Appeasement
The much anticipated new issue of Vogue Italia, which features solely black models and topics affecting black women, hits European newsstands a week from today. Consumers will have four covers from which to choose, all of them featuring a different black woman.
Inside the magazine, top black models from Iman to Veronica Webb will populate 100 pages of fashion features, thus reminding the world that women of all colors are beautiful, just as long as they're tall and possessed of a very specific type of bone structure.
The publishers of Vogue Italia say they're happy with the latest issue and excited to go back to using mostly white models for another few decades.
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Wouldn't it be nice if this wasn't an issue at all? I'm talking about Vouge, not the models. Vouge sucks.
Is it racist of me to say that all these women look alike?
I love, The Iman.
So the chick on the far right is the darkest one they would allow on the cover? And Iman is relegated to inside pages? Sorry, but all I see up there are three mixed girls and one Black woman with foundation on that's a shade too light for her. Not impressed Vogue, if this is the best you can do to show the diversity (read: there's more than one shade of black woman) of my culture, go back to using only white cover girls. I really thought the world had done away with the "paper bag test" mentality.
PS: I'm a light skinned mixed Black woman and even I feel pissed off on behalf of my darker counterparts.
the beautiful people the beautiful people
They remind me of the black barbies: basically the white Barbie painted black (really brown).
I disagree with these being the models for the cover. Mostly because they aren't smiling with their eyes (except maybe Naomi, but you KNOW she stole that from Tyra).
Twiddles, I agree. And, of course, there are no afros in sight.
And Naomi does not look like that. At all.
So how black does one need to be to satisfy a black woman being on the cover of Vogue?
It would be nice if one day we could stop looking at them as "black models" and instead look at them as the vacant, souless vessles that they as models are paid to be.