Dutch model Lara Stone / french Vogue photo by Steven Klein

White model was painted black for a fashion spread in french Vogue. it was done with the intention of cutting edge modernism, 14 page of high fashion done in a taste. No big lips or with ill intention. But never the less, its have drawn a debate and make international press.

“What Klein and Roitfeld should know is that painting white people black for the entertainment of other white people is offensive in ways that stand entirely apart from cultural context,” it said. “France and Australia may not have the United States’ particular history of minstrel shows but something about the act of portraying a white woman as black ought to sound an alarm, somewhere.” US blog Jezebel

Dominique Sopo, president of the French organisation SOS Racisme, said that even if the shoot was not racist in intention it was certainly “tactless”.

read full article: French Vogue: outrage over ‘blacked-up’ model @ telegraph

Dutch model Lara Stone / french Vogue photo by Steven Klein

Dutch model Lara Stone / french Vogue photo by Steven Klein