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It happens every year: Our ever-growing pile of fashion magazines inches higher with each passing month, and by the time December rolls around, we can barely sift through the hundreds of stylish images we bookmarked for inspiration. 2011 was no exception, and in a year that celebrated retro supermodels, androgyny, vivid colors, and plenty of experimentation in the beauty department, choosing our favorites was particularly difficult. The best editorials of the year ran the gamut from huge ensemble casts of blue-chip models styled by greats like Katie Grand and Carine Roitfeld, to intimate, one-on-one portraits of our favorite girls like Lindsey Wixson and Daria Werbowy. The acid brights that dominated the spring collections allowed for some pretty trippy trend stories last season, but the fall glossies featured much moodier imagery, with a number of gorgeous spreads in black and white. Here are the editorials from 2011 that will stay tacked up on our walls and fill our inspiration boards well into the new year—and beyond.

We started to see a different side of Karlie Kloss when she stripped for Vogue Italia's December issue (and ignited an internet shitstorm of eating disorder and photoshopping accusations). Now, she's showing us even more of that side (both literally and figuratively) in the latest issue of Numero. (This is NSFW, by the way)

Abbey Love: Numero's December cover features a striking image of Abbey Lee Kershaw shot by Miguel Reveriego. Charlotte Gainsbourg and an Irving Penn