Ah, the good old days. It’s hard not to be nostalgic when flipping through the new coffee table book Paris Vogue Covers 1920-2009. As you go back in time, the covers get dreamier, more cinematic. Some don’t feature what we consider today to be a no-brainer—a model looking directly into camera. In the past, a model’s face might be obscured by a hat, or the cover might feature a film director or work of art commissioned to Dali. It was about a feeling. Today, inevitably, it is about stars. English words have crept onto the covers, reflecting the increasing Americanization of the magazine’s cultural coverage.  Still, the book is a fascinating document of the shifts in what constituted the high life and what is considered beautiful—pale, flat-chested women in the 20s, bronzed glamazons in the ‘80s. The only modern covers that appealed to me were ones such as this, with Vanessa Paradis, that are clearly meant to evoke the stylistic and photographic looks of the past.