Baby's first Vogue shoot! Behind the scenes video reveals North West joins parents Kim Kardashian and Kanye West in fashion bible
Kim Kardashian may have had to wait 33 years for her first US Vogue photo shoot but her daughter North West achieved it at the age of just eight months.
The celebrity tot joined her mother Kim and father Kanye West as they shot a series of photographs for the fashion bible with famed photographer Annie Leibovitz and although she did not make the cover, North will appear inside the magazine's April edition.
However, fans of the gorgeous baby won't have to wait that long to see her as an adorable behind-the-scenes video shows her being cradled by her reality star mother and fussed over by her rapper father as they get to work shooting for Anna Wintour's publication.
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Move over mama: Kim Kardashian might have had to wait 33 years for her US Vogue cover but her daughter North West made her way into the magazine at the age of just eight months
And North has clearly inherited some posing skills from her famous parents, looking adorable throughout the video.
The footage shows Kim cradling the couple's daughter as smitten Kanye looks down at his two girls.
Another section features Kanye planting a kiss on the baby's head while sitting in a private jet.
Other snippets include Kim kissing baby North and the couple posing on the jet to the strains of Kanye's song Bound 2 - the same track that features Kim in the music video.
Kim is said to have been desperate to make the front cover of Vogue, ensuring she schmoozed editor Wintour at last year's Met Ball with her fiancé West.
Star power: Baby North is already featured in Vogue before her first birthday
Daddy's girl: Kanye plants a kiss on his bouncing baby's head while sitting on a plane in the video
The reality star wears a white
strapless Lanvin wedding gown for the shoot, with Kanye stands behind her in a dark suit and shirt with his arms wrapped around her waist.
Thrilled Kim tweeted that her appearance was a 'dream come true' on Friday when the cover was released on the magazine's website.
'This
is such a dream come true!!! Thank you @VogueMagazine for this cover! O
M GGGGGG!!! I can't even breath!' (sic) she tweeted.
Cover stars: Kim and Kanye have finally made the front cover of U.S. Vogue, appearing on the front of the April edition
Kanye simply added on his Twitter page: 'Thank you' with a link to the cover on the Vogue website.
For the cover shot, Kim's
hair is pulled into a chic chignon teamed with smoky eye
make-up and nude lipstick.
Her Lorraine Schwartz-designed 15-carat diamond engagement ring is her only piece of jewellery.
I can't even breathe: Kim Kardashian tweeted her excitement as the cover was released on Friday
Living the high life: Kim and Kanye's jet setting adventures are explored in the photographs
In love: The video is set to Kanye's controversial video Bound 2 in which Kim appears
The cover line introduces the piece as:
'Kim & Kanye Their fashionable life and surreal times. #worldsmosttalkedaboutcouple.'
It is apparently the first time a hashtag has been used on the Vogue cover and refers to Kim's huge social media presence - she has more than 20 million Twitter followers.
Bride-to-be Kim sticks to a white wardrobe for the video.
She is seen looking particularly striking while walking hand-in-hand with Kanye in a white feathered Alexander McQueen gown.
The dramatic dress gets another appearance when Kim lies down with her back on a car with Kanye leaning in for an embrace.
Dramatic scenes: In one snapshot, Kim sports a ruffled white dress, laying back against a car, while Kanye stands in front of her
Swan like: Kim's Vogue wardrobe was mainly in white, with one particularly feathered dress with cinched in waist
The photographs were taken by famed celebrity photographer Leibovitz, who has captured everybody from Queen Elizabeth II to John Lennon, Barack Obama and Lady Gaga.
In her editor's letter, Anna Wintour explained the thinking behind her decision to so prominently feature a reality star who found first found fame through a sex tape.
'Part of the pleasure of editing Vogue, one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature those who define the culture at any given moment, who stir things up, whose presence in the world shapes the way it looks and influences the way we see it,' she wrote.
Smouldering: The couple showed how much they've perfected their pouts
No pressure: Vogue editor Anna Wintour denied that Kanye had 'begged' her to put he and Kim on the Vogue cover
Simple but effective: Kanye tweeted 'thank you' with a link to the magazine's website
'I think we can all agree on the fact that that role is currently being played by Kim and Kanye to a T. (Or perhaps that should be to a K?)'
And Wintour denied reports she had been put under pressure by Kanye to put his fiancée on the front of the legendary magazine.
She added: 'As for the cover, my opinion is that it is both charming and touching, and it was, I should add, entirely our idea to do it; you may have read that Kanye begged me to put his fiancée on Vogue’s cover. He did nothing of the sort.
New friends: Wintour (left) in the audience of a Kanye West concert last November with Kim (right) and mother Kris Jenner
'The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn’t true.'
Wintour's
decision to give the couple her stamp of approval was seen by many die-hard
fashionistas as controversial. But the British-born editor cited the
couple's fame, talent and influence as reason enough to feature them in
her pages.
'There’s barely a strand of the modern
media that the Kardashian Wests haven’t been able to master, and for
good reason,' she wrote.
'Kanye is an amazing performer and cultural provocateur, while Kim, through her strength of character, has created a place for herself in the glare of the world’s spotlight, and it takes real guts to do that.'
Proud sister: Khloe tweeted a picture of the cover with several hashtags including Kim's nickname Kiki
Major! Kendall Jenner also weighed in, calling the cover 'gorgeous', a post which was retweeted by her younger sister Kylie
Mother's pride: Kris Jenner tweeted how she is 'so proud of you two' in her tweet
Meanwhile, rumours are circulating that Vogue had originally planned to feature supermodel Kate Upton on the front cover, not Kimye.
E! Online reported that the information came from a source.
However, the magazine's communications director denied the rumour, telling E!: 'We are all huge supporters of Kate here at Vogue and have been thrilled to feature her numerous times in the past year, both on the cover and inside the magazine.
'There was never a cover commitment made to Kate.'
The beautiful blonde was featured inside the issue in a number of gorgeous gowns.
Life in the spotlight: Kim, pictured earlier this week, has found herself one of the most famous women in the U.S.
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Little Norie looks uncomfortable in these pics, almost like she's thinking "who are these people?" She spends so little time with them they must seem like total stranger to her.
Everyone's carrying on like Kim was awarded the Nobel Peace price. It's a MAGAZINE COVER for God's sake, and all this fuss about it is just going to sell more issues.
Kaz, London, 22/03/2014 11:00 Oh stop being so EARNEST. There is so much wrong with your post but you're so busy trying to come across an an enlightened being that you fail to see it, but the fact that YOU'RE bringing the missing Malaysian jet and its passengers into this is extremely crass.
God I think people should get over them selfs, what's wrong with the picture I think it is gorgeous.
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Marcy, America, 18 hours ago
Say what you will about her, but she's probably better looking than at least 90% of the posters here, and has more money than many of you will ever dream of making. If you are going to criticize how she obtained her money and fame, I'd love to know how the majority of YOU make your money. She used what she had (whether you like what she used or not) to obtain her dreams, and she certainly did not need your approval to achieve anything. Nor does she care what you think of her...we all are like gnats in the wind as far as she is concerned! Rather than criticizing her, her partner, her choices, or her family maybe you should go look at yourselves in the mirror and look at your own pathetic little lives: I'm sure THAT all probably needs way more fixing.