French Vogue Features Model in Blackface
The blogosphere is in an uproar over the latest issue of French Vogue magazine. In the issue, photographer Steven Klein shot dutch supermodel Lara Stone in blackface makeup. Here's what's most disturbing about this story: it's the Supermodel Issue but there's no mention of Naomi Campbell or Chanel Iman or Liya Kebede. All of this just days after jazz singer Harry Connick, Jr., almost exploded after witnessing a group of dudes on an Australian TV show dressed in blackface and paroding the Jackson 5. What's really going on, folks?—ZH
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i see it as being more than racist. they\'re just outright jealous. africans are strikingly beautiful and they wish they looked like us. to actually own up to this fact and put an african model in the magazine would be to admit this fact. they\'re jealous of us because our skin is so beautiful and no matter what they do (tanning,etc.) it still won\'t be the same as the real thing!!!
Posted at 10/19/2009 10:29 PM by nichole
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The french have a false sense of self-importance. I've been to france and a lot of the people there are arab, and look mixed-race. The whites there smoke and drink espresso all day, everyday to the point of looking haggard and like a bag of wrinkles. So, who gives a crap about them?
Posted at 10/15/2009 3:52 PM by barbara
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You will never win with the French.
Remember L'Oreal, French cosmetics giant, recently found guilty of racial discrimination for considering black, Arab and Asian women unworthy of selling its shampoo?
Posted at 10/15/2009 11:44 AM by Busi
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French fashion is BIG time racists to all women of color. They've been in trouble before for not hiring ethnic women at a prestigous department store in Paris, because they felt ethnic women would not make great salespeople and would not fit the look of the product. This doesn't surprise me at all.
Posted at 10/14/2009 8:17 PM by lmb
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Who cares about Naomi or Iman..... in life they are another version of black face.
Posted at 10/14/2009 2:50 PM by truth
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