Black Is The New Black?

What is going on in the magazine industry? I’m all for creative expression and being fashion forward, but why do magazines and the fashion industry feel the need for this ‘blackface’ trend? Remember Lara Stone’s controversial blackface editorial spread in French Vogue? And on Wednesday night, Tyra Banks whipped out some blackface makeup for a photo shoot where the shorties were portraying different races. Now V Magazine shot model Sasha Pivovarova in blackface posing opposite Heidi Mount. Not going to lie, the girl looks pretty black; but there are plenty of beautiful black models who they could have shot and would have used a lot less makeup. Dear fashion industry, pick a new controversial trend, please. Sincerely, everyone.

French Vogue Does Blackface

Yikes! Well if French Vogue wanted some attention, they sure did get it. For this month's supermodel issue, French Vogue decided to paint supermodel Lara Stone in blackface makeup; instead of just using a black model...hhhmmmm. Not only that, the magazine and French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld praised Lara Stone for the "radical break with the wave of anorexic models." Well she's only a size 4. And although that's bigger than a size 0, it's not much of a difference. And as they praised Lara for her breakthough as an over-the-size-zero model, French Vogue included models who would be exclaimed as anorexic or most likely a size zero: Kate Moss, Kristen McMenamy, Yasmin Le Bon, Eva Herzigova, Caludia Schiffer, Anna Selezna, Diane Kruger, Constance Jabolski and Eniko Mihalik. Well, thanks for trying to include everyone, but I think you failed French Vogue.