Here are some of the most appealing covers for January 2010, some of which are trend explicit. There’s Abbey Lee Kershaw’s future warrior for Numero. Lara espousal nakedness in fashion for Love Magazine. Then there are those that are simply remarkable like the ethereal beauty of Natasha Poly on the cover Russian Vogue or the burst of color featured on Vogue China with Kendra Spears. As always there is a absolute bevy of celebrity covers from an almost unrecognizable Jennifer Garner on W to a topless Rihanna for German GQ and even strangely enough Courtney Love appearing Dazed and Confused.

So what will be our favorite this month? I petitioned hard for Lily Cole’s Elle Canada cover. I argued that redheads for January 2010 were amongst our 2010 hair trends for women. I was though quickly over-ruled for showing favoritism and accord on another cover was reached. To find out which it was keep reading after the jump.

At the end we couldn’t pass up the chance to showcase Lara Stone in her full amazing glory, after all she was one of our top 10 models for 2009. The shot taken by Mert and Marcus is a wonderful homage to the great Helmut Newton, and we’re sure if he were alive today he would be very happy to have lenses it himself.