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Before the year ended, we talked about some of the trends that we expected to continue seeing going forward in the fashion and beauty industry. Photoshopping is?a main contender, as the fashion market strides incessantly towards reaching unrealistic levels of perfection.
But then this happened. Glamour Magazine unveiled their upcoming Feb issue featuring the cast of Girls looking, well, glamorous, and very natural. So natural, in fact, that we see Dunham sporting one accessory that normally hides from cover shoots: cellulite.
I know it’s kind of counterproductive to draw attention to it, but it is a big deal for media – fashion magazines in particular – to acknowledge that real bodies (cellulite, lumps and bumps included) are glamorous; especially when we live in such a damaging world and where ‘filters’ are becoming so much of a norm that it’s becoming hard to tell whether your friend is the same person post Instagram’selfie.
We shouldn’t be surprised to see real women in a fashion magazine but we are; which is the sad part.
Dunham herself took to social media to post a deeply personal message about the importance of the shoot, of being imperfect and the emotional and physical hurt she felt as a young woman for looking different to other women.
“Throughout my teens, I was told, in no uncertain terms, that I was funny looking. Potbelly, rabbit teeth, knock knees — I could never seem to get it right and it haunted my every move,” she writes. “I posed as the sassy confident one, secretly horrified and hurt by careless comments and hostility. Let’s get something straight: I didn’t hate what I looked like — I hated the culture that was telling me to hate it.”
It’s giving us all the right feels.
The cover, featuring?HBO co-stars Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet, Jemima Kirke, and Lena, is in conjunction with Glamour’s ‘body issue’, and it’s a step forward – a ginormous leap even – in portraying women as they really are with no photo manipulation.
In the era of the filter, be unfiltered! We’re hopeful that this is the start of something great for publishing and photo manipulation, and grateful for perfectly imperfect women like Lena. Let’s continue 2017 as Glamour have started, shall we?