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American Vogue’s September 2021 issue is out! And it’s different, conceived with a new attitude around model agency [as in proactive power] as ‘New Beginnings: The Models Who Make the Moment’. The big fashion news arrives on the heels of Vogue’s announcement on Tuesday that the Met Gala September 13 food feast would be 1) plant-based and 2) created by 10 chefs and Instagram influencers.

Welcome to the creative collective, a capitalist-economy world of more than one star and a [visible] lack of winner gets all competition. Will it last? Perhaps our survival as a species depends on our hugging the idea and holding on to each other tightly.

Models on the cover [not in alphabetical order] include left to right: Kaia Gerber, Anok Yai, Precious Lee, Bella Hadid, Sherry Shi, Ariel Nicholson, Yumi Nu and Lourdes Leon. The ensemble is styled by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson and Tonne Goodman, with images by Ethan James Green.

While we flush out the particulars on AOC, read the details at Vogue’s ‘Generation America: The Models Changing an Industry’.