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Beyoncé’s best quotes from her Vogue September Takeover
The world is abuzz at the release of the much anticipated Beyoncé led Vogue September issue. Not only did the Queen have creative control of the most important issue of the most read rag of the year (September issues are the Bad Bitches of the magazine world, and Vogue’s September issue is the badest of them all and the most highly anticipated every year), she employed Tyler Mitchell, the first-ever African American photographer to shoot a Vogue cover (which is both incredible of Tyler but a terrible shame on Vogue, who has been around for over 120 years.)
She even makes commentary on that, saying “Until there is a mosaic of perspectives coming from different ethnicities behind the lens, we will continue to have a narrow approach and view of what the world actually looks like. That is why I wanted to work with this brilliant 23-year-old photographer Tyler Mitchell. When I first started, 21 years ago, I was told that it was hard for me to get onto covers of magazines because black people did not sell. Clearly, that has been proven a myth. Not only is an African American on the cover of the most important month for Vogue, this is the first ever Vogue cover shot by an African American photographer.”
Beyoncé was given unprecedented control of this issue. And she used it. When asked about the overall beauty of the issue, Mrs…
