US Allure June/July 2022 : Chloe Bailey by Micaiah Carter

[amby]

 

[WAVES]

not crazy about this.
the hairstyle and that dress aren’t working for me.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

I love the colours but hate the hairsstyle in that angle. It ages her terribly.

 

[SophiaVB]

It looks like she's cupping her boob. Awkward pose and bad styling all around.

 

[Bernie Flood]

Allure was only 80 pages the last time I check.
While the same issue I have from 16 yrs ago…!

 

[aracic]

She's really never gonna be a fashion girlie, is she? It's strange because her music videos are such a serve and then you see this and wonder what the hell happened. She does look beautiful though, when you eliminate the hair styling and the weird pose. It's great to see her!

 

[Bertrando3]

^ yeah, I def not understand the need to call this ''the melanin edit'', it feels off.

 

[FashionMuseDior]

Her sister is more photogenic but she does look great in motion.

 

[tigerrouge]

Flicking through this June-July issue online, it's 92 pgs. The editor's letter talks about how, last year, they launched the Melanin Edit, "an editorial destination that celebrates the highly melanated" and this year, they have extended that into their print edition.

There's a short 'couples' interview with Sabrina and Idris Elba, who have created a skincare brand S'able Labs (his surname backwards), a tribute to make-up artist AJ Crimson, guest editor Michaela angela Davis talks about her experience of being a lighter-skinned woman, a look at female DJs, a beauty interview with Alok Vaid-Menon, and Babba Rivera.

There's a two-page piece about the work of make-up artist Bobby Mills in the 70s and 80s, who died last year. Then there are the personal recollections of Karen Good Marable and the rituals of moisturisation.

The Chloe Bailey cover feature is 8 pgs, and most of the images are better than the cover shot, then there's RANK & STYLE, a look at the changing standards of grooming adopted by the US military, which is followed by an 8 pg editorial BEYOND THE LIMITS by Solve Sundsbo, featuring the work of hairstylist Jawara, and the issue is rounded off by the bodega article, talking about the experience of buying beauty products in your community.

This issue is short and the cover doesn't draw you in as much as it could - but it has more content than you imagine, and the variety of articles under the current editor harks back to the type of features we saw under Linda Wells - pieces about the history of beauty, someone's memories of their personal rituals, a person's mental relationship with what they see in the mirror. When you don't have this type of content in Allure, the magazine just becomes a list of beauty products.

So Allure now has some soul again, but is it too late? I am surprised that it still exists as a print product.

 

[Kimy Jo]

...beauty interview with Alok Vaid-Menon

 

[Deleted member 141523]

CN knows the term "positive discrimination"?

 

[aracic]

Vogue Italia's Black issue to this day remains one of the best-selling magazines in history... just remember that. There's no need to make a fuss about it, it's not like every month is Melanin edit. Imagine if fashion magazines did LGBTQ themed issues on Pride month once a year and everyone complained about discrimination against heterosexuals. Would that bother you? There's no White edit because there is no need for a white edit. White people were not and are not on the sidelines of anything ever, we don't need additional representation and attention to our cause because we already have it. So if 92 pages of a beauty magazine dedicated to black people bothers you that much, the problem lies within. Work on it. Chile.

To get back on topic of Allure, 92 pages sound utterly depressing. Imagine collectiong current fashion magazines and displaying them on your shelves - you'd literally have a collection of pamphlets in your home.

 

[tigerrouge]

To concentrate on a particular theme for one issue is something that magazines do all the time - and if the content is interesting, all the better.

 

[Deleted member 141523]

Still, it hits the title, it can sound insensitive if it was writen by a team of white journalists. In the other hand, there's no need to point the etnicity in magazines. You put a person, no matter the skin color, there's no reason to remark if it's black, white, asian, latino, etc., is just a person like everybody. Full representation (and more in places like North America with more diversity) is needed, there's no question. This is a "special issue", when actually this kind of content should be regular on every publication the whole year, to represent all. That's why the "positive discrimination" came to my mind. I hope they continue writing articles for african american population, not only for a "special". This should have been presented in a better way, seriously.

Aside note, 80 pages for a magazine for june/july? They killed Details magazine for even more.

 

[KoV]

Still, it hits the title, it can sound insensitive if it was writen by a team of white journalists.

Allure’s EIC, Jessica Cruel, is herself a black woman and The Melanin Edit is her brainchild.

 

[Deleted member 141523]

Allure’s EIC, Jessica Cruel, is herself a black woman and The Melanin Edit is her brainchild.

Thank you for the information King! Well, it's better.

 

[Ghesquiere32]

one of the most beautiful faces I’ve seen in a long time so naturally stunning love this