Monday, March 10, 2008

blacklisted

Jourdan Dunn photographed by David Slijper
for the March 2008 issue of Dazed and Confused


What a shame this is the kind of editorial work up-and-coming model Jourdan Dunn is offered. I hope we're not at a point that putting a black model in black face is ironic or glamorous. And don't even get me started on Ben Stiller.

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1 comment:

Leigh said...

and now, for your feminist fashion theories:

1. homogenization of beauty standards. she's black in real life, so they feel the need to "cover" her blackness--literally.

2. reduction of women in media images to literally nothing: an empty void looks better in the dress than an actual woman.