Moreover, every person hired or commissioned to work on the issue was a woman. In an email to USA Today, editor-in-chief Cindy Leive explained that she wants the magazine to “not just talk the talk about female empowerment, but that we also walk the walk,” which meant hiring women for February’s “photographers, stylists, hair, makeup, everything.”
The decision was made after Leive realized that Glamour was calling out gender equality while 37% of the photographers for the print pages during the fall were women and only 32% of the featured hairstylists were.
The female contributors who were hired were given the opportunity to do whatever they wanted, though, which meant that male-helmed design houses were still featured. On the cover, Girls‘ Dunham, Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet, and Jemima Kirke are all wearing designs by Marc Jacobs.
Taking a stand against the rampant photo editing in the beauty industry has been growing in popularity over the last few years. Celebrities like Kerry Washington and Keira Knightley have fought back against the unrealistic body expectations altered photos of them present to women, so Glamour joining the fight started by the sort of stars that regularly grace its pages just makes sense.
