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
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
• When will magazines stop relying on racist tropes to sell copies? After being blasted by dark skinned Filipinos, FHM Philippines has scrapped a cover featuring fair skinned actress Bela Padilla pushing past two Filipina models painted black, under the caption “stepping out of the shadows.” Ms. Padilla and the folks at FHM apologized for Continue Reading
Hey! So this weekend Jenelle Phillip, one of the assistant stylists from Costance Jablonski’s Numéro spread, got in touch with me via Twitter, saying, “your recent post on Constance’s spread with Numero isn’t correct. I worked on that shoot, and it was not done in blackface.” She subsequently sent me a link to the whole Continue Reading
Model Constance Jablonski appears in blackface in a recent editorial for French magazine Numéro: She sports an afro while playing with a baby that is either black or, like her, is white with skin painted black. The baby is also wearing an afro. Numéro is following in the footsteps of several other magazines, like V Continue Reading
Karl Lagerfeld compiled 20 years of Claudia Schiffer pictures for inclusion in a German style quarterly called Stern Fotographie. The compilation boasts six different covers, one of which features Claudia in some heavy handed self tanner and an afro: Liberal blog the Huffington Post took offense to the Afrocentric cover, calling Claudia’s get up ‘blackface,’ Continue Reading
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