Recently, Vogue shot an editorial for their December issue, styled by my favorite creative head, Grace Coddington, which showcases a new outlook on beauty. It features models of various Asian ethnicities such as Liu Wen, Du Juan, and Tao Okamoto. I am in love with this spread not so much for the style per se but rather the new meaning it gives to the traditional and often erroneous definition of beauty in our world.
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Although this change is refreshing, I have to agree with NY mag columnist James Lim that "it always seems easier for magazines to lump the girls in a feature like this, feel like the acknowledgment has been made, and then revert back to their usual ultra-white mix of models in subsequent issues. It will be interesting to see if and how Vogue will support these statements in forthcoming issues." Hopefully this isn't a one-time spread and it will be the leading force in diversifying the spectrum of skin colors seen on the runways and magazine covers.
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