How dumb!!!
Vogue has come under fire for putting white model Karlie Kloss in a geisha outfit for March’s diversity issue (the same one that included a Photoshopped cover featuring Gigi Hadid, Ashley Graham, and Kendall Jenner, among others).
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People are understandably upset that there is yet another issue of white-washing when it would have been so easy to cast a Japanese model instead.
Several fashion blogs, like Fashionista and The Cut, called out the magazine for its tone-deaf portrayal, while many people online also expressed their disappointment.
They put Karlie Kloss in a Geisha in a Vogue DIVERSITY Issue… No one at Vogue thought this was a bad idea? Lol ok
— Philipp Raheem (@PhilippRaheem) February 15, 2017
My take on the Karlie Kloss Geisha controversy: The fault should be towards Vogue for including the shoot in their Diversity Issue.
— Jasril Nazmi (@jasrilnazmi) February 15, 2017
For real, Vogue? A photo shoot featuring Karlie Kloss as a geisha? In the so-called “diversity” issue, no less. https://t.co/bgpKXHw35N
— Angry Asian Man (@angryasianman) February 15, 2017
Karlie Kloss was styled as a geisha in the March issue of Vogue├óΓé¼ΓÇ£├óΓé¼ΓÇ£the theme of which is “diversity.”
This is not what diversity looks like. pic.twitter.com/aZixgzJsq9
— Fusion (@Fusion) February 15, 2017
yellowface is real and racist and karlie kloss just did it in vogue!!!!!
— simone (@balloonbreath) February 15, 2017
Meanwhile, others pointed out the irony of Karlie getting a six-page spread while actual diverse models Imaan Hammam and Liu Wen only got one photo each.
Karlie Kloss gets a 6-page spread in yellowface for Vogue’s DIVERSITY ISSUE… while Imaan Hammam & Liu Wen get one pic each… the irony pic.twitter.com/fXn9Ikz7ik
— Nerdy Asians (@NerdyAsians) February 15, 2017
Yeah, there are A LOT of things wrong with this so-called diversity issue. Really embarrassing for Vogue!
Karlie has since apologized for the “culturally insensitive” spread, but Vogue has yet to address it. And they probably won’t!
Read Karlie’s apology (below):
pic.twitter.com/Xem3dkaDZZ
— Karlie Kloss (@karliekloss) February 15, 2017
This is actually the supermodel’s second time being embroiled in a cultural appropriation issue.
Thoughts???
[Image via Vogue.]
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