Last year, Vogue’s parent company Condé Nast lost roughly $120 million, and the magazine’s younger sibling, Teen Vogue, ditched print operations in favor of internet-only digital covers. Vogue may be hiring women of many races, but are they representing women of all shades? ( Vogue did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)Ĭovers are also affected by forces you can’t see. To investigate this, we looked at the covers of Vogue magazine, a bastion of fashion that has been reporting on and setting trends for over a century. So even though racial and ethnic diversity in fashion and the media is improving, dark-skinned women still aren’t getting the representation they deserve. In the same way that white women will have an easier time than women of color, light-skinned women of color will have an easier time than dark-skinned women of color. It’s the idea that, for people of color, lighter skin is more desirable. Lupita was talking about a facet of racism called colorism. For most of her childhood, she saw her dark, “night-shaded” complexion as “an obstacle to overcome.” In 2014, Lupita Nyong'o, a Mexican-Kenyan actress and model, revealed that she used to pray for lighter skin. We looked at 19 years of covers to find how Vogue represents women of all shades
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