Lara Stone

[lizzardqueen]

Those are INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My breath has been taken from me............thank you for posting

 

[childkid]

those are great

you can see a video of that shoot if you go to his website. the video is called "namibia 2006" and it is under the video section.


and i am so exited about JPG. i had a feeling that she would either do his ads, or ads for hermes. if anyone could make those collections work, it would be lara.
but this doesn't sound too promising

Don't put too much hope on it, have seen it....it looks exactly like F08, literally.

i wonder what other campaigns she will get. stella? balmain? belstaff? maybe even celine?

 

[mackos]

African shots are STUNNING!

 

[_incognito]

Blackface. Really?!?

 

[kahlilg]

Blackface. Really?!?

not only that but it just seems like imperialistic "white mans burden" bull****. but i'm not blaming that on lara and i know she probably had no say it in at all.

 

[masquerade]

^ I agree Kahlil. I am so tired of editorials with white women with black (or asian or indian) models as accessories. Lara is beautiful, but this ed is wrong

 

[Luxx]

Just when I thought this Christmas couldn't get any worse I see this mess.

I'm sure Lara had no say in it but these pictures really couldn't be any more offensive if they tried. First the Pirelli calendar and now this, I'm so tired of this colonialist garbage.

 

[vogue28]

alix* I love the thrid picture you posted.

 

[Juliax]

Scanned by me, ads for Tsum Moscow

 

[cul8tr]

I like a lot black and white pics. But I can't stand Lara's boobs. They are everywhere!!! I'm going to start thinking they're more important that the owner.

 

[nijuyanah]

^ Love those ads

 

[kestrel]

i love lara.
but i'm so sick of the boobs!enough already.
it's not even interesting anymore.
i think she suffers from over exposure literally LOL.
i doubt even kate moss has such a collection of nudes as lara does.and kate has a lot of them..
it makes me like her less.

 

[intentionless]

Blackface. Really?!?

I could be wrong, but I don't think that this is the case at all.

I watched a show once about a tribe in Namibia (the Himba) in which the women adorn themselves in this deep red, muddy, paint-like mixture and wear it all the time. It's part of being a woman there, they have to do it and when the tribe invites outsiders in they encourage the women to do it too. It's not "blacking up" or whatever. From what I remember, the women there had very difficult lives. They were responsible for ridiculous amounts of hard manual labour, got beaten regularly etc, but were still very welcoming and pleasant to the woman from the TV show trying to immerse herself in the culture. You finished watching the show really admiring their strength and beauty and pride.

That's what these images made me think of so I actually think it's a really nice editorial.

 

[Luxx]

The problem of these pictures isn't simply that it is "blackface". The problem is that the pictures fall into the realm of exoticising another culture and playing into stereotypes about race. Whatever the photographers intent one cannot just overlook the blatant cultural appropriation that comes with this kind of imagery.

I have to echo masquerade's sentiments - I'm so tired of fashion doing this. Using the people of another culture as props is not creative nor is it interesting. It's so tired, so boring and so completely backwards that it makes my mind boggle sometimes. Lara is beautiful - this imagery is not.

 

[lizzardqueen]

^^

I suppose it's solely down to how any individual takes it...like with all art......some will hate for reasons they find justified and some will love for justified reasons of their own.....but it's important and interesting to express each opinion....

 

[classicalbang]

I saw the first photo and basically just scrolled past the rest. I do not care if this is "controversial" or if it "pushes the envelope". It is wrong. Like Luxx said, this is colonialist garbage.

 

[ad032915]

well it sure got people talking, and who knows? maybe that was the point of all of this.

to raise awareness, using shocking imagery? but I don' know.

I'm kinda more offended by Tanya D's non existing t*ts in post #6686.

 

[TommyGirl]

I don`t like her being topless everywhere either. I don`t mind if it happens sometimes, but now it feels like it`s the one and only purpose in every shot of her. After all she`s fashion model. I guess photographers are just crazy about Lara`s body Don`t get me wrong, I love her body too, but nude or almost in every editorial...

 

[FashionCapital]

Blackface. Really?!?

That was my initial reaction, and I agree with Luxx and kahlil. This kind of stuff is so commonplace in fashion, it's just so odd and annoying. When will Africa stop being the land of tribal men and women, India the land of elephants and saris, etc. in editorials/campaigns?

 

[childkid]

to everyone complaining about seeing her boobs too much lately, those pictures were shot in 2006, and they were only for steven lyon's personal work. the actual editorial shot that they went to nunibia to shoot involved no nudity, red paint, or tribalware.


and i don't remember this being posted, sorry it is was
it's from lara and irina's editorial in the february 2008 vogue italia shot by mario sorrenti

paranaiv