THE VOGUE CHALLENGE

So apparently trends come and go and what is trending right now is “The Vogue Challenge”. It started from black models, stylists, and photographers who posted a version of their covers demanding more opportunities and diversity.

Now it has become a major trend and even in Pakistan, many celebrities have taken part in this challenge. Moreover, their audience seemed to enjoy and encourage this and actually have had healthy participation.

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The overall point of this challenge was to create awareness among people. Equal opportunity for all, no matter the race, caste, or color. Everyone is beautiful in their own terms and we belong to a single race called Humanity and being human means not differentiating on the basis of traits. There are many biased opinions of people and consider white people as a beauty standard. However, that’s not true we should have the mindset that everything has its purpose and is beautiful in its own unique way. All humans have emotions, they have similarities yet what people only consider are the differences when being biased and racist. As explained by M.L. Butler in his tweets

BLACK MODELS MATTER. 

BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS MATTER. 

BLACK HAIR STYLISTS MATTER. 

BLACK MAKEUP ARTISTS MATTER.

BLACK CREATIVE DIRECTORS MATTER. 

BLACK FASHION INFLUENCERS MATTER. #VogueChallenge

— M.L. Butler (@RealMLButler) June 11, 2020

What this world needs is change. We need to accept the fact that we have minor differences, yet we belong to the same human race. We evolved from the same species. Colors and races do not matter.