{"id":54884,"date":"2017-09-05T00:20:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54884"},"modified":"2017-09-05T00:20:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T00:20:08","slug":"elaine-welteroth-teen-vogues-refashionista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54884","title":{"rendered":"Elaine Welteroth, Teen Vogue\u2019s Refashionista"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elaine Welteroth, Teen Vogue\u2019s Refashionista<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times Magazine<\/a>
\n2017-08-31<\/p>\n

Jazmine Hughes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nElaine Welteroth<\/strong><\/a>
\nCredit Erik Madigan Heck for The New York Times<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

The editor in chief has taken on a seemingly impossible task: reinventing the glossy magazine for a hyperempathetic<\/a> generation.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you are, like me, a person with no sense of style and a stomach paunch, you might understand why dressing for a fashion show would be a psychological challenge. The day before my first one, I begged my best-dressed co-worker to chaperone my visit to a fast-fashion outlet. I\u2019d coveted a pleated gold-foil skirt I\u2019d seen on the store\u2019s website. My co-worker had approved the skirt on the model. I tried it on. She did not approve it on me. In person, the gold foil looked cheap, the waistband of the skirt unflattering. Instead, she picked out a rose-colored accordion skirt that I would never have thought to buy. I put it on the next morning. Four hours later, I spilled steak juice all down my front.<\/p>\n

Maybe another person would have given up at that point, but I was on my way to meet Elaine Welteroth<\/a>, the editor in chief of Teen Vogue<\/em><\/a>. Hired at 29, she is the youngest-ever editor in chief of a Cond\u00e9 Nast<\/a> publication, and only the second black woman to hold the title there. Since taking over the magazine last year, she has become a personality of sorts, appearing as herself on ABC\u2019s \u2018\u2018black-ish<\/a>\u2019\u2019 and being photographed cuddled up to celebrities: the Black Lives Matter <\/a>activist DeRay Mckesson<\/a>, the actors Gabrielle Union<\/a> and Aja Naomi King<\/a>. As I headed to the Coach fall show this February, I found myself growing increasingly nervous to meet her. It wasn\u2019t that she was famous, really. But I spent a significant portion of my adolescence fantasizing about running my own teen magazine, and, like her, I am a young, black New York<\/a>-based editor with curly hair and myopia. She was famous to me…<\/p>\n

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