Title: Chrissy Teigen's Cover for Vogue Thailand Is Extra Special: "I Am SO PROUD to Be Thai"
Headings: Chrissy Teigen's Cover for Vogue Thailand Is Extra Special: "I Am SO PROUD to Be Thai"
Chrissy Teigen's Cover for Vogue Thailand Is Extra Special: "I Am SO PROUD to Be Thai"
Content: Teigen has often spoken about her heritage, sharing traditions and photos of her mother (who has her own enviable Instagram at @pepperthai2 and recently shared a photo of Teigen's new cover). Teigen's new cover is special indeed — seeing as so many international magazines fail to spotlight models from their own countries or cultures. According to the Fashion Spot 's 2014 Diversity Report, Vogue Japan only featured women of color three times out of 14 covers that year, and only one was of Japanese descent. Vogue Korea had similar numbers, while about half of Vogue China 's cover models in 2014 were Asian. Meanwhile, Harper's Bazaar Japan didn't appear to have any Asian models on its covers this year. In some cases, the predominance of white Western faces on international magazine covers can simply be blamed on "sharing" between magazines. It's more efficient use pre-existing photos for new covers, like when Kate Moss' May 2011 cover shot for Vogue Japan ended up on the cover of Marie Claire Australia in November 2011, or when Carey Mulligan's October 2010 Vogue cover photo was used to cover German Glamour in December 2010 and French Elle in November 2011. Vogue Japan/Harper's Bazaar Japan
But the lack of Asian faces on Asian magazine covers is also a sign of the dominance of certain beauty ideals — certain models, certain faces, certain skin tones — that emerge from the west and travel east. It's no coincidence that plastic surgery booms in countries like South Korea and China see women seeking specific beauty ideals. "The Chinese and Korean patients tell me that they want to have faces like Americans," Dr. Kim Byung-gun, a top plastic surgeon in Seoul, told CNN. "