Who appeared on the cover of "Vanity Fair" shaving KD Lang?

Cindy Crawford appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair shaving k.d. lang. The famous image was published on the August 1993 cover, showing the supermodel in a corset and boots while lang sat in a barber chair with a straight razor near her face.

Photographed by Herb Ritts, the cover became one of the most recognizable magazine images of the 1990s. It combined Crawford’s status as a mainstream fashion icon with lang’s openly lesbian public identity at a time when queer visibility in major American media remained unusual and often controversial. The image was provocative without being a conventional beauty portrait, and it helped make the issue a major pop-culture reference point.

The cover is sometimes remembered simply as a Cindy Crawford fashion photograph, but lang was the subject of the accompanying feature and the person in the barber chair. Lang later connected the staging to the French film Le Mari de la Coiffeuse. Crawford and lang were both central to the image, yet Crawford is the canonical answer to the question because she is the person doing the shaving.