The new British Vogue cover featuring all-African models

From the man himself:

[quote] British Vogue’s February Issue Celebrates The Rise Of The African Model

[quote] quite impressive

What in particular? The amorphous shapes. The fact you can't see any faces or individual personality?

Are they corpses?

First look

Oh they went uber, super dark chocolate black.

I wanna see ultra white, powder people.

"Fuck YAAAAS Queen!"

Good lord, grow up

Dashes of color

Why did they Photoshop them to look like licorice?

Good grief this world. I do. I loathe it.

More at the Instagram account of Mr Enniful

These women are as beautiful as me.

[quote]Fuck YAAAAS Queen!

Good lord, grow up

FIERCE!

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[quote] FIERCE!

They are as fierce as the legendary Blue/Black Boadicea in those days of yore!

Is that the Prancing Elites?

Serious question….but did they darken their photos?

Although I have seen people this dark in New York, it’s still unusual. Most black people do not have skin this dark, and it would have been a challenge to recruit them.

Was it someone’s JOB to pick out the darkest-skinned women they could find?

That’s as distasteful as choosing women for their light complexions.

Its Gimmick style. It's an update of Hottentot fetishism. YAWN!

[quote] edward_enninful Verified It has always held true, even in the future-shaping world of fashion, that genuine change does not happen overnight. In an industry that is forever looking forward, where society’s evolutions are shaped and charted in styles both nuanced and grand-scale, it is not always the case that proclamation equals transformation. So, as we move into a new year in earnest, I want to take a moment to reflect – and happily so – on the fact that somewhere, deep in its core, over the course of a relatively few short years, fashion has indeed changed. It’s a truth reflected in our two extraordinary February @BritishVogue covers. See the full story in the new issue, on newsstands Tuesday 18 January, and click the link in my bio to read in full.

"Was it someone's JOB..."

No, this exact group just happened to walk in to the photo shoot at the same time

I actually love the cover and the styling, but fuck Enninful. There's something nasty and evil about him.

They look like angry burned insects, who’ve just finished feasting on white people. Some of them are still wearing their bibs.

They may be wearing their bibs but they removed their plates.

What is your damage R24 ?

This is the man in charge

I think most of the models are very beautiful and interesting looking but the photographer did them a major disservice with the photos. You can see from the other photos that they are not inkblots and see their beautiful faces.

A lot of industrial strength vaseline used in that shot.

This looks like some twisted fetishism to me, these women are presented as objects not people. They may as well be masks or sculptures in an ethnographic museum.

yes, they are stunning, but it does look rather gimmicky, the photographer used them more as props

I don't understand all of the fuss. Fashion photography has long favored people who stand out in some way, I've seen plenty of models with unusually pale alabaster skin. I'm not surprised photographers would try depicting the opposite end of the skin color spectrum.

This British Vogue cover is "Fashion photography" trying to attain the level of True Art.

r5 Even I had to wonder if they put them in blackface.

The photographer, Rafael Pavarotti, originally from Brazil

I like it. The model are gorgeous but it does kind of look like fetishcism

The photographer seems to have a certain Style

I guess I'm a fashion moron because I don't get this. I don't get the point of gathering these beautiful women with such beautiful skin and then hiding them in that background. It's bizarre.

I don’t mind the models looking dark in the pictures, but the lighting and background just seem off and the models are getting lost in the picture. Usually when they photograph models with very light skin, they don’t have them pose in the snow.

well, it's nothing groundbreaking... like "Yo Mama's Last Supper"

eldergays might remember the controversy that one caused.

it was mediocre work but the reaction was legendary.

Guliani was foaming at the mouth for months.

The cover is striking, but the model's faces are so strangely lit their features are hard to distinguish, just a few strokes in a mass of black. Weird choice if the goal was to highlight black women.

They are beautiful but yeah, the lighting is terrible. You could hardly see their gorgeous faces.

Is this like that OJ Simpson cover where they made him darker with editing tools?

The October cover from Vogue Africa—

Zendaya on the cover of Africa Vogue, that’s a completely uninspired and mundane choice.

The girl with the purple scarf looks as if she’s just about to close her eyes and take a nap? Great idea, great opportunity, great models, horrible photographer.

And not one of them has their natural hair. Yeah progress.

It seems very racist to have darkened the image like that and create an image that looks like a stereotype.

This shows the fetishizing of Africans more than anything else. The dark skin is presented as exotic "shock value" next to the western hairstyle looking like wigs with the skinny stick body type fit for western "fashion" mannequins.

[quote] This British Vogue cover is "Fashion photography" trying to attain the level of True Art.

It isn't "trying to attain the level of True Art", it is straining to attain it. It is straining and bleeding in the process.

I appreciate the more diverse casting of Edward's Vogue, but I find it odd that south Asian women are rarely part of the mix when they represent a larger minority in Britain (and the Commonwealth itself) and have more buying power.

R47, if you think that white fashion models have their “natural hair”, then you probably also believe in Santa.

One of those chicks with a dude like this would make for a very interesting porn scene!

We used to call them 'skillet blondes'.

What say Darfur Orphan?

The lighting is so poor the pics are flat. Fail.

r53 much, much too political for youngsters today.

R56 They used a filter to make it look flat. It's an intentional choice.

If they wanted to be daring they should put all men on the cover.

R53 It could be the 2020s ode to the 80s power couple of Grace Jones and Dolph Lundgren.

The photos seem to be a bit of a miss, far too little contrast. Unfortunately Vogue Italia did it better… in 2008.

Gotta Have a Gimmick

Albino people are beautiful as are noir black people as are everyone in between! We're all beautiful!

A Grace Jones fan.

I thought Grace Jones was Jamaican.

r62 then you might want to avoid LSA's discussion on this

I think it’s beautiful.

However, underexposing the photo so that you can even tell where one person stops and another begins, was taking it a little far.

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[Quote]We're all beautiful!

Even this?

The only reason I know Enninful's name is because he editorial after editorial at W featuring blonde white models being contorted, chopped into pieces, and covered in blood.

I thought, who is this psychopath? It was Enninful. He has ISSUES beyond issues.

Magazine issues?

Munroe Bergdorf is horrid

Takes a LOT of smoke, mirrors, SCALPELS, and fard to make Munroe Bergdorf into something feminine.

[quote] Munroe Bergdorf

He is a brainless, transvestite fool.

He gets sacked from every woke position given to him.

He relies on superior photoshopping and superior wig making.

I can barely see the clothes.

I can't see the skill of the dressmakers.

There is an excess of make-up.

[quote] "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" Voltaire, 1769.

If Munroe Bergdorf did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

And like the inventor of the webpage popup ad the inventor would live in shame and infamy

I look forward to this issue.

I will ask the courtiers to pick up a copy.

Blacks doing blackface.

We've come full circle guys.

[quote]This looks like some twisted fetishism to me, these women are presented as objects not people.

They're models. That's the point.

r72 racist, much?

r76

why are the backgrounds so dark? were they afraid that people might see that they are black? Are people that sensitive that they can't see them as they are? What little I can make out looks beautiful, such a shame they wasted it with the dark background.

Black only is racism.

R80 Is that the Uk version of Hamilton?

Over-amplified and over-sensationalised with inaudible and insensible lyrics.

The horrific opposite.

This cover makes me happy.

How much does it cost?

So much blackamoor!

I looked up most of the models and they are very beautiful women, but as others have said the lighting and styling is bizarre. There is a very good reason why many black women tend to prefer white or colorful clothing, if they are very dark skinned black clothing washes them out. Just as most very pasty white women, tend to not wear a lot of white outside of their weddings. If you ever go to a black person's funeral you will notice all the white dresses, not black ones, for this very reason.

What I see is a bunch of very beautiful black women being reduced to being blank black avatars, which doesn't seem like progress.

Beautiful and high time. However, purely aesthetically, I don't like it so much. All the black clothing is a little dour and the background color is meh. But kudos!

I can't tell if this is photoshopped or not. I really hope not. People are Sudan are well known for having similar skintones.

I think it looks amazing. I'll take this over Kimye or Billie "Talentless Hack" Eilish anytime.

Wow I’m really impressed if its real. I’d be more impressed if they will cover all Asians.

[quote] progress.

We want Progress!

We are Progressive and we demand that Vogue give it to us!

I think it's interesting.

I can appreciate this. Enninful is Ghanaian so it’s cool to see real black Africanism in high fashion instead of Africanism through the perspective of a black American like Beyonce.

R90 Why? Enninful is African. Expect to see more Africans in British Vogue. It’s worked like that for white people forever, yeah?

[quote] Zendaya on the cover of Africa Vogue

Why, R45? That's wrong!

And I'm not surprised that these are the comments coming from the DL. Thank goodness I do not look for validation in the narrow vision of gay white men

That lighting was a choice.

So was the styling.

Also not putting any full-figured models in the bunch.

Not sure it's sending a positive message. Feels really, really off.

A shame.

[quote]I can't tell if this is photoshopped or not.

This is the model at R4.

[quote] Thank goodness I do not look for validation in the narrow vision of gay white men.

R97, I'm guessing your schoolteachers and your parent (or your parents) gave you validation.

But do you still need validation to get through your adult life?

Have Grace Jones or Iman commented yet?

"I'm gonna cut those bitches."

Ive seen some very beautiful dark skinned women,and those bitches arent. Whats with their legs ? They look like sticks .

It's a gorgeous cover. I'm browsing on a phone and I can see their faces clearly so I don't get why you're bitching about not seeing their faces. A much bigger glossy paper cover will show them even better.

BTW at first glance I read the headline as Fashion Noir and I can't help but wonder if that was a deliberate move by the editor and the graphic designer.

Even without the commentary about the skin color it's a remarkable cover aesthetically in the sea of same old, same old. And yes, in a fashion shoot models are basically dolls for the photographer and the art director, even if they are super models. They are tools to achieve the end product. That's the way it is and everyone in the industry obviously knows it. First and foremost this is a fashion shoot. Everything else is secondary even if the subject matter is groundbreaking in some way.

[quote] They are tools to achieve the end product.

What is the end product?

[Quote] I've seen some very beautiful dark skinned women,and those bitches arent. Whats with their legs ? They look like sticks!

Totally agree with R103. They are way too skinny for me.

And I've seen hot guys with that color of skin.

I need British Vogue to do my thinking for me.

This opinion piece is not just virtue-signalling, it is Malthusian!

(You will need to look up 'Malthusian' in the dictionary)

[quote] It's a gorgeous cover.

Obviously

r52, White models may not use their "natural" hair, but all of those models on the cover have straight hair wigs. If they really wanted to celebrate blackness, then at least have some braids, textured, curly, or afro hair.

It’s British Vogue: it’s irrelevant.

Cutting edge

Where is the plus size representation? Where is the trans, disabled and neurodivergent representation?

Shake the Bigots out

No one is that BLACK! Goddamn, some of them look like they're in blackface.

They are wearing Nubian Blue Black face cream.

I'm obsessed with dark skin to the point I fear it might be (and hope it isn't) fetishization. Stunning models, but I would've used the bright colored outfits shot for the cover. They really look exceptionally good against that complexion.

The models are unique. Even in Africa, only certain groups like Nubians and other Niolitic peoples from around the Sudan and certain West African Sahelians from Chad to Senegal, are generally that dark. I'm just surprised it took so long for the fashion industry to catch on.

As for Mr Enningful, you can't deny he's radically changed British Vogue and made it interesting and relevant again. The magazine was a dud having become stale before he became editor.

Hard to believe how Enninful ever got this position. From day one he's been completely unqualified.

[quote] As for Mr Enningful, you can't deny he's radically changed British Vogue and made it interesting and relevant again.

Do you buy this magazine, R117?

Visually, it's quite cool, but doesn't it seem a bit gimmicky and tacky?

My god, Ike come look at this magazine. It’s got a much of darkies on the cover!!! Not just darkies, but almost blue, darkies!!!!

Do you think you could get us a few for the plantation? We would be the envy of the neighborhood!

The clothes magazine looks as pleasant and inviting as a Henry Moore.

^ Henry Moore was another of the dead ends in 20th century art.

WTF with this hair talk.

I work for a beauty supply company. That means I work with hair salons.

White people do NOT own straight hair.

White women use flat irons, straightening creams, straightening gels. Most white people have naturally wavy / curly hair. Naturally frizzy and wavy.

And 50% of our business are hair extensions.

ASIANS have naturally straight hair. Human hair wigs and extensions come from Asians.

This idea that straight hair is anti-black is obnoxious.

Black hair is not straight. That is a fact.

I reserve my right to comment until Patsy Stone makes a public statement on the cover.

The actual styling is evocative of the 1940s, especially (weirdly, in my opinion) of Fascist and Social Realist fashions of that era. Lots of coiled 'dos, shoulder pads, and harsh lines.

The models are gorgeous, dark skin is gorgeous. The cover shot is aesthetically beautiful.

Styling them monochromatic ally, wearing black suits that almost look like Nazi uniforms- what is Enninful saying? The hair, in my mind, just highlights that that referencing is intentional. They look like African Eva Brauns.

R116 Leni was avant-garde! First she served up Aryan fetichism, then Nubian.

Leni, however, was a artist of reproduction and knew to get enough light on her subjects, and balance the image overall, even is eh was very fond of shadow.

excuse my typing. Leni, however, was AN artist of reproduction and knew to get enough light on her subjects, and balance the image overall, even THOUGH SHE was very fond of shadow.

Of course, people were outraged by her fetishism and she deserved the pushback because she was white and well, a NAZI. But this fashion editor and photographer is black so you know, gets a pass and people think its fabulous.

Jean-Paul Goude, white, French, came in for it for doing similar racism slapjack, 2-3 decades after his work for and with Grace Jones. Suddenly, it wasn't OK.

But blacks doing it to employee black models. No problem.

Whatever.

I don't find the lighting productive here.

I shot fashion shows for 4 seasons. Everyone says the same thing. MAKE SURE TO SHOW THE CLOTHES.

Pretty girls, must admitt.

They all look confused.

[quote] Where is the plus size representation? Where is the trans, disabled and neurodivergent representation? —Never enough!

r112. In ads, lots in the entertainment, etc. for the masses. Not everyone's entitled to British Vogue just by having those identities.

Anyway, yes, two stunning black models who caught my eyes turned out to be Sudanese Australians, Adut Akech above and Duckie Thot.

Oh my! R133

R125 You’re right it’s not. And guess what? They use the same tools white people use to straighten their hair. That’s my point.

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Actual progress would be having a black cover model once in awhile, of varying shades. This just looks like fetishism, or a rebellious act, e.g. "you think dark-skinned black people are less desirable than lighter skinned black people??? Take THIS!!!!"

I expect the one lighter-skinned model was included so people wouldn't say it was fetishism, or to give defenders an excuse "but there's a lighter skinned model too!"

The lighting on this, the colors, all indicate that the editor and photographer were masturbating furiously.

Actual Africans are not impressed

Lol at "reverse bleaching".

They look like mannequins

Edward Enneful

and a cover of models that look like they eat Beneful

"We think it's fabulous."

They're fabulous!

Vermicious Knids

Looks like a giant turd from Chrissy M or Roxane

They’re beautiful women who are photographed without consideration of the beauty of their faces or bodies or how they make the clothing look - which is the entire point of fashion models. It’s all about how dark they are.

Which is nasty, IMO.

Reminds me of the cover of the African Baby Catalogue.

r124, Most Asians have straight hair, but there is a large Japanese and Korean contingent that have curly hair (Sandra Oh)., and it's considered undesirable. Did you not know that Japanese Yuko hair straightening system came out in the 90's, Brazilian in the 2000's?

Meanwhile I have completely straight hair and would love some curls.

It's a nice fashion pic but is obviously fetishizing them. Whatever. Mags are dying and this gets Enninful some PR. Elsewhere I saw some white girls exclaiming how gorgeous it is and that they'd make the effort to buy it.

Not dark enough, r133.

Are they burning copies in the streets of London in protest?

"I find it...reductive."

Is that good?

"Look it up."

It's cool they used models with lovely dark complexions. Representation in the form of various skin tones is good. However, I'm tired of the stick thin, emaciated body types that are supposed to represent high fashion. Ditto the other extreme: "plus size" and "curvy" models who are really just obese. Why is there no middle ground? Why can't they use healthy women with hourglass figures (feminine curves with a small waist). That shape is actually an uncommon body type, which [italic]should[/italic] fit in with fashion's elitist marketing strategy.

The photographer and editor on this shoot made poor artistic choices. These images don't flatter the models or the clothes.

You'd think Vogue could get a photographer who had the skill to light to photo well enough that the women of different skin tones wouldn't all look like blobs of darkness.

I'd give the idea a 6/10 (10 years ago it would have been a 9/10), but the execution a 1/10.

Check the girls on instagram, it's not light, it's überblackface like in r85 link.

All models black, good.

All black outfits, ridiculous.

Backgrounds, poor judgment.

Why do all of the models look like they are in "black face" with the same skin tone?

Black beauty come in all hues so the photo gets a failing grade for "inclusion" and "diversity". I think it would have been more interesting and powerful with all races - Blacks, Caucasians (I include Hispanics in this group) and Asians. Now, that would be a photo with a great statement.

Yes people buy fashion magazines for "statements"

R3 I hate to say it but as I was scrolling down, I thought this

was about The Walking Dead (I watch all of the shows).

The girls actually seem to be having fun at the shoot

They were lured in with the promise of food, they were very excited to be eating.

It's true that even in Africa most people aren't that dark. Those features are common only among a few select tribes.

Have these woman been collected from the tribe of "Blue Nubians"?

It’s terrible. They made them appear as robots. The background and clothes should be light and bold colors. Zero contrast here. Dull and drab.

I'm glad I never buy British Vogue but this thread gave me an excuse to do some first-class bitching against Wokeness.

A couple of Dataloungers here have given an anemic grudging approval of this cover.

But no one seems to have expressed full on admiration for it.

It reminds me of those controversial American magazine covers where black newsmakers were stained a darker shade to denote something sinister. I feel the fashion is lost here in a muddy, inky smear..

British Vogue: annihilating the distinction between Aesthetics and Politics, one Woke cover at a time

Vogue is a great magazine. The American edition just sucks. Time to sack Wintour. As much as I HATE cancel culture I'm counting on them to do the job.

Why did someone start a new thread on this?

R170 Shit stirring. Someone seems to think this cover is a great jumping off point to push posters into making racist comments. This thread got derailed with talk about fashion, so they're trying again. A lot of the first posts were from OP on this one.

Aesthetics is important, that’s why we should talk about it.

And no, r171, I didn’t start this thread to ‘push posters into making racist comments’. I posted a lot initially in order to both provide the necessary images as well as contexts, e.g. info regarding the Editor and the Photographer, so that people can have an intelligent discussion, even for those without a fashion background.

So take your racist projection and shove it up where the sun doesn’t shine

So wait. The models aren't really that dark and have been shopped by the photographer? That's fucked up, if true.

[quote] So wait. The models aren't really that dark and have been shopped by the photographer? That's fucked up, if true.

Check out the video at r160. None of these women have a skin tone anything close to what is portrayed on the cover. They’ve been shopped to look like Zwarte Piet.

[quote] That's fucked up,

Yes, R173, because 'dark' equals 'bad'.

r169 They'll never sack her. She's too much of snake and she funds too many organizations that would protest on her behalf. In fact, some did. . . after a similar controversy, already thin models being edited to be even more thin, she sacrificed her staff in the dept and published a few articles to their liking, so all was forgiven and quickly forgotten. Not that it wouldn't have been even without action because she supports the right politics, has the right connections and has a public pulpit that reaches millions. Once she retires or dies, then expect the claws and stories to come out.

It's been such a while, I wonder if DL has any ongoing threads about her still? The rumours were ever so entertaining.

[quote] edward_enninful Verified Our triumphant February 2022 @BritishVogue cover was revealed last week and is already one of British Vogue’s most-liked covers of all time on Instagram. I am so proud to see these women are inspiring you the same way they have me. See the full story in the new issue, on newsstands today, and click the link in my bio to read @FunmiFetto’s story in full.

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[quote] edward_enninful's profile picture edward_enninful Verified With a new generation of models in the spotlight, fashion is at last embracing what it is to be truly global. For an industry long criticised for its lack of diversity, as well as for perpetuating beauty standards seen through a Eurocentric lens, this change is momentous. @FunmiFetto talks to some of those redrawing the map in the February issue of @BritishVogue - including @AnokYai, pictured here in a full @Schiaparelli look by @DanielRoseberry. See the full story in the new issue, and click the link in my bio to read in full.

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The article:

[quote] British Vogue’s Momentous All African Cover Spotlights 9 Young Women Redefining What It Is To Be A Model With a new generation of African models in the spotlight, fashion is at last embracing what it is to be truly global. Funmi Fetto talks to some of those redrawing the map. Photographs by Rafael Pavarotti. Styling by Edward Enninful.

Truly global= black aryanism?

You can barely see them. The background color doesn't do the models any favors.

It's an ugly cover. The editor will have to go. Cries of racism will rend the air. A low key employee will be promoted. A high profile appointment will be made 3 years after that.

[quote] If Munroe Bergdorf did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

The "Munroe Bergdorf" is completely artificial.

'Society is everything I hate.'

'I demand an apology.'

Bergdorf = fake hair and fake breasts but is there a penis there?

[quote] I appreciate the more diverse casting of Edward's Vogue, but I find it odd that south Asian women are rarely part of the mix when they represent a larger minority in Britain (and the Commonwealth itself) and have more buying power.

You find it odd that Asians weren't featured in a cover shoot for an article specifically about African models and their current popularity? Really?

[quote] British Vogue’s Momentous All African Cover Spotlights 9 Young Women Redefining What It Is To Be A Model With a new generation of African models in the spotlight, fashion is at last embracing what it is to be truly global. Funmi Fetto talks to some of those redrawing the map. Photographs by Rafael Pavarotti. Styling by Edward Enninful.

You don't appreciate diversity. You appreciate pitting nonwhites against each other.

The current issue features a cover story about 9 African models. March 2018 featured a cover story about 9 diverse models.

That Munroe bitch looks like a Bratz doll. So fake. Not attractive at all. Vogue really is scraping the bottom .

[quote] Bergdorf = fake hair and fake breasts but is there a penis there?

Yes Munroe is MTF. Munroe has also lightened their skin significantly since they were a child. “White supremacy” indeed 🙄

GaGa did pitch black ten years ago.

I find British Vogue reductive.

[quote]Was it someone’s JOB to pick out the darkest-skinned women they could find? [quote]That’s as distasteful as choosing women for their light complexions.

This kind of statement drives me bonkers! It shows how pathological the obsession with not offending anyone over race has become. It's getting as bad as Germany in 1938!

Why EVER NOT choose models for the shades of their skin?! Fashion is all about novelty and visual delight, and if you can find a bunch of inky black bitches, or snowy white ones, or even better still -- a clutch of English boys with that delicate yellow undertint that sends DL's Yellow Skin Troll into pre-orgasmic ecstacy –– why the fuck wouldn't you?!! And if it offends Woke wackos, just kick them up the kyber!

r190's commercial looks like an ad for American Horror Story:

[quote]They’ve been shopped to look like Zwarte Piet.

So turning turning white models whiter for an arty fashion spread is fine, but turning black models blacker for the same arty reason is crime? Bitch, please! Talk about dog whistle Wokey racism. Some people need a walk in fresh air. They're so hypersensitised to take offense at ANYTHING and everything it's a wonder they can even function.

[QUOTE] You find it odd that Asians weren't featured in a cover shoot for an article specifically about African models and their current popularity? Really?

R187 My comment wasn't specific to this issue but rather to entirety of his editorial reign.

Been there, done that.

R195 That looks like cultural appropriation from Grace Jones.

R195 That looks like cultural appropriation from Nosferatu.

Next month's cover on British Vogue--

Actually Janet was doing a similar aesthetics. In 1997.

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the happy couple

^They don't look very happy.

[quote] The new British Vogue cover featuring all-African models

Is this guy some kind of privileged gay who hangs out with dukes and duchesses.

And is he a misogynist trying to make these models look as ugly as possible?

R15 forget about the skin colour. Get the one in the orange outfit something to eat, stat! Fucking scary.

Do y’all recognize her?

Answer…

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That doesn't even look like her. Very pretty, but generic.

[quote]Is this guy some kind of privileged gay who hangs out with dukes and duchesses.

What do you think the Editor of English Vogue does, darling? It's not Communist Monthly.

The level of hate shown in the Daily Mail reader comments shows how far there is to go, and how much it enrages bigots to have homosexuality thrust in their faces – especially privileged homosexuals. That's almost blood vessel bursting. GOOD.

It's pretty brave to have a cover where all the models are the same race and skin tone, also they aren't fat, disabled, or trans. I think they look so elegant and powerful sitting next to each other. whoever was in charge creatively clearly values good aesthetics. A cover so beautiful like this will be rare in the age of "Woke" and the racists who hate that they're black can go f themselves.

I’d have guessed this was Beyoncé

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That image required 75 minutes worth of Photoshopping.

Upcoming Memoirs

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No gigantic asses?