Vittoria Ceretti Magazine Covers: A Visual Journey Through Fashion

Vittoria Ceretti's magazine-cover record is the cleanest argument in fashion right now for the proposition that the post-2020 industry still rewards a pure editorial-runway working career. She has not built a beauty brand. She has not anchored a major denim contract. She has not become a Victoria's Secret commercial face. What she has done, across roughly a decade of working at the top of the editorial register, is cover the September Vogue America 2023 issue, win the British Fashion Awards Model of the Year in 2024, and consolidate the kind of magazine portfolio that the industry uses to measure who sits at the top of the cohort.

This piece walks through that cover record specifically, the decisions that built it, and where it places Ceretti inside the contemporary supermodel framework.

The Brescia foundation and the Elite Model Look discovery

Vittoria Ceretti was born June 7, 1998, in Brescia, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, to Francesco and Federica Ceretti. The modeling career started at thirteen, when she finished as a finalist at the 2012 Elite Model Look Italia in Riva del Garda. Elite Model Management Milan signed her shortly afterward, and the broader Elite international representation followed across 2013-2014.

The early development ran through the standard Milan-based editorial circuit. Italian magazine work, smaller runway castings, and the broader Italian-and-French development cycle filled the 2013-2014 period. The 2014 Milan Fashion Week debut and the 2015 Resort 2016 Prada casting (the Miuccia Prada decision that opened the high-fashion runway gate) brought her into the major working circuit at sixteen and seventeen.

The Vogue Italia debut and the early cover years (2014-2017)

The first major cover was the September 2015 Vogue Italia "New Beginnings" issue under Franca Sozzani's editorship, shot by Steven Meisel. The Sozzani-Meisel partnership had been running the most editorially serious Italian fashion magazine since the early 1990s, and the Ceretti cover placed her inside the lineage that includes Linda Evangelista, Stella Tennant, Karen Elson, and the wider Meisel-cast new-faces cohort. The cover decision functioned as the industry green-lighting moment.

The 2016 cycle followed quickly. The Italian Vogue editorial work continued. The W Magazine September 2016 American breakout editorial under Edward Enninful (then at W) extended the working visibility into the American market. The Vogue Paris July 2017 cover under Emmanuelle Alt's editorship was the first French Vogue cover, signaling that the Paris-and-Milan editorial axis was working in parallel.

By the close of 2017 Ceretti had covered Italian Vogue, Paris Vogue, German Vogue, W Magazine, and Numéro, walked Prada, Miu Miu, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, Saint Laurent, and Givenchy at Fashion Week, and been placed on the Models.com Top 50 industry-vote ranking. The working career was structurally complete by nineteen.

For the parallel high-fashion-runway framework that ran across the same period, our Adriana Lima 90s supermodel era profile covers the historical Italian-runway-editorial template that the Ceretti career has continued.

The Karl Lagerfeld Chanel-Couture casting years (2017-2019)

The Karl Lagerfeld-led Chanel casting from 2017 onward was the editorially decisive working relationship of the early career. Lagerfeld had been running Chanel since 1983, and his casting decisions across the Chanel Couture, Métiers d'Art, and ready-to-wear cycles in the late 2010s were taken as the industry signal for which models had been formally elevated into the Chanel-Couture working roster. Ceretti walked Chanel Couture Spring 2017, Métiers d'Art Hamburg 2017, Couture Fall 2017, Couture Spring 2018, Métiers d'Art Paris-New York 2018, and the wider Chanel cycle through Lagerfeld's death in February 2019. The Virginie Viard-era Chanel casting continued the relationship into 2019-2024.

The Chanel work brought a measurable cover-portfolio bump. The 2018 cycle produced covers for Vogue Japan, Vogue Spain, Vogue Korea, Vogue Mexico, Vogue Brazil, Vogue Czechoslovakia, and the wider international Vogue circuit. The Harper's Bazaar international-edition cover cycle, the Elle international-edition cover cycle, and the Marie Claire international-edition cover cycle ran parallel.

The 2019 cycle marked her as one of the four or five working models that the editorial-cover system was using as anchor casting for the international Vogue circuit. Anok Yai, Adut Akech, Kaia Gerber, and Ceretti were the working cohort by the close of 2019.

The 2020-2022 consolidation and the personal arc

The pandemic period through 2020-2021 reduced the cover cycle across the entire industry, but Ceretti continued at a healthier rate than most peers. The September 2020 Vogue Paris cover, the continuing international Vogue cycle, and the AnOther Magazine and Document Journal independent-editorial work kept the portfolio moving.

The 2019 short marriage to Lebanese-Italian electronic-music DJ Matteo Milleri (Tale of Us) and the 2021 separation produced a parallel cultural-press cycle that ran alongside the modeling career. The brief Milleri marriage drew European fashion-press coverage but did not shift the working schedule.

The 2022 cover cycle continued. Vogue Italia February 2022, Vogue Paris September 2022, British Vogue multiple cycles, American Vogue editorial features, the W Magazine Volume 4 (Spring 2022) cover under Sara Moonves's editorship. The high-fashion editorial rotation Ceretti had been operating inside since 2017 continued without interruption.

The September 2023 American Vogue cover and the DiCaprio cycle

The single most-discussed editorial appearance of the career was the September 2023 American Vogue cover. The September issue, traditionally the largest and most commercially significant annual Vogue America issue, had been running its modern incarnation since Anna Wintour took over the magazine in 1988. The Ceretti September 2023 cover, shot by Annie Leibovitz, placed her in the lineage of working models who had carried the issue (Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Gisele Bündchen, Karlie Kloss, Joan Smalls).

The cover coincided with the public emergence of her relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio, which had begun in summer 2023 and continued across 2024-2025. The DiCaprio media overlay carried its own parallel cultural-press cycle, but the September Vogue cover decision had been finalized before the relationship surfaced publicly, on the basis of the working portfolio and the Anna Wintour-led editorial team's casting framework.

The 2024 British Fashion Awards Model of the Year

The December 2024 British Fashion Awards Model of the Year placement, voted by the industry through the British Fashion Council's insider polling, was the formal industry confirmation that the Ceretti career had reached the top of the contemporary working-supermodel cohort. The award has historically tracked the working models the industry considers the dominant face of the year. Recent winners include Adut Akech (2018-2019), Kaia Gerber (2018 New Faces), and Anok Yai (intermittent industry-vote recognition).

The 2024 award reflected the cumulative working portfolio: the September 2023 American Vogue cover, the continuing Chanel-and-Prada-and-Versace-and-Saint-Laurent-and-Givenchy runway cycle, the broader international Vogue and Harper's Bazaar cover framework, and the Models.com Industry Icon-tier placement that the broader industry-vote infrastructure had been awarding Ceretti since 2022.

The current working register (2024-2026)

The 2025 cycle has continued the consolidation. The Spring 2025 Chanel Couture under Matthieu Blazy (the post-Viard era), the Fall 2025 Saint Laurent under Anthony Vaccarello, the continuing Versace and Prada cycle, and the Vogue cover circuit have all continued. The Maison Margiela John Galliano-era Spring 2024 Couture casting and the wider Galliano-led couture cycle have anchored the haute-couture register the Ceretti career now sits inside.

The cover-portfolio totals are now substantial: more than fifty Vogue international-edition covers, the September 2023 American Vogue cover, two British Vogue covers, three Vogue Paris covers, multiple W Magazine covers, the AnOther Magazine and Document Journal independent-editorial work, and the wider international fashion-editorial circuit. The portfolio is now structurally complete in a way that places Ceretti at the top of the working contemporary supermodel cohort.

What the career teaches the industry

The Ceretti cover record carries some specific structural lessons.

First, the working career was built through the standard editorial-runway development infrastructure. The Elite Model Management agency representation, the Italian and French editorial-magazine network, the Lagerfeld-Chanel-Couture casting, and the wider international high-fashion runway and cover circuit together produced the working-supermodel record on the same terms the industry has used for thirty years. The trajectory looks structurally similar to Stella Tennant's 1990s career, Karen Elson's 2000s career, and Daria Werbowy's 2005-2015 career.

Second, the editorial-only career is still commercially sustainable at the top of the cohort. Ceretti has not built a beauty company, has not anchored a major lifestyle-product contract, and has not become a Victoria's Secret commercial face. The working portfolio is pure editorial-runway-and-luxury-campaign work. That model still pays at the top of the cohort, even as parallel peers (Bella Hadid, Hailey Bieber, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) have built parallel beauty businesses.

Third, the DiCaprio media overlay has not displaced the working calendar. The September 2023 Vogue cover was finalized before the relationship surfaced publicly. The 2024 BFA Model of the Year was voted by industry insiders on the working portfolio. The career has retained its editorial-and-runway character despite the parallel cultural-press cycle, which is itself an unusual outcome in the contemporary celebrity-and-fashion overlap.

For the parallel contemporary editorial-track careers, our Martha Hunt magazine covers profile covers the comparable American working-supermodel editorial career, and our Kendall Jenner runway career profile covers the parallel American-cohort track.

A few quick answers

Ceretti has appeared on more than fifty Vogue international-edition covers across the past decade, plus multiple W Magazine, Harper's Bazaar international-edition, Numéro, AnOther Magazine, and Document Journal covers. The September 2023 American Vogue cover is the most-discussed individual cover of the career. Magazine covers are important for models partly because the foundational editorial-cover framework anchors the working high-fashion-supermodel record (the working model who has covered American Vogue, French Vogue, Italian Vogue, and British Vogue sits in a structurally different position from one who has not), partly because the international-cover circuit drives the high-fashion-runway casting that sits downstream of the editorial portfolio, and partly because the cumulative cover record is the longest-running industry metric for who sits at the top of the working cohort. Her brand collaborations include the Chanel runway and Couture relationship from 2017 onward, the Prada runway and campaign work from 2015, the Dior, Versace, Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Valentino, and Dolce & Gabbana runway cycle, the Tiffany & Co. campaign work in 2023, and the wider French and Italian luxury-house campaign circuit.

The shorter version is that the Ceretti career is the cleanest contemporary example of the editorial-only working-supermodel trajectory still producing top-of-cohort outcomes inside the contemporary industry. For the entry tier of the same industry, our how to become a model industry insider guide covers the career-foundation work.