Magazine Publishers of America cover awards, second place 2006: best fashion cover:

In the fall of 2005, front-page tabloid pictures of Kate Moss allegedly snorting cocaine left the fashion industry reeling. Major houses panicked and abruptly ended contracts with the model. W, however, planned a Kate Moss November cover, and the result was a Mario Sorrenti portrait of the luminous icon dressed in elegant Calvin Klein, hot off the spring runway. Ws decision was either influential or prescientafter the initial uproar, Moss went on to enjoy what may be her most lucrative year.