Catastro-Vogue

For decades, Vogue magazine has been the bible for some fashion lovers. Even its first edition uses the picture of Gibson Girls, which shows the beauty of women of that time. Then Anna Wintour came as its Editor In-Chief and changed a lot of things. The cover, for example, Wintour was the one who came up with the idea of using celebrity as the cover of a fashion magazine. There is also Grace Coddington, the fahion editor of Vogue who came up with ideas of the photoshoots. For some years I’ve known Vogue magazine but honestly it’s not my kind of bible, because it’s actually for women or people who interested in women’s fashion. I know the history of it and how it impacts women in my country. And like everyone, the latest American Vogue cover bothers me.

The cover of American Vogue

The cover is an okay, but I’m not quite sure why Anna came up with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. I’ve been thinking that Vogue is for the true fashion, and actually when I discovered Vogue with Hillary as the cover I still understand that and it’s not only about political reasons. Now I’m still wondering why they chose KimYe. It’s not like I see them as the main problem. They also put the word ‘selfie’ and a hashtag (that is known for Twitter) on the cover. On Twitter there are some people who already stated that they’re going to stop their subscription including celebrity Sarah Michelle Gellar. Then I was curious and tried to search hashtag ‘#annawintour’ on Intagram. The result surprised me. There are a lot of people posted the old ‘Save Anna’ logo with red cross above it. It’s a mess. There’s also an Instagram account called ‘WintourIsOver’ and they posted several photos and spreading the hashtag ‘#wintourisover’, and hey, they actually also have a website named wintourisover.com.

An Instagram account spreading rumor about Anna

I don’t hate Anna or Grace, actually they’re my inspiration and also the reason why I’m still into fashion. I just don’t understand. There’s a possibility that the team came up with a fresh idea about including today’s trends in social media and including people who are talked about. But honestly Vogue has a different level and they could choose better people and better words for the headlines. Compared to the British and France, which have a good choice on the cover, the American one is the worst. The French still has Cameron Russel and the British has Nigella Lawson on the cover.

The cover of Bitish Vogue

The cover of France Vogue

I hope they didn’t jump into business-strategy crap and just tried to sell more copies. It’s truly not a classy way to do that. I hope we can see the end of this catastro-Vogue.