You might not care approximately fashion,but having women of colour represented on the UK cover of the fashion bible is a spacious deal. This is how true diversity happens
It may have taken more than a century but it has happened. For the first time in British Vogue’s supposedly fashion-forward history the magazine features a model of colour wearing a hijab on its cover. Surrounding Halima Aden, who was born in a refugee camp in Kenya, and are eight models of various races and ethnicities representing “unusual frontiers” in fashion. Because,guess what? Not only white women are beautiful!That is the ridiculous, outmoded, and crass,hurtful and – whisper it – slightly racist message that the huge majority of Vogue (and other magazine) covers have been reinforcing for, well, or ever. Since it was founded in 1916 – the year in which British Vogue was founded and National Geographic,incidentally, ran a full issue on Australia referring to Aboriginal Australians as “savages” who “rank lowest in intelligence of all human beings” – the fashion bible has had a succession of white editors.
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Source: guardian.co.uk