After 10 years I think I am done.
British Vogue is so different under Edward Ennifull. It was certainly dull and stale by the end of Alexandra Shulman’s reign, but it was always always aspirational. A sort of gilded world of British fashion and luxury brands, feted public figures, the high brow arts scene and sumptuous interiors.....you could escape into it with a large glass of red wine and a hot bath.
Full disclosure, I read the Guardian and the New Statesman, my DH reads the Times and The Week. We are a mixed race family (relevant because some objections to the new editor are frankly thinly veiled racism).
I don’t buy Vogue for activism. These are important societal issues but Vogue is not the forum where I would go to consider them.
I buy it for fashion, aspiration and escapism.
Don’t get me wrong it is GREAT that it is more inclusive.
But imagine buying a new Jilly Cooper novel and then discovering she is now writing a left wing polemic on the decline mining towns in the industrial Midland. It’s relevant and valid and important but it is emphatically not why you buy Jilly Cooper.
Lets not kid ourselves we (or maybe I) buy Vogue to escape the real world, not to try and make sense of it.