On Jezebel: Harper’s Bazaar Didn’t Use Any Models of Color on their Covers This Year.

Jezebel has their finger on the pulse of diversity in fashion, and recently published a piece on the lack of models of color featured on glossies like Harper’s Bazaar U.S. and U.K., Vogue U.K., Vogue Netherlands, Vogue Paris, Vogue Ukraine, Vogue Russia, Teen Vogue, Numéro, LOVE, and Porter.



The say, “Surprise surprise, the fashion industry and its various outlets are still dominated by white models! We all know that while magazines are more than comfortable appropriating other cultures and showcasing them out of context on white models, for some reason it has a lot of difficulty embracing actual diversity.”

They go on to say, “The Fashion Spot surveyed 44 major print publications, and found that of the 611 total covers, white models (referring to anyone on the cover, not necessarily a model by profession) were featured on 567 of them, while models of color (“categorized as those who appear to be nonwhite or of mixed backgrounds”) only appeared on 119 covers.”

Hmm…this is becoming all too predictable. Racism just seems to rear its ugly head everywhere: from politics to fashion and the media we consume.

We’ve come so far, yet have so far to go. So what’s the solution?
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