It’s Friday, and publicists are scrambling–but not for the predictable reasons like, say, the upcoming show season. They are busy pulling samples for a weekend Vanity Fair shoot featuring Angelina Jolie. According to industry sources, the actress will appear on the magazine’s August 2010 cover. It is not clear if Brad Pitt or any members of the Jolie-Pitt brood will appear alongside her.

This is far from the first time Jolie has figured prominently in Graydon Carter’s glossy. In July 2008, the lower fifth of Vanity Fair’s cover consisted mostly of her cleavage. In April 2009, a VF.com poll anointed Jolie the most beautiful woman in the world. Jolie’s first Vanity Fair cover was the June 2005 issue, which was accompanied by the coverline “Hollywood’s wild child grows up–just a little! Angelina Jolie speaks out on Brad and Jen, dating a woman, and sex as a single mom…”

Jolie tends to favor diaphanous nude gowns for her Vanity Fair covers, so no doubt the Versaces and Max Azrias of this world are busy culling together samples. Vanity Fair declines to comment on stories that are currently in development.

Source: Fashion Week Daily