The noise about Beyonce on Vogue’s prestigious September cover is just not dying down. The world and the web are going on about how the singer has redefined race, womanhood, motherhood and the woman’s body, especially the region she calls FUPA, just by naming it.

Beyonce, in fact, is being credited with trying, with her celebrity appeal, to bring acceptance for a woman’s body, as it is naturally. She has also got many firsts with her Vogue piece: instead of the usual interview, Vogue features her in a first-person “as told to”. Beyonce allowed the 23-year-old  Tyler Mitchell to shoot her. Mitchell is the first person of African origin to do a Vogue cover.

On the count of pure fashion too, Beyonce scores high. Her looks, which acknowledge her origin and blend with her personality, take the help of the best of labels: she wears a gold Valentino cruise dress, an elaborate Dior cruise gown and a white suit from Wales Bonner. She wears a colourful ruffled dress by Alexander McQueen on an alternate cover.

The tour de force, however, is the Gucci wedding dress on the main cover.

It is a ruffled Victorian costume Gucci’s cruise collection. With the dress, Beyonce wears a Lynn Ban headpiece and a Rebel Rebel floral headdress, which, upturned, could have been a bouquet of flowers. The dress had appeared in a collection displayed at a cemetery in May this year: at the Alyscamps in Arles, the Roman necropolis, which became a Christian cemetery and is now a UNESCO World Heritage. At the cemetery, The Bride had appeared last, wearing this soft, white, cascading piece.