You can do better, Vogue Brazil

If you know me at all you know that I have, on several occasions, pretended to be a native son of São Paulo.

I can do this because nearly 40 percent of real Brazilians are multiethnic, most being a mixture of African descendants and the descendants of the Europeans who enslaved them.

Brazil is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world, and it’s one of those places where the ‘typical’ national can be ebony to ivory and everything in between. So why then, Vogue Brazil, does your ‘next generation’ look exactly like your old one—white?
I’m actually more unsettled by this lackluster selection of girls who all have the same, boring look than I am with their skin tone, but I just wanted to point out that while some magazines are taking major steps forward, others remain loyal to long-standing societal standards of narrow perception and inequality.