Some women don’t enter culture politely. They arrive at full volume. @bethditto has spent two decades doing exactly that. As the voice of Gossip, whose Standing in the Way of Control became a protest anthem for a generation. As a punk who changed fashion not by fitting in, but by making fitting in irrelevant. As a writer, designer and performer who has never once asked permission. Long before body positivity had a hashtag, Beth was already living it out loud. Designing the clothes fashion would not make for women like her. Fronting covers that widened the frame. A cultural pioneer who made the mainstream come to her, she shifted the conversation and proved that glamour and defiance are not opposites, but partners. Photographed here in the ARZEL Coat, Beth unmistakably embodies Women in Culture: a woman whose voice, image and influence have reshaped the spaces she moves through. #womeninculture Beth Ditto wears ROKSANDA Photography: @raphaelleorphelin