Controversial Fashion Magazines

“Vogue is a fashion magazine, and a fashion magazine is about change,” Anna Wintour. Imagine a girl walking down the crowded streets, when she suddenly see a newsstand filled to the brim with brand new magazines. She sees poking out amongst the chaos the beautiful colors of the cover of Vogue. She feels the excitement as she opens up the magazine and feels the glossy pages. She instantly buys it and races home to read it. She finds that it is not just a fashion bible it is a beacon for controversy. Vogue causes her to start thinking about things that she has never thought of before and focus on cultural issues. She realizes that, as one of the world’s most influential mediums for promoting social commentary, Vogue has been on the front lines fostering controversy over issues such as civil rights, gender equality, and critical social and cultural issues of the time. Vogue has taken on controversial topics like civil rights. Most magazines were scared to publish such controversial articles, but not Vogue. Many of some of the fashion's greatest fads have come from African American culture. Fashion magazines would send people out to primarily black areas to get ideas for new fashion trends. For example, Hot Pants in the 1970’s came from what women would wear in Harlem (Wilson). They first started by publishing articles on the
This is largely due to the movie The Devil Wears Prada. The movie was written by her by her former assistant and the character Miranda Priestly is said to be based on Anna Wintour. Wintour is crude and hard on her workers, but it pushes them that much farther. Women have to work ten times harder than men to get somewhere and she prepares them for that. Wintour makes her workers dress to the nines, but they work for a fashion empire and they should. While some may take her as cold, many see her hard working, driven and working to push the next generation (Devil Wears Prada a True