One of my favorite things to do on my past time, or my anytime is to log on to my twitter account and tweet my little heart out along with my friends and some very cool strange people I follow. In doing so, I find some very interesting articles and links that catch my attention such as this one and It makes me feel the need to speak. What you see above is black face on an Dutch supermodel Lara stone in a shoot photographed by Steven Klein styled by editor Carine Rotifield of French Vogue. Unfamiliar with the term black face? Well, so you know Webster had this to say about it; noun: 1.Makeup for a conventionalized comic travesty of Black people, especially in a minstrel show. 2.An actor wearing such makeup in a minstrel show. Now I don't know about you, but when I look at this, I think when will it end? I don't see fierce photo shoot, I don't see high fashion, I don't see artistry. Something else blocks all of the normalcy for me. I don't know, perhaps it's the "comic travesty of black people" thing. I mean really am I wrong to assume that there is something else behind this then doing "something different" to sell magazines? People have suffered, and fought and, marched and died trying to fight for the rights of African Americans along with other ethnicity's. Have some respect. This is not cool. Like a lot of industries, fashion has its fair share of racism, Iman, Naomi Campbell and Alek Wek are some models in the past and present that have been brave enough to publicly address the issue. I'm all for fashion and the arts but when do we draw the line between haute-couture and haute-mess??? Please speak on it, I'd love to know how you feel.
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