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Who Needs Vogue?

Ezinne Ukoha
6 min readJul 10, 2020

Embattled editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour is currently weathering the storm of the ultimate switcheroo, that suddenly tosses her legendary attributes in the bin of questionable items.

The saying goes, “Fashion is like eating, you shouldn’t stick to the same menu…”

It appears that the chilliness of the revered icon, who rules supreme over an industry that has been notorious for shutting out Black faces, in favor of the more viable currency of whiteness has melted from the heat of growing discontent, and rightfully aimed criticism, condemning Wintour’s decades-long reign of fashionable bigotry.

The nation and the whole world is ablaze with activism in strong reaction to the unfathomable season of police brutality and gun violence, that continues to target Black lives with the normalized expendability that can no longer be tolerated.

Naturally, the systemic racism that stems from the normalized culprit of white supremacy isn’t just permeating the activities of law enforcement and the judicial system.

Every facet of American life is a diseased extension of this national epidemic, and the symptoms are showcased through the willful determination to rely on the preferred default of exclusion, to guarantee that influential roles in notable industries will continue to be inhabited by white men and white women.

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