that this was an electrifying performer. For her second Allure cover, in 2005, Britney was slightly world-weary: newly married for the second time, she vowed to get her life, her body, and her career back in shape. This time, with two children, a divorce, a stint in rehab, and an apparently breakdown involving an electric razor, Britney seemed to be joining Paris Hilton in the tabloids with nothing to promote except questionable judgment.

 

Still, I had hope. Spears had been in the recording studio on and off for the past two years, slowly working on her next album. I thought we could present the profile as her comeback. Perhaps Britney's story would be redemptive, like those of Angelina Jolie, Drew Barrymore, and Mariah Carey before her.

 

Britney showed up for Allure's cover shoot on time and ready to work. She was entirely unself-conscious: She took off her wig and then stripped down to the waist, for no apparent reason, before sitting for hair and makeup. She was agreeable and cooperative on the shoot and left at the end of the day, followed by a trail of paparazzi.

 

And that was the last we saw of her.

 

Since then, Britney has had a dust-up with her mother, dropped her publicist... She missed four appointments for an interview with Allure.

 

Britney has long lost her role-model status. That dream of a comeback seems to occupy an ever-more-distant speck on the horizon. Deeply flawed, confused, and unsure of whom to trust, Britney Spears still commands our attention -- perhaps even more so now than before her life imploded. It is this phenomenon that Judith Newman captures in her story. Liberated from an interview, Newman delivers an insightful piece about the nature of celebrity in 2007. And that is why Britney is on our cover.