L'Officiel Paris March 2011 : Beyonce

[fiqary]

her boobs have no form.is like they start from the neck and dont end until where the waist start.weird.

have you seen her naked??

 

[alonsoJonathan]

lol nope.i was talking the way she look in the picture,the cover.

 

[ForChicSake]

why didn't they just use a supermodel liya, iman or alek would have been more appealing to celebrate their 90th, i just get nothing from beyonce. they obviously just want publicity good or bad (i'm assuming there will be more of the latter) full stop by painting her face a darker shade. shameful/stupid both the magaine/beyonce imo!

 

[agee]

The use of black face was stupid and my guess is that they are being provovative for the sake of being provocative and I don't care if the get hammered for it, not so much for being offensive or racially insensitive but for being craven and idiotic attention seekers. The ed looked like it was going in an amazing Follies-Bergère direction (fantastic clothes, hair and makeup on point and Beyonce werkin' it) and they screwed it up.

 

[xPedro]

I love that African style photo, but she looks too Kim K on that cover!

 

[Bank]

Just wanted to point out that this isn't blackface.

 

[Eccentricity]

^so what is it? cheap ploy for attention

 

[alonsoJonathan]

for real!!^^^

 

[daddybuymeapony]

Just wanted to point out that this isn't blackface.

ditto"

 

[Rotex]

she looks...cool, but i think they should have used a black supermodel or even a model.

 

[fiqary]

 

[Donatello89]

Savage diva.....

 

[Eccentricity]

i change my mind LOL i think this shoot is beautiful and beyonce is so iconic and stunning i love the textures and the metallic jewel tones against her skin

 

[Urban Stylin]

I dont think we should use the word 'blackface' it is not as innocent as it sounds. That said I loove the rest of the shots in the YT video..pretty awesome! Plus face painting is a very African thing to do so I dont think there's anything wrong here.

complexmedia

can't wait to see more

 

[Mchunu]

she looks absolutely smashing in the video. hopefully she can manage to translate that in her spread.

 

[fiqary]

Longer version:



and the cover:

beyoncenow

 

[fantastical]

finally a better image of the cover, and I must say, it's not that bad except for that gold lipstick. although I agree with those of you who said that an actual model could have pulled this off so much better (cough cough Anais Mali - who is actually french!). And I really don't get Beyonce being on the cover of their 90th anniversary issue, but whatevs. From the video they might actually have a good editorial depending on what shots make the final cut. It looks like they squeezed her into one of those Dolce corsets which looks insanely hot and I really like the styling for this shot

my screencap/youtube

 

[Breathless]

she looks great but she always give the same blank expressions.

 

[Urban Stylin]

i actually think she's perfect for this shoot than a model, African women are normally volumptuous and she does capture that essence in many of the looks from the ed

 

[lucy92]

this is a bad time for beyonce to have her skin darkened for a shoot as she has recently been accused of whitening her skin.

if l'officiel took advantage of the rumours...then thats horrible.