French Vogue made history featuring a transgender model for the first time
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 20-02-2017
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Vogue Paris is to feature a transgender model on its cover calling her a 'femme fatale who happened to be born a boy. Valentina Sampaio from Brazil will grace the front page of the iconic publication for its March edition, becoming the first transgender model to do so in a French magazine. A sultry Sampaio, bathed in dark purple and blue light, appears over the words 'Transgender Beauty', with a subtitle reading 'How they are shaking up the world,' on the cover to appear on newsstands February 23.
Calling Sampaio the 'glam standard-bearer of a cause that is on the march', the French edition of Vogue describes the 22-year-old as a 'femme fatale' who happened to be born a boy.
Emmanuelle Alt, the magazine's editor-in-chief, said: 'Beyond her evident physical qualities and her sparkling personality, Sampaio embodies a long and painful fight against being perceived as a 'gender exile.'