Plus-size beauty Ashley Graham has landed her first Vogue cover for the January issue of British Vogue!
The magazine choosing the 28-year-old supermodel to grace the cover is a major departure from the typical women who have been featured in Vogue and it is certainly a step in the diversity direction that the mag seems to be heading in.
Editor-in-Chief of the mag, Alexandra Shulman, has been a major advocate for body diversity in the fashion industry. Her decision to make Graham the cover girl comes hot off their November issue, "The Real Issue," which featured regular women rather than models.
“Happily the fashion industry is becoming more diversified and that is wonderful,” said Shulman in a penned letter to designers.
It is women like Shulman and Graham who have created a self love narrative for women in or pursuing a career in fashion and modeling. Graham has been carrying the banner for realism in the industry since her entrance into the fashion world in 2010. Starting as a spokesmodel for Lane Bryant to creating a body positive line called swimsuitsforall. The model has pushed the momentum of this conversation in all aspects of the industry.
In 2016, Graham landed herself on the cover of Sports Illustrated, making her the mag's first plus-size cover girl. She recently scored a deal with Barbie, creating an Ashley Graham doll with "real" women dimensions and no thigh gap, per the model's request. So now surely taking on the cover of the world's "fashions bible" won't be a problem for Graham.