Socially Conscious Style Is on the Rise
- Juana Colon posted in Design, Living and Fashion
The good news and bad news is that socially conscious fashion is no longer news. It’s undeniably wonderful that so many designers are paying closer attention to how, where, and by whom things are made.
Archival Prints: The September Issues
In anticipation of the largest Vogue September issue to date, here are 25 of their favorite covers including the very first from 1893.
In our latest look at what’s ethical in fashion, lifestyle editor Amanda Hess talks about Vogue’s recent policy on not showing models 16 and under any longer, and why that might not be quite good enough:
Condé Nast’s pledge fails to distinguish between the real work of a fashion shoot and the fantasy images that result from it. Which model “appears to have an eating disorder”? The one who must actually starve herself to fit into a sample size 0? Or the naturally thin one whose body type—replicated over and over and over again in Vogue’s advertisements, runway coverage, and editorials—is nevertheless dangerous to the young women who will starve themselves to get as small as she is? Voguedoesn’t say.
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