CNN Style launches its Beauty section

The new section aims to provide a modern take on aesthetics and visual identity around the world. According to CNN Style, the launch marks the beginning of a new and necessary conversation about the power, politics and culture around the way we look.

The new section will appear alongside CNN Style's existing sections, which include:

• Arts,
• Design,
• Fashion,
• Architecture, and
• Luxury.

"For millennia, we have used markings and adornments to communicate something about who we are and where we belong in the world," says Fiona Sinclair Scott, global editor of CNN Style. "In a time when conversations around diversity and inclusivity have never been so prevalent, maintaining the power to control how we tell our story matters."

"CNN Style is launching this new section as a global platform that will explore how beauty has been defined in the past, shine a light on those who are currently reshaping the conversation and follow the evolution of beauty into the future," concludes Scott.

Her full editor's letter is available to read here.

CNN Style will be rolling out a series of features and think pieces that will be featured in the Beauty section over the course of March. These include:

• Chinese American photographer Andrew Kung's piece on the de-sexualization of Asian American men
• activist and artist Alok V. Menon's piece on their own experience of beauty as a visibly gender-nonconforming person, and
• American photographer Catherine Opie's piece on what she has learned about beauty through her career.

Individuals can view CNN Style's Beauty section in full at www.CNN.com.

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