I love how Anna is already being mentioned twice as being to blame for this. The theme “Hope” is incredibly broad and you can claim it thematically applies to just about any image you create. Very hard to make the case that anyone’s creativity or vision was stifled by such a generic brief. Anna’s September issue is very lackluster, imo, but at least she commissioned acclaimed artists to paint covers, and those covers featured images of women wearing fashion. I didn’t love it but it had some artistic value, IMO. She can hardly be blamed that Vogue Portugal decided a wrinkled scrap of polyester represented hope. Most editions didn’t even choose images with a clear interpretation of the theme “Hope”, so their success or utter failure rests entirely on the shoulders of the individual teams that produced them.