Vogue: First All Black Issue
Written by chameleonfridays on July 6th, 2008Vogue, albeit the Italian version, has broken down fashion barriers with it’s July 08 issue. The magazine has taken the unprecedented step of only featuring black models.
Italian Vogue has broken one of the fashion world’s taboos by featuring only black models in its July 2008 issue.
The pictures by New-York based Steven Meisel, one of the most successful photographers in the industry, fill about 100 pages of the magazine, and are accompanied by features on black women in the arts and entertainment.
Meisel, who worked with Madonna on her controversial coffee-table book, Sex, brought several of the black fashion world’s big names aboard for the issue. He photographed Naomi Campbell, Iman, Tyra Banks, Liya Kebede, Jourdan Dunn, Alek Wek and Pat Cleveland, among others.
Italian Vogue’s editor, Franca Sozzani, said her decision was influenced by the New York group, as well as by Barack Obama’s success in the US presidential primaries. Full Article
Lets hope this is the start of a new approach to the media’s categorisation of beauty. Roll on the plus size models (who incidentally are classed as any model over a UK size 10).
