when you're involved in a production for a magazine with a circulation of over a million at some point you'd have to sacrifice your philosophies in favor of public demand. thus speaking US Vogue can't stray over their usual attack for their magazines lest they horrify their readers with something too innovative oravantgarde for their taste.
It's difficult for me to articulate my precise point because I'm referring to 'the topic that cannot be discussed'. I'm not talking about being adventurous or avant-garde, I'm talking about the decision to alter someone's body in that way, something which this magazine does have some say about.
This publication helps set the tone for what's deemed acceptable in terms of this topic and I passionately believe there is space for them to make better decisions on their representation than what I see on this cover,
considering the theme. On an issue which is supposed to sell the notion of power, why turn her into half the person she is?
Sure, the cover has to provide an uncomplicated fantasy, so tidy the hair, add a glow, make her face the camera in a way that doesn't show the scar, but there isn't any real need to go as far as inventing a new body for her. We know what she looks like, she's perfectly fine, it's not anti-commercial to let that be what we see, but instead, she's whittled away.
That said, most cover stars are 'created' from reconstituted body parts, so why should the annual power issue actually provide anything new, even though the magazine itself does have the power to demonstrate that their use of the word is more than mere window dressing.
I hope it's REALLY thick.
Even just the number of pages will be OK.
