As America grows more diverse, fashion magazine covers are slow to show progress

Over the past three decades, American Vogue has featured five times as many white models on its covers than minority models, while Harper’s Bazaar U.S. has shown nearly seven times as many white models. At the same time, the United States has seen an increase in the minority population, which grew nearly 30 percent from 2000 to 2010 alone. The white population grew 1.2 percent over that same period.

This look at fashion magazine covers comes at a time when diversity in the fashion and entertainment industries is increasingly under watch. A number of outlets, including theFashionSpot, Vogue, NYMag and Fashionista, covered diversity on the runways of New York Fashion Week this past year, while ABC’s announcement of Rachel Lindsay as the first black bachelorette also made headlines.