Vogue Portugal pulls 'triggering' mental health cover after online backlash

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Vogue Italia has apologised for any offence caused by the cover which has been criticised since it was revealed on Friday.

Vogue Portugal has pulled the cover after critics said it was triggering for mental health sufferers.Vogue Portugal has issued an apology and pulled one of its covers for its “madness issue” for July/August after it was described as"triggering and insensitive" by some mental health experts.

The controversial cover depicts a psychiatric hospital and shows a naked woman in a bath tub with two women standing beside her and one of them pouring water over her head. In its apology, Vogue Portugal said: “On such an important issue such as mental health we cannot be divided. Vogue Portugal has taken the decision to pull one of the four covers of our July/August issue which depicts a scene of a psychiatric hospital as well as the inside cover story about mental health.”

 

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