Vogue Netherlands is the latest fashion magazine to publish a ‘blackface’ editorial. The spread in question, ‘Heritage Heroes,’ is a retrospective piece featuring Marc Jacobs‘s past work for Louis Vuitton. Why a white model had to be painted black for such a project is unknown. Each photo in the spread was supposed to illustrate the inspiration Continue Reading
Apparently approximately 90% of models cast during Fall 2013 fashion week were white, with New York designers casting even more caucasian women than previous seasons. Befuddled by this lack of diversity, Buzzfeed contributing writer James Lim contacted 5 top casting directors to get to the bottom of the issue. A few snippets: James Kelly, Casting Continue Reading
Many of you have noticed that in the past couple weeks, we’ve started to feature more unsuspected style stars. In addition to our typical posts about Beyonce, Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, and Kim Kardashian, we’ve also started to incorporate Blake Lively, Nicky Hilton, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Mila Kunis. Quite a number of you have expressed distaste Continue Reading
After a firestorm of comments in response to the ‘African Queen’ editorial featuring white model Ondria Harmon, shoot photographer Sebastian Kim took to his agency Jedroot’s blog to offer an explanation. He said: I would like to apologize for any misunderstanding around my recent photos for Numero France. It was never my intention (nor Numero’s) to Continue Reading
Jezebel recently uncovered snapshots of 16-year-old white model Ondria Hardin, posing in a March 2013 editorial by Numéro titled ‘African Queen.‘ The pictures show the young lady, dipped in a deep bronze paint, wearing turbans, bold cuffs, statement necklaces, and a smattering of prints. Is she an African Queen? Well, no, not at all. Ms. Continue Reading
Michelle Lapidos (@michellejoni) is a white, blonde woman on an Eat, Pray, Love-type journey of self-discovery. And thanks to her Afro wig, she’s learning a lot about self-liberation, but sadly, little about self-awareness. Lapidos started a blog, Before and Afro, chronicling her exploits roaming around New York City in a cartoonish afro wig she bought to Continue Reading
• Condé Nast has named its first black Editor-in-Chief for one of its publications. Former Uptown magazine editrix Keija Minor will now sit at the helm of Brides magazine. Congratulations to Ms. Minor! (Clutch) • Grown women who wear Hello Kitty: it’s a concept I will never understand, but it seems Forever 21 gets it. Continue Reading
• New York Fashion Week was the most diverse it’s been since 2008. While (duh) 79.4% of runway slots went to white models, Asian models took 10.1% of the spots, black models represented at 8.1%, Non-white Latina models came in at a sparse 1.9%, and models of other races were cast in 0.5% of open Continue Reading
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