Title: Ashley Graham is the First Plus-Size Model on the Cover of Vogue U.S. – WWD
Headings: Ashley Graham Becomes First ‘Plus-Size’ Model to Grace Vogue Cover
Ashley Graham Becomes First ‘Plus-Size’ Model to Grace Vogue Cover
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Content: Ashley Graham is the First Plus-Size Model on the Cover of Vogue U.S. – WWD
Ashley Graham Becomes First ‘Plus-Size’ Model to Grace Vogue Cover
By Sophia Chabbott on February 9, 2017
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Ashley Graham (second from left) is the first-ever plus-size model to cover American Vogue. With a cadre of Insta-famous runway models gracing its March cover (and yes, Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid are front and center), it was easy to overlook that American Vogue made major history on Wednesday. Seven major models, including Liu Wen, Imaan Hammam, Adwa Aboah, Vittoria Ceretti, also posed for the cover wearing matching black Prada turtlenecks and high-waisted bikini briefs, which was released on Wednesday. Most notably among them, Ashley Graham. The 29-year-old model and self-proclaimed body activist is the first plus-size model to grace the cover of the 125-year-old magazine. And while Graham herself has stated that she doesn’t like the term “plus-size”, she has been a significant influence of shaping the way fashion perceives body types that aren’t of the 5’11” size 00 variety, since her 2015 cover of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit issue . “Designers aren’t the only ones pushing fashion in an all-embracing direction, ” said Vogue writer Maya Singer in the issue’s cover story, celebrating the seven models who are “democratizing fashion.” More from the issue, which hits newsstands on Feb. 21: For years, Graham, 29, had been told that certain dreams were out of reach for ‘plus-size’ models like her. Landing the cover of Vogue, for example.