I understand your point of view, and I don't like cultural appropriation more than you do. But it's also a dangerous path, when we start pushing it too far, too fast, when our view on it isn't subtle enough. Got to take every case as a unique one, unless we talk about blatant cheap parody of another culture.
We also need to remember cultures, every culture nowadays, evolve. Just as languages. Just as how they are perceived by people originally from these or by others who are just discovering it.
When some european painters discovered african art for example (and it's just a single example among several other "influences"), I can't doubt some of them, many actually, were genuinely impressed and sincerely fell in love with what they saw. Even though they sort of stole the soul of that art. And meanwhile exbitions of real african art weren't taken seriously back then, just considered as some curios. And we're just talking about a few pieces of art here, we all know how much worse it went... For centuries, through centuries.
As a painter myself, drawing or painting on a daily basis, I'm often asking myself the question why there aren't more people of color among my artworks, mainly focused on characters/human beings. Perhaps I don't feel legit (enough) to do so. Unless I'm willing to portray someone beautiful (like in some "fashion" series I did) but that remains just some aesthetic choice, there would be a lack of feelings, of life experience in them. BUT... I don't expect every creative mind to follow the same path. What may be right in book, can be wrong in someone else's. And doing things only with good intentions never made art better, sometimes it took the opposite path... for the worse/worst...
So, yes, I partly agree with you. And it goes far beyond cultural appropriation (in terms of geographical areas etc.). Within the same country, or the same part of the world, you'll find people "stealing" or at best "borrowing" others' stuff, struggles, aesthetics, history and lives. That's an endless and endlessly touchy topic (and I'm getting quite off-topic somehow).
That's just a fashionable travel magazine, it has its flaws, its audience has its flaws just as its creators and contributors do. And you'll always find someone going further than yourself on your own lane. You mentioned Angelina Kendall for Rio? Someone else will let you know that not every Brazilian looks like Angelina or Gisele. And so on. Endless?
