Vogue Australia September 2023 : Tarlisa Gaykamangu by Robbie Fimmano

[Kiyoko]

Is it the first cover featuring an aboriginal model?

Samantha Harris ; Magnolia Maymura & Cindy Rostron have also been cover models.

If Tarlisa was smiling this would be great but it’s a missed opportunity sadly.

 

[kokobombon]

The photography is so bad imo that I thought this was a white model doing blackface

 

[Phuel]

Why is the photo so dark? Like she posed with a light behind her, not in front. Because I see the light on her shoulder, just not her face or the rest of her body. Just the shoulder.

Likely because if they dared play with the lighting, there will be the usual faux-outrage accusations of her being whitewashed.

Even after all these years on TFS, I just adore Bertrando for how unwaveringly passionate he remains to an ideal of fashion.

I’m so jaded, so cynical, so beaten and so tired of the shallow/hollow/trendy virtue-signalling infestation the industry has resorted to begging for likes/follows from commoners that will never give a fcuk about putting in the sweat/blood/tears high fashion anyway— but will sucker them into paying for some overpriced basics just because they’re apparently “represented” in their magazine/campaign/show. In an era where even the medical/health industry are cowering to the mob and posting that it’s perfectly fine to be obese and that there’s no such truth as biological sex, why wouldn’t the shallow fashion industry also cower and give the delusional mob what they want, with the lowest of the standards of talent/beauty/style being championed instead of only the highest of standards??? These are such days. Eh.

Rant aside LOL ...She can be striking. She has the sharply graphic bone structure, that piercing predatory gaze, and ebony skin that looks unreal— like a character out of a Rousseau painting. If only these chosen creatives were capable of showcasing her in the highest of creative standards, then they’d be on to something. Or, if they were allowed to photograph her with a sensibility that’s elevated, even just a tad, beyond this flat-lighting ad stringy hair, and smoulder-less stoic expression. Instead, she really has the same expression in every shot… I get it: To even suggest she’s sensual would enrage the mob ready with their torch and pitchfork accusations of anyone daring of objectifying an aboriginal model— because apparently fashion models are no longer fashion models, but representatives and ambassadors for their people LOL Just have a gander through Franca’s/Carine’s/Emmanuelle’s Vogues and imagine what could have been with her shot by Testino/Sorrenti/Sims etc etc. But of course the reality is that Vogue is a school project by those raised on social justice 101 (First-World problems version), with the creative references of Tyra’s 10th season ANTM/Project Runway/Rupaul’s Drag Race… :sigh:

It’s also so obvious that Christine is so blatantly desperate to out-diversify Edward's Vogue LOL If anyone didn’t know of her country’s ethnic makeup, they’d think that it were primarily an aboriginal and Black population LMFAO …Anyway, 310pg: 3 original fashions stories and 3 reprints, with that dreaded Rafael monstrosity of a mess being one of them. Of course.

 

[Bertrando3]

Even after all these years on TFS, I just adore Bertrando for how unwaveringly passionate he remains to an ideal of fashion.

Why wouldn’t the shallow fashion industry also cower and give the delusional mob what they want, with the lowest of the standards of talent/beauty/style being championed instead of only the highest of standards??? These are such days. Eh.

To even suggest she’s sensual would enrage the mob ready with their torch and pitchfork accusations of anyone daring of objectifying an aboriginal model— because apparently fashion models are no longer fashion models, but representatives and ambassadors for their people LOL Just have a gander through Franca’s/Carine’s/Emmanuelle’s Vogues and imagine what could have been with her shot by Testino/Sorrenti/Sims etc etc. But of course the reality is that Vogue is a school project by those raised on social justice 101 (First-World problems version), with the creative references of Tyra’s 10th season ANTM/Project Runway/Rupaul’s Drag Race… :sigh:

It’s also so obvious that Christine is so blatantly desperate to out-diversify Edward's Vogue LOL If anyone didn’t know of her country’s ethnic makeup, they’d think that it were primarily an aboriginal and Black population LMFAO …Anyway, 310pg: 3 original fashions stories and 3 reprints, with that dreaded Rafael monstrosity of a mess being one of them. Of course.

I loved reading every single word you used and I don't think I ever wanted to have the ''give karma button'' back on the forums, as much as today with you Phuel ahahaa.

I think I will always love fashion photography and a certain ideal of the fashion industry and perhaps I am stuck between 1986 and 2005 and it's indeed quite hard for me to let it all go : the super fierce models of the 90's + the legendary photographers from that era + the name first designers + the state of magazines back then 30 years ago + the beauty in ads with glamazon looking female models and semi-god handsome male supers of that era + the real old-school designers like Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, Jeanne Lanvin and a certain class of the people worldwide and a certain economy too lol and so on.

And I also believe, like you mentioned, that the standards have changed so so much and my ideal ''vision'' of fashion that I referred to is clashing so harshly against what I see today:
- no sex anywhere because it's considered bad to show it in magazines or in advertising
- the gen z generation / the tiktok nonsense / influencers who have never dedicated an afternoon to know about fashion or photography as a whole or to learn 10 names of this industry
- people nowadays who are not able to truly get the difference between let's say a Linda or a Raquel with girls like Emily Ratajkowski or Kendall or anyone else with fake ''likes'' on social media.
- plus like you also mentioned editors like Christine at Vogue Australia or Edward at British Vogue who vie for people's acceptance or world recognition that they are inclusivity warriors
etc.

I haven't bought a single magazine in the past 8 years and I was such an avid collector for half of my life but it's not interesting anyways these days. Again as you asked: where are the standards today? Where's beauty? It's just there now to please mobs of people who loved to be offended and demand ferociously just about anything they can think of and who grew up in today's world with ''social justice'' syndrome, like you perfectly mentioned (I loved the [First-World problems version] quote you used ahahaha ). It's the same as my students these days or kids now: they ask, they demand, they are eager to receive but wait : where are your obligations and duties ??? .

I fear that, as much as I would love and still want to see many many models and people who are black / asian / white / latino and every single skin tone of the planet that it will only be used like here as a scam or like a token moment just to justify or please a certain mob.

 

[Deleted member 116957]

I’m honestly still scratching my head at the supposed “mobs” people like you and Pheul constantly complain about.. there are no “mobs” these people are trying to please/not offend. These editors are grasping at straws.

 

[Phuel]

^^^ LOL Perhaps if you’re willing to volunteer some time on socials where there’s a dedicated population just waiting for the slightest slip from any fashion imagery: Carine being blasted for posting that she just sees Anok is her friend and apparently not “acknowledging” Anok as a “Black” friend; people faux-outraging that dark-skinned models are “lightened”/whitewashed when it’s just the style of lighting and postproduction; accusations of misogyny/patriarchy when fashion models are shot with— god forbid, exposed nips etc etc. Yes, there is a mob and the editors aren’t just such generous, kind and all-conscientious socialists in 2023 begging for phantom likes/follows.

 

[Deleted member 116957]

Okay… so the mob is chronically online teenagers? Again, who cares?

 

[NYLA22]

I’m honestly still scratching my head at the supposed “mobs” people like you and Pheul constantly complain about.. there are no “mobs” these people are trying to please/not offend. These editors are grasping at straws.

Lol just go on the Diet Prada comments for two seconds. Masses of people looking to find something to be angry about without a second of actual thought behind the outrage.

 

[NYLA22]

Okay… so the mob is chronically online teenagers? Again, who cares?

People care because careers can be damaged by the online mobs. Reputations can be harmed unfairly.

 

[Deleted member 116957]

So I’m supposed to believe that magazine editors can’t create half decent fashion editorials because they’re afraid of this alleged woke mob of millions of diet prada, et al ~wOkEStERs~. Sorry, smells like bullsh*t to me! Fashion magazines were able to thrive under much more restrictive times in the past.

 

[YourMonster]

People who complain about woke mobs and gender this and diversity that are the most dramatic people on this forum- it's getting old.

 

[tigerrouge]

Expressing your own opinion will never get old (or to use the more favoured word of this forum - 'elderly').

Magazines are a commercial product, and any potential customer of a commercial product gets to have an opinion on why it does (or doesn't) appeal to them. Being cynical about marketing can suck the fun out of life, but it's far better than being gullible.

People don't realise how much immersion in social media influences them to think and act on an adolescent level, no matter what age they actually are. People who are willing to swim against the current - or just stay out of the water - have interesting perspectives to add into the mix.

 

[Phuel]

^^^ LOL There will always be sheep that simply go with the flow and have no opinions. Eh. But still hilarious how they will post a complaint— complaining about the people that are so "dramatically" complaining about the woke mob LOL Instead, perhaps bring in your own POV, and contribute to why “woke” is so creatively, progressively enriching to the production of fashion imagery and presentation??? Because other than representation, woke has been the fashion equivalent of a sloppy black hole. But if one would rather believe that none of these messy choices are not the least politically-motivated, then more power to them in their delusion... (It's like flat-Earthers: All the evidence is there that the Earth is round. But...)