Richard Avedon was a man of many “firsts,” photographing Steve McQueen for the February cover of Harper’s Bazaar in 1965, a cover that would serve as the first instance in which a man was featured on the cover of a women’s fashion magazine, albeit, 60s model Jean Shrimpton does make a cameo with her bracelet-stacked arm snaked around McQueen. In 2010, GQ Australia dubbed Ryan Kwanten the Man of the Year, celebrating with a cover story  photographed by David Slijper after Avedon’s 1956 cover.

Comparison Courtesy of Igor Vander.