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Supermodel Lara Stone poses in blackface for French Vogue photoshoot (art or racism?)
NY Daily News ^ | 10/13/09 | Nicole Carter

Posted on 10/14/2009 6:04:15 AM PDT by Libloather

Supermodel Lara Stone poses in blackface for French Vogue photoshoot
BY Nicole Carter DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, October 13th 2009, 1:27 PM

French Vogue has gotten into some more haute controversy.

This month's issue of the fashion magazine features a photoshoot with white supermodel Lara Stone in blackface, according to Jezebel.com.

No stranger to shocking shoots — it recently featured a faux-pregnant model smoking a cigarette— the magazine enlisted photographer Steven Klein to shoot the 14-page spread, styled by editor Carine Rotifeld.

The story that goes along with the photos praises Stone for her "radical break with the wave of anorexic models."

But the fashion world isn't alone in the blackface controversy.

A recent episode of "Mad Men" set in the 1960's — found Roger Sterling (played by John Slattery) hosting a party and entertaining in black face.

And last week, Harry Connick Jr. slammed contestants on an Australian variety show who performed a Jackson Five song in blackface.

As a judge, Connick Jr. gave the group a zero score. The show later apologized for the skit.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackface; french; supermodel; vogue
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White supermodel Lara Stone poses in blackface for a French Vogue photoshoot. Steven Klein/French Vogue


Photographer Steven Klein shot the 14-page spread with Stone. Steven Klein/French Vogue

1 posted on 10/14/2009 6:04:15 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

As long as she doesn’t dress up like Obammy...it’s ok.


2 posted on 10/14/2009 6:05:43 AM PDT by Dallas59 (No To O)
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To: Libloather

Is she a conservative? If so then it is racism...if she is a liberal, it’s the highest art form known to man.


3 posted on 10/14/2009 6:07:08 AM PDT by NMEwithin
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To: Libloather

Reminds me of my toast this morning.

Don’t you hate it when your kids turn the knob all the way over to cook some frozen breakfast thingy and then forget to turn it back?


4 posted on 10/14/2009 6:08:57 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Dallas59
Well those two pics in post number one bear a striking resemblance to the outfit he wore in Kenya.
I'm just sayin'.....
5 posted on 10/14/2009 6:09:10 AM PDT by verga (I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
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To: NMEwithin

Bingo.


6 posted on 10/14/2009 6:09:23 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: NMEwithin

The 14 page spread should be displayed by other art. Perhaps the jar of urine with the crucifix in it?


7 posted on 10/14/2009 6:10:31 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: verga

Ooooooooo.....then it’s Racism!


8 posted on 10/14/2009 6:11:44 AM PDT by Dallas59 (No To O)
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To: Abathar

Yes. Yes and yes again.


9 posted on 10/14/2009 6:14:36 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: Libloather
I think we have all reached the saturation point with the ‘Arab culture’ thing ..... It lost its novelty by now.
10 posted on 10/14/2009 6:19:17 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: Libloather
Assuming she's a “progressive” then it's “art”.
11 posted on 10/14/2009 6:20:52 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: Libloather

She looks very convincing as a black woman. Quite African. If makeup is that good, I need to make myself black and my chances of getting a job might be improved.


12 posted on 10/14/2009 6:25:15 AM PDT by ottbmare (I could agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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To: Libloather

Oh my, is this what First Frump will wear to the Oscars, er, the Emmys, er, the Tonys, er, the Nobel Awards??

Although, now that I look at it, the crown may be a bit too small to fit, and a bit too, understated. That’s it. The whole outfit is too understated for MO, so forget it. Move along.


13 posted on 10/14/2009 6:31:06 AM PDT by Happyinmygarden (Yes, actually, I have pretty much seen and heard it all before...)
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To: Libloather
Has anyone else but me noticed that the word racism has been so bastardized that it's lost any meaning? How does putting on black makeup mean that you think blacks are inferior? It only means you're putting on black makeup for an attention-getting publicity ploy. Nothing more.

HOw about when Oprah's ugly mug is on a magazine cover every month with her straightened hair and surgically altered nose? Is she trying to look white?

14 posted on 10/14/2009 6:37:33 AM PDT by Lizavetta (In Communism, everything is free. But there isn't any of it.)
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To: Libloather

Did they borrow he necklace from Meeshell?

Regard that black face it looks like a spray on tan burn.


15 posted on 10/14/2009 6:43:30 AM PDT by Global2010 (Strange We Can Believe In)
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To: Libloather

Of course it racism. Everything white people do concerns racism.


16 posted on 10/14/2009 6:43:52 AM PDT by MBB1984
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To: Libloather

She must not have gotten the memo about the Boob Belt being Haute Couture this year.


17 posted on 10/14/2009 6:44:23 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Libloather
She's not "in blackface" as that term is properly applied to a specific character from nineteenth-century popular entertainment--the "blackface minstrel".

I see a woman of extraordinary beauty wearing sumptuous "oriental" costume in very, very, dark make-up. Much ado about nothing.

18 posted on 10/14/2009 6:48:20 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: Libloather
Its not like its....

19 posted on 10/14/2009 6:49:10 AM PDT by Global2010 (Strange We Can Believe In)
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To: Libloather
She looks better black.


20 posted on 10/14/2009 6:51:12 AM PDT by Iron Munro (When seconds count, the police are only minutes away)
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