Because being black is actually an acceptable standard of beauty in other countries!!!
Shala Monroque editor of Pop Magazine is featured in “Island In The Sun” for Vogue Japan January 2012 photographed by Tommy Ton.
Vogue JAPAN!
Wow.
See. WTF is wrong with the U.S.? Has Vogue U.S. done extensive spreads with black people/models like this before? I wanna say Beyonce, Rihanna, um…Michelle Obama (was that Vogue?), Oprah many a moon ago I think, and the usual models (Naomi, I think, Tyra I’m pretty sure and….Iman, Beverly Johnson) have been on either covers or just in it somewhere or whatever. But I don’t recall full on SPREADS outside of articles where it’s like oh, look, a picture of them and A LOT of words for some pages and BAM! 2-4 more pix and oh look, it’s over. 0_o
I don’t buy it so I don’t know. I hear stuff. Maybe pick one up if someone I like and recognize is on the cover and browse…but yeah.
It just seems like Vogue Everywhere else is doing more than Vogue U.S. 0_o. SEEMS! educate me, please… :)