French Vogue made history featuring a transgender model for the first time
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 20-02-2017
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'The day when a transsexual poses for a magazine cover and it will be no longer necessary to write an editorial on the subject, we will know that the fight has been won.'
She also paid homage to other transgender figures who have preceded Sampaio and Jenner such as Lea T, the muse of Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci.
In her editor's letter, she recalled the trauma endured by supermodel Caroline Cossey, who was an extra in the 1981 film For Your Eyes Only and posed for Playboy that year before being outed by Britain's now-defunct News of the World tabloid in 1982.