GENDER IDENTITY- VOGUE

As an editorial photographer, I always find it is important to add a sense of identity to my work, and it is also something that remains extremely important within editorial photography. I decided to look at one of the strongest examples of identity within the female gender when it comes to editorial, and this is the classic fashion magazine, VOGUE. As you can see from the Vogue cover (below, left) they have always highlighted the main features of a woman’s face and body, whether it is the curves, or the lips and eyes- parts of the female body that are considered to be seductive, and connotes female dominance, and also beauty. The covers always concentrate on the face, allowing us to look more in depth at the more feminine features such as the eyes, mouth and cheek bones- in many ways defining these women as goddesses. The fonts and colours used are always light and bright, something found in women’s fashion, but also many of the classic covers pre-color printing, have very high contrasts adding a glamour look to the cover. VOGUE has become defined as being part of the female gender because of it’s importance it plays in fashion- a large part of the female identity.