Topic: Vogue

Shocking! Vogue Is Very Sorry For Already Sucking At Their Own Health Initiative

Remember back in May, when Vogue got on its body positive, couture high horse and announced the Health Initiative? Those were wild and optimistic times. But because nothing gold can stay (or, possibly, because everyone knew there wasn’t a chance in Hell that the publishing powerhouse would actually stick to its self-esteem-promoting guns), Vogue has already had to issue an apology for breaking one of their own rules, not once, but twice. Someone hand me some smelling salts, because the shock has caused me to become faint. More »

Photoshop Fail: Vogue China Removes Entire Leg, Continues To Suck At Body Positivity

Apparently, Vogue China’s idea of celebrating the female form and trying to be ambassadors for positive body image is removing a model’s leg. The whole let. But let’s give them the benefit of the doubt; maybe the leg in question just had a really long, hard day and was looking like it had an eating disorder, so the photo editors of Vogue China just told it to go home. More »

Surprise! Vogue’s ‘Health Initiative’ Covers Aren’t So Body Positive

In honor of their new Health Initiative (i.e. to stop knowingly featuring anorexic models), all June issues of Vogue were themed around healthy living—a valiant effort that you’d have no idea they were making, judging by the thin supermodels covering all but two of their 19 international editions. More »

Vogue’s Olympic Issue: Celebrating Male Athletes and Female…Models

Vogue‘s June issue is a special Olympic-themed issue, devoted to celebrating the athletes with shoots like Annie Leibowitz‘s “Country Strong” and Bruce Weber‘s “Wonder Women.” But from the cover–which features Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte flanked by Hope Solo and Serena Williams—to the shoots, it’s hard not to notice how strongly the issue glorifies male athletes…and female models. Not only are the female athletes given far less ink (each male athlete gets two photos, while the female athletes each get one), but the photos chosen for the magazine practically try to hide them beneath giant props and vast expanses of sky, while model Karlie Kloss gets far more attention for posing languidly beside America’s top male Olympic hopefuls in designer clothing. More »

Dear Vogue: Please Actually Become “Ambassadors For Healthy Body Image”

It’s no secret that Vogue hasn’t exactly been a leader in the effort toward pushing for more body-positive, healthy portrayals of the female body in the media and fashion industry; though, perhaps more frustrating than the absence of effort has been the fashion icon’s piecemeal attempts to do good, without actually doing anything significant. But today, New York Magazine reports, all of Vogue‘s 19 international editions have banded together under something called the “Health Initiative.” I really, really want to believe that this is going to matter–but you’ll forgive me if I’m skeptical. More »

Dear Vogue, I Wish I Could See Adele’s Chin

Adele looks great on the cover of Vogue‘s March issue. But she pretty much always looks gorgeous to me, which is why I just really wish that Vogue would let me see her chin… and her real body, while they’re at it. Some are giving Anna Wintour props for “showing more than just a close-up of her face” on the cover, and marveling at how it looks like Adele lost weight. I’m sorry, but no: She just got a body and face by photoshop which, given how much pride she takes in how she looks, I’m guessing she didn’t really want. And if you’re listening, Vogue, neither do I. More »

Italian Vogue’s Oil Spill Fashion Shoot: Tacky or Poignant?

Fashion and the Gulf oil spill are no strangers: There are plenty of t-shirts and clothing being sold to benefit cleanup efforts and relief aid. But Italian Vogue‘s recent oil spill fashion shoot, shot by American photographer Steven Meisel, bridges … More »

Kristen McMenamy In Vogue: Finally, A Grey-Tressed Model We Can Look Up To

Aside from the occasional Land’s End catalog spread, grey-haired models are rarely put anywhere near a styled fashion shoot, so our jaws dropped when we saw 43-year-old model Kristen McMenamy proudly flaunting her silver grey locks in the August issue … More »

10 Best of TheGloss Last Week: Sarah Jessica Parker, Sofia Vergara, and Ian McKellen

Our 10 favorite posts of last week from TheGloss, our sister site (including last-minute Mother’s Day gift ideas, you slacker!) 1. 10 Mother’s Day Presents for Under $10 (or Keep Them for Yourself) 2. Poll: How Long Should You Wait … More »

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15 Trailblazing Women That Vogue Forgot: Huffington Post reminds us of 15 prototypical American women who aren’t included in Vogue‘s “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity” exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.