Several of the articles I looked at discussed a lot of issues still existing in the fashion industry with diversity. One of these was an article from The Independent, which described how the most popular international magazines only had people of color on the covers 22% of the time in the last decade. This statistic was gathered by counting issues in the most important month of women's fashion magazines, September. This important month was interesting to find out about. It may even affect our decisions when considering which issues we will be doing for our magazine. We were considering doing issues based on seasons, but we may consider doing monthly issues.
Another statistic on this same article informed me that in the last decade, non-white faces have been on the cover of only one out of every five covers. And when Beyonce was on the September issue of Vogue in 2015 she talked about this issue in representation. When she entered the industry, she was told it would be difficult for her to get on magazine covers because of her race. This is important when considering what models we will photograph for our own fashion magazine. We want to be forward and bring a more diverse selection of models to light.
However, there were important strides being made in the fashion magazine industry in 2018 in regards to diversity. For example, The Glowup site provided a statistic on fashion magazines in the United States. In the past five years, they estimated that about 48.4% of covers of important fashion magazines included people of color. There was also a 32.3% increase in people of color on the September issue from 2017 to 2018. However, there is still important work to be done to display more diversity in fashion magazines on the international level. By possibly addressing these strides and issues with diversity in our magazine, we could be taking an interesting perspective on the fashion industry.
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