Yawn, yawn, this month’s Italian Vogue features another segregation issue, “The Black Allure,” shot by British photographer Emma Summerton and styled by Edward Enninful. Don’t get me wrong, I like that models Joan Smalls, Jourdan Dunn, Arlenis Sosa, Chanel Iman, Ajak Deng and Anais Mali are working, but don’t I understand why this gimmick is such a big deal. It seems like a step back, segregation ended in the 60′s, why are they repeating it? Frankly, the all white issues they do the other eleven months of the year is as exciting as watching a pothole grow. There are two good things that have come out of this; one, I do like the fact that they are biting off of Harlem Renaissance style. Two, It’s a good thing that they continue to embrace all kinds of faces — and bodies.
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The Italian Black Vogue addition is Better than Nothing. Look at Essence
Magazine they don’t even put Black Models on their Cover anymore.
There is no reason why in the year 2011, that black women shouldn’t have
their own monthly fashion magazine (run & owned by them) and equally as
sleek as any Vogue addition. You would think, that when Italian Vogue
launched a website devoted to Black Models last year This would have challenged upper class black women in the Fashion Biz to the same
apparently not, Don’t expect White Europeans to do for us, what we are still not doing for ourselves.