In 1966, Glamour was the first fashion magazine to feature a black woman, Katiti Kironde, as the cover model, a gesture toward inclusion amid the civil-rights movement.

How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion ...

On one level, “women power the fashion and beauty industry,” says photographer Amanda de Cadenet. “We are the ones purchasing the product. Every ad and billboard is targeted to us.

Black women are the backbone of many industries, having been the inventors of many things and yet not getting the recognition they deserve. Well, ESSENCE wants to give Black women in fashion their ...

And yet, what’s happening now may not be so new. There have long been magazines dedicated to the aspiring young woman. In the 1930s, Mademoiselle was launched as the “magazine for smart young women.” ...

A seasoned fashion stylist with over three decades of experience, Hanks recognizes that the “power suit” of days past doesn’t resonate with a modern professional women's lifestyle.

Even in magazines geared toward older women, such as More magazine, signs of aging are often airbrushed out, Lewis said. Perhaps not coincidentally, anti-wrinkle treatments are soaring in popularity .

Fashion magazines initially targeted 18th century upper-class women in Europe. Whether it was showing the newest Parisian styles or spreading art and culture to the hands of the upper echelon ...

A funny thing happened while we were basking in the glow of cover after cover of fashion magazines featuring black faces this September: We came across an absolutely gorgeous cover of Issa Rae on ...

Inside the Costume Institute’s ‘Women Dressing Women’ by Kristen Bateman Rei Kawakubo with models wearing Comme des Garçons, published in People , December 26, 1983.