Eccentricity
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Simple economics and social/cultural politics
white dominance within general population = white representation, hence the overwhelming amount of white models on covers. Thats the demographic for Vogue, white middle class woman; with variations of fashion savvy heterosexual man and homosexual fans.
Shulman seems to be neglecting ethnic miniorities within the pages of British Vogue in particular, there is rarely any Black presence in the magazine in itself; even editorially, the last black woman was Noami in August 2004 (and that was based upon tremendous tabloid intrest following Piers Morgan exposing Campbell of attending Rehabilitation meetings - the feature was entitled "Scoop").
The fundamentall problem is the reluctance to embrace beauty as beauty; an objective physical characteristic and shunning economic implications (so maybe a black girl wont sell as well) in favour of fair representation and what fits the mold at that time.
Jennifer Hudson and Chanel Iman have been featured on Vogue this year in America, but thats only based upon Andre Leon Talley interest in both parties, would they have been included if there wasnt an African-American editor internally within the Vogue Team? No.
Racial Equality should be prevalent even within the mass media - the entertainment industry is notoriously tough on ethnic minorities and blacks, and this whole notion has to be eradicated.
Put Chanel on a cover. Put Hye on a cover. Put Joy Bryant or Kerry Washington if you must favour actresses.
We live in a diverse world. Its about time we see this realised in print, too.
white dominance within general population = white representation, hence the overwhelming amount of white models on covers. Thats the demographic for Vogue, white middle class woman; with variations of fashion savvy heterosexual man and homosexual fans.
Shulman seems to be neglecting ethnic miniorities within the pages of British Vogue in particular, there is rarely any Black presence in the magazine in itself; even editorially, the last black woman was Noami in August 2004 (and that was based upon tremendous tabloid intrest following Piers Morgan exposing Campbell of attending Rehabilitation meetings - the feature was entitled "Scoop").
The fundamentall problem is the reluctance to embrace beauty as beauty; an objective physical characteristic and shunning economic implications (so maybe a black girl wont sell as well) in favour of fair representation and what fits the mold at that time.
Jennifer Hudson and Chanel Iman have been featured on Vogue this year in America, but thats only based upon Andre Leon Talley interest in both parties, would they have been included if there wasnt an African-American editor internally within the Vogue Team? No.
Racial Equality should be prevalent even within the mass media - the entertainment industry is notoriously tough on ethnic minorities and blacks, and this whole notion has to be eradicated.
Put Chanel on a cover. Put Hye on a cover. Put Joy Bryant or Kerry Washington if you must favour actresses.
We live in a diverse world. Its about time we see this realised in print, too.
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, Linda, etc.). And black models aren't on covers or hardly in magazines because they're are hardly any good black models out there. You have to have a look that appeals to many faces, not just people like us on tFS. And the only faces I see like that these days are Jordan Dunn & Chanel Iman (somewhat). And they are hardly doing anything. Sorry if I didn't make sense and if I got off topic, this was just the stuff that was in my wierd head.
It's how she said it. Yes, she mentions "equal prominence", but at the same time she did say not enough "blacks" in Vogue. IMO* If she says "equal prominence" concerning ethnic groups of models, why just catogorize it to say one particular race, "not enough blacks"? TO ME, I felt she should have added more mixes to her argument and mention some other ethnic backgrounds as well to back up her quote of "equal prominence". That's all I was trying to say. I would never think she favors only her race, that would be ignorance in my part. 
Karma!
