US Elle February 2019 : Ashley Graham by Carin Backoff

[matheus_s]

Nina cut off All the text/articles part. in the past elle was full of good writing content- how i Miss the book review pages- now half of the Magazine is made by accessories pictures and small text box. Even the features is gone.

Something interesting, text content, in this issue?

 

[Benn98]

Nina cut off All the text/articles part. in the past elle was full of good writing content- how i Miss the book review pages- now half of the Magazine is made by accessories pictures and small text box. Even the features is gone.

Something interesting, text content, in this issue?

Really? Not much. As you say there are loads of fashion snippets and short reads. Of course Ashley Graham got the same amount of copy a celebrity would've gotten. Other than that there's a short-ish article where Gina Rodriguez speaks about the underrepresentation of Latinx in Hollywood, and how her new film hopes to correct that in the same way Crazy Rich Asians or Black Panther did for other marginalised groups. A black author discusses the importance of public figures wearing looks from black designers. Abloh is heavily mentioned and praised to the extent that it seems she's on his payroll, so the article failed to make an impact on me. But then again, it wasn't written for me anyway.
The only long-form article explores Femen activist Oksana Shacko's suicide last year. Definitely worth a read, and for most part faultless and well-researched. The writer even tapped a clinical psychologist to weigh in on the matter. And as I read it, couldn't help wondering whether at least 2 more in-depth features could've been borne from that. One discussing the psychological profile and effect of political activists, and another the legacy of Shacko's specific brand of activism and where Femen is right now without her. That was the Robbie Myers way of treating journalism. To expand or broaden topics in a dense way that the reader really get an educated approach to the issue at hand.

As far as I know the features team stayed on after Robbie left, so I think the quality of the written content will remain the same. We'll probably just get less of it because it's clearly not a priority for Nina.