The coronavirus pandemic has caused chaos across the globe, with people quarantined inside their homes for three weeks and more it has given time to reflect on the essential things in life.
Celebrities and influencers seem to have lost the superior status they had in the general public’s eye. People are calling out in support for front liners to be recognised and celebrated at the next awards show and to be seen on red carpets across the globe once the pandemic is over.
This month, popular magazines worldwide have made last-minute changes to their cover photos for the upcoming months considering the ongoing COVID-19 situation. Instead of models and celebrity glamour, most covers feature frontline workers.
1. Italian Vogue
The Italian magazine said it started from scratch, shelving earlier cover plans in favour of a blank white cover, they mentioned, “It is a symbol of respect, rebirth, silence, purity, the color of lab coats and the title page of a new story that is about to begin.”
“To speak of anything else – while people are dying, doctors and nurses are risking their lives and the world is changing forever – is not the DNA of Vogue Italia,” the magazine said in the caption.
2. InStyle Editor Features Scientist on Special Digital Cover
Brown did not want to wait for the month’s issue to be published and instead produced a digital cover highlighting a scientist working 20 hrs a day since January in the wake of the coronavirus.
InStyle editor, Laura Brown says,
“Readers are saying they want to see the everyday women currently doing extraordinary things being celebrated. We need to show that we are listening to them.”
New York editor-in-chief David Haskell mentions, “We knew we wanted to make a special project, a cover-to-cover attempt to help our readers adjust to the weirdness and difficulty of mass self-isolation.”
The Editor Hattie Brett said the team decided to rip everything up and start again for the front liners issue of Grazia UK.
“Like the rest of the nation, everyone working on Grazia has been humbled and awe-struck by the way frontline NHS staff have responded to the coronavirus crisis, risking their own lives to help the rest of us. Our latest issue is dedicated to those workers, as a way of saying thanks for their selfless dedication.”
The weekly magazine looks at the way the virus has changed the work dynamics of people and companies who have been working from home since the lockdown began.
The Indian GQ counterpart has recreated 6 iconic magazine covers from the past and replaced them with the stars wearing a mask to raise awareness on the precautionary measures for COVID-19.
The situation in New York is quite grim, with having the most number of cases in the US. New Yorker’s Chris Ware touching cover shows, Health workers and the affect it has on their families.
We’re yet to see if Pakistani fashion magazines would choose to put front line workers on the front cover of their magazines instead of the usual models/celebrities to celebrate all the hard work the doctors, nurses and medical staff is putting in to fight corona in Pakistan. Keeping in mind the conditions the medical community is working in, they definitely need to be applauded for risking their lives in the line of duty.
Some people have been asking the Lux Style Awards to award the medical community with awards at the next LSA’s as these doctors and nurses deserve all the respect in the world for all that they are doing at a time when the rest of us watch helplessly.
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