Title: Opinion | Vogue’s Kamala Harris cover shows that diminishing powerful Black women is still in fashion - The Washington Post
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Vogue’s Kamala Harris cover shows that diminishing powerful Black women is still in fashion

Opinion: Vogue’s Kamala Harris cover shows that diminishing powerful Black women is still in fashion
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Content: She looks pretty. It’s a much better photograph; it comes as no surprise that her team reportedly preferred it. But in the world of fashion, print cover choices matter. And in a world where strong Black women are often maligned as intimidating and unfeminine, the image Vogue chose reduced Harris just as she is taking her rightful place at the heights of American power. It’s frankly shocking that this is the direction the magazine went. Considering that Vogue, and the fashion industry as a whole, came under fire in 2020 for lacking diversity, one would think that major publications would go above and beyond to get Harris and her historic ascension right. Advertisement
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Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour spoke to journalist Kara Swisher and explained that “all of us felt very, very strongly that the less formal portrait of the Vice-President-elect really reflected the moment we were living in” and that “a much less formal picture, something that was very, very accessible, and approachable, and real, really reflected the hallmark of the Biden-Harris campaign.” I wonder if she watched the same campaign I did. The key to the Biden-Harris victory was not “approachability;”