Vogue Paris: Lara (MNSFW)

Everyone loves a minstrel show!

Vogue Paris October 2009
Editorial: Lara
Photographer: Steven Klein
Model: Lara Stone
Fashion Editor: Carine Roitfeld

We rarely use this word when it comes to fashion, but this is flat out offensive. Rather than using a model of color for this shoot (and the industry is well aware of how bad its reputation is for not using models of color enough), Klein and Roitfeld decided to use a white model and put her in black face.

We wouldn't have this blog if we didn't have a love of fashion, but even we have to admit that sometimes the fashion world is so insular and so removed from reality that it winds up pulling a stunt like this, something that would never happen in any other mass mediated industry. We don't see white people in black face on television anymore (except Mad Men), or in films, or on the stage, or in the music industry. But the fashion industry blithely forges ahead, completely oblivious of the world around them.

John Gallian Fall 2009 Collection
Models: Vlada Roslyakova/Vlada Olga Sherer

Commes des Garcons Fall 2009 Collection
Models:Maria Pia Bongol/Yulia Merzlyakova

Alexander McQueen Fall 2009 Collection
Models:Sigrid Agren/Kasia Struss

Yves Saint Laurent Fall 2009 Collection

Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Eugenia Mandzhieva

Givenchy Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Isabeli Fontana

Lanvin Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Sofie Roellens

Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Maryna Linchuk

Louis Vuitton Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Sasha Pivovarova

Prada Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Giedre Dukavskaite

Balenciaga Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Karmen Pedaru

Michael Kors Fall 2009 Collection

[Images:TheFashionSpot/Laetitia/Style.com]


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