Malala Yousafazi Vogue

Costume:

• Red dupatta (headscarf) which Asian women typically wear when the get married   

  • Subverting the norm that she has to get married

• The headscarf is a cultural symbol for Pashtuns

  • Showing you can still wear traditional clothes and have your voice be heard (subverting stereotypes headscarves are a symbol of oppression)

• Gold jewellery

  • embracing western beauty

• Hair showing

  • Freedom from the Taliban

  • Showing others the fight for individuality

Gestures:

• Hands

  • Holding her head up high

  • Could link to traditional Indian dances

• Direct mode of address

  • Suggests a personal, direct and honest connection: that she is a figure to be trusted

Composition:

• Centre of the cover

• Behind ‘Vouge’ masthead

  • Protects her behind the text

  • Humble

• Medium close up

  • On her level as equals

• Didot fond is part of Vouge’s iconography

• Rule of three

  • Centre of attention

  • Brings admiration

• Red colour pallet

  • Passion, violence, love

  • Gives her a bold background

Text:

• “Fighting talk”

  • Acknowledges the fight she experienced

• “Extraordinary”

  • Emotive language

• “Survivor, activist, legend”

  • Admiration