Last year, Beyoncé helped make history when she approved Tyler Mitchell to photograph her for the cover of the September 2018 issue of American Vogue, making the then-23-year-old the first black photographer—and one of the youngest—to shoot the cover of the world’s best-known fashion magazine in its 126-year history. In the year since, that barrier-breaking moment has spawned others, including the first cover by a woman of color photographer on any of Vogue’s editions, and most recently, Laverne Cox becoming the first transgender person to garner a cover slot at the British version of Vogue, which celebrated another first with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex as its first co-editor for the year’s largest issue.

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