it's the year of the dragon and the i-d pre spring issue is all about celebrating the diversity of beauties in china! one of china's most popular photographers, chen man, photographed 12 different covers for the issue, 8 of those covers being online exclusives. there are 9 newsstand covers in total, with the other 5 being of lara stone, stella tennant, lara mullen and matt ardell, dylan riley and victoria beckham.
other than chen man there are a bevy of other photographers on board including hedi slimane and sølve sundsbø. the chinese covers feature gorgeous colourful make-up by m.a.c's director of make-up artistry, terry barber and styling by lucia liu.
i-d's fashion director, charlotte stockdale styles 2 of the other covers, as well as jonathan kaye and sarah richardson. the theme of the issue is "whatever the weather" and will be on newsstands on the 9th of february.
all images thanks to i-d magazine.
read more to see all of the covers.