While we can appreciate the unique charms of Julie (Miss January), Alyssa (March) and Irina (May), it’s cover girl Kate Upton who really caught our eye this year. And it turns out we’re not alone. Soon after the issue hit the newsstands, the curvaceous model danced something called the ‘Cat Daddy’ in a bikini for famously raunchy photographer Terry Richardson in a bodaciously sexy video that went so viral even Anna Wintour got wind of it and hustled Kate for a US Vogue shoot. Next on the swimwear siren’s dizzy ascent was dressing up as Brigitte Bardot for V, then sucking on an ice lolly for GQ, gracing the cover of Carine Roitfeld’s very first CR Fashion Book, and starring in The Three Stooges remake (which we’ll happily forgive her for). We love the way this girl-next-door, who once claimed: ‘When I lived in Florida, the swimsuit was my key wardrobe piece’, went from trash to fash in a matter of months, but most of all we love her November Vogue Italia cover, which lets those enormous… diamonds really sparkle.
