Haute controversy! WTF is up with the foreigners and Blackface this month? Dutch supermodel Lara Stone has sparked outrage after posing in Blackface for a photoshoot featured in the October issue of French Vogue – recently the same publication that recently featured a faux-pregnant model smoking a cigarette.
Steven Klein shot the 14-page highly-distasteful spread with Stone — who was styled by by editor Carine Rotifeld.
Take a look at these photos from shoot and let us know what you think, Stylistas! Does this shoot push the envelope a bit too far?
Former supermodel Tyra Banks is flaunting her newly slimmed down body in a sexy photoshoot on the streets of New York. The Emmy winner displays her svelte figure in a slim-fitting shift dress, looking much thinner than the infamous swimsuit picture of her taken in 2007.
“I always feel great when I don’t have clothes on. When I told the world to kiss my fat ass, I remained that size for two years. I maintained it with my ice cream and my salad with ranch and dressing and croutons and bacon bits.”
Well she’s not “maintaining” anymore.
Tyra, host of America’s Next Top Model, has dropped down from size 14-16 to size 8 thanks to a regime of diet and exercise.
Kanye’s bald-headed “Buss It Baby” Amber Rose is working hard on her modeling career — just look at all the trashy posing she’s doing in the October issue of Elle.
Naomi Campbell believes the recession is preventing black models getting work.
The outspoken supermodel claims advertising executives shy away from using ethnic models in their campaigns because they “don’t dare” risk losing sales.
“This year, we have gone back all the way that we had advanced. I don’t see any black woman, or of any other race, in big advertising campaigns,” Naomi lamented in Sunday’s issue of The Telegraph.
Last summer, the volatile 39-year-old appeared in Vogue Italia’s Black Issue, in celebration of Black women in fashion.
“That made some noise but, unfortunately, we are the same as before. People, in the panic of recession, don’t dare to put a girl of colour in their campaign, full stop.”
Wal-Mart has introduced a new apparel and accessories line inspired by Nickelodeon’s hit series True Jackson, VP, starring ultra-talented young actress Keke Palmer. Mad Style by True Jackson offers everything from sneakers to dresses at $14 or under.
The line also features long sleeved t-shirts; layerable graphics tee with positive messages; fashion leggings; jumper dresses; tunic dresses; Mary Janes; ballet flats; and sneakers.
The NY Times has learned that Naomi Sims, the world’s first black supermodel, died of cancer in Newark, New Jersery on Saturday. She was 61.
Sims broke barriers when she appeared on the cover of Ladies Home Journal in 1968 — becoming the first African-American model to do so on a mainstream women’s magazine.
Later in life, Sims expanded her business to include cosmetics and fragrances, and wrote advice novels, including How to be a Top Model and All About Health and Beauty for the Black Woman, published in 1986.
She is survived by her son Robert, her daughter, Betty, and a granddaughter.
