If you told me last year that my name would be mentioned in an issue of Elle Magazine, I would have probably smiled, looked to the right, and thought "That would be amazing."If you told me this same thing 5 years ago when I was deep in the mix of writing my doctoral dissertation on fashion (and heavily critiquing fashion magazines in the process), I would have thought you had lost your mind. Ten years ago? I would have inquired what you were smoking.
In general, mainstream fashion magazines have historically shown little interest in featuring alternative perspectives on the fashion industry. The bodies represented in fashion magazines are overwhelmingly homogeneous.