Put Kim Kardashian on Vogue cover! Kanye West 'lobbies Anna Wintour over lunch to get girlfriend in magazine'

As an occasional fashion designer and mogul, Kanye West is under no illusions as to the importance of exposure in U.S. Vogue.

And it seems the 36-year-old rapper is still determined to persuade fearsome editor Anna Wintour to put his girlfriend Kim Kardashian on the cover.

Page Six reports that Kanye and Anna were spotted lunching at the Beverly Hills Hotel's Polo Lounge on Friday afternoon with the rapper in particularly animated form.

Fast friends: Anna Wintour, pictured with Kanye West in 2010, was spotted having lunch with the star on Friday where it was reported 'he continued to lobby the star to put Kim Kardashian on the cover of Vogue

'They were in a corner booth, very intense,' an onlooker told the New York Post column. 'He was talking nonstop. She did not get a word in edgewise.'

According to Radar, Kanye's long term dream is to persuade Wintour to put his reality star fiancé on the cover of Vogue 'wearing her wedding dress.'

The controversial rapper famously complained about Kim's omission from the pages of the fashion bible in an interview with Ryan Seacrest last year.

She's in fashion: Kim, pictured in a white long sleeved crop top and skirt ensemble after dinner at  Mr Chow in Beverly Hills on Sunday

In the same row: Kim and mother Kris Jenner were pictured sitting along from Wintour at a Kanye West concert last November

Curtains for Kim: Kardashian sported this widely derided outfit to last year's Met Ball partly organised by Wintour, but the editor still hasn't put her in Vogue

'There's no way Kim Kardashian shouldn't be on the cover of Vogue,' he said.  'She's like the most intriguing woman right now. She's got Barbara Walters calling her like everyday.'

And bizarrely he claimed the reason Kim was more influential that Michelle Obama, was because the First Lady could not share a bikini picture like Kim's infamous bottom-baring pose in a white swimsuit.

'No one is looking at what [Barack Obama] is wearing. Michelle Obama cannot Instagram a [bikini] pic like what my girl Instagrammed the other day,' he said.

Kim herself has attempted to make subtle inroads into being taken seriously as a fashionista, even joining Kanye at the Wintour-organised Met Ball last year, sporting a widely derided Givenchy gown with matching gloves

But despite Kanye's protestations,Wintour, who has been editor of Vogue since 1988, remains unmoved.

'Anna has remained typically aloof to Kanye’s constant advances and offers,' a source told Radar.

However, Kim has managed to make it onto the cover of former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld's magazine CR Fashion Book, much to Kanye's delight.

'Carine Roitfeld supports my girl. That's a breakthrough,' he explained to Seacrest. 'There's a wall of classism that we are breaking through.'

Style queens: Michelle Obama has graced two Vogue covers and gained plaudits for her style as First Lady, while Kim, seen on the cover of CR fashion Book has been snubbed by editor Anna Wintour