Vanity Fair is owned by a publisher, Conde Nast which establishes magazines covering fashion, food, technology, travel, including Vogue, The New Yorker, Allure, Glamour, Architectural Digest, Bon Appetit, etc. Its March issue front cover shows a group of nine white Hollywood rising stars, and it seems to be an issue to the crowd because the magazine has omitted other race- African American, Asian, Hispanic, Indian, etc.
Back in the days, it was hard to see colored race model on a magazine, such as Vogue but more and more fashion magazines mix up race either to break the tradition or to appeal “exotic” feature and beauty of race other than just white. But there’s still definitely “white superiority” in fashion model industry and Hollywood where standard of beauty is based on white features, which came from classical Greek culture. Alot of European beauty standard is influenced by classical Greek art, such as its perfect proportioned body and its classical and refined feature, which society admires. And it has definitely affected standard of beauty in America and in other countries nowadays.
Not only this is a racial problem but also it affects the audience who reads fashion magazines; they can be easily manipulated that beauty is defined by models and atresses media chooses and shows. Such results can be shown through female teenagers and young adults who are more exposed to fashion magazines and media. It causes many of them to start on a diet at young age which may lead to anorexia, or eating disorder. Most importantly, they lose self-respect and mirror themselves through these celebrities and models on papers and TV.
